John Stanley Oyer (1925-1998) was an Anabaptist scholar and editor.
Oyer finished his B.A. degree at Goshen College 1951 and started a master's program in history at Harvard University. He wrote his doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago. In 1955 he began teaching in the Goshen College history department for the next 38 years.[1]
Oyer was the editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review from 1966 to '74 and from 1977 to '92. He was director of the Mennonite Historical Library at Goshen College from 1975 to 1987.[1]