Ken Spurgeon is an Assistant Professor of History and Theater at Friends University. He has spent over 25 years teaching at the High School and College level.

Mr. Spurgeon is the author of “A Kansas Soldier at War:  The Civil War Lives and Letters of Christian and Elise Dubach Isely,” published by The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2013.

From 2004 until 2018, he was the Executive Director of Lone Chimney Films, Inc., a not-for-profit documentary film company dedicated to films about the Midwest. He has written or co-written and directed four documentaries. The last two films (Home on the Range and The Road to Valhalla) have earned the Western Heritage Award (Wrangler) at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 2018 and 2015. The previous three films have also aired on various PBS stations throughout the Midwest.

He recently served as the writer and director for the film Sod and Stubble based on the classic tale by the same name written by John Ise with Von Rothenberger. Sod and Stubble is now airing on Apple TV and Amazon Prime. Spurgeon is currently in production on his current film, Under the Painted Sky due to be released late 2026.