[2] Donnermeyer's first appointment was as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, with primary responsibilities as a state specialist in community development.
[3] In 1999 he became assistant professor in the Department of Human and Community Resource Development at the same university, where the rural sociology program was moved.
JPAC is now co-sponsored by the OSU libraries, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, the Amish and Mennonite Heritage Center in Berlin, Ohio, and "Amish America", a blog produced by Erik Wesner.
In the Autumn Semester of 2022, Donnermeyer became a visiting fellow at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies in Elizabethtown.
His fellow lecture was entitled: "Keeping Track of Settlement and Population Growth of the Amish in North America.