Robert Edward Bachman, '01
B.A., Ph.D., Rice University
Professor of Chemistry
Daniel Backlund, '89
B.S., Bradley University; M.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts
Professor of Theatre Arts and Director of the Sewanee Summer Seminar
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Carl Albert Bardi, '08
B.A., North Carolina State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Associate Professor of Psychology
Nicole Bella Barenbaum, '90
A.B., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Professor of Psychology
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Helen V. Bateman, '03
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Psychology
Julie Kay Berebitsky, '97
B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., George Washington University; Ph.D., Temple University
Professor of History
Sabbatical Advent 2010
Nancy Jane Berner, '92
B.A., M.S., University of Idaho; Ph.D., Stanford University
William Henderson Professor of Biology
Margaret Elaine Gompper Bonds, '80
B.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
Professor of Spanish
John Lawson Bordley Jr., '70
B.S., Davidson College; Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University
F.B. Williams Professor of Chemistry
Nancy Mishoe Brennecke, '95
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., City University of New York
Associate Professor of Art History
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Charles Donald Brockett, '79
B.A., Whittier College; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Biehl Professor of International Studies
Sid Brown, '99
B.A., Emory University; M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., University of Virginia
Associate Professor of Religion
Alexander M. Bruce, '09
B.A., The Unversity of the South; M.A., Ph.D., The University of Georgia
Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Associate Dean of Students
Larry Edward Carden, '82
B.A., DePauw University; B.D., Yale University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Religion
Stephen Paul Carl, '04
B.S.E.E., Rice University; M.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., Wright State University
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
James Robert Carlson, '03
B.M., Central Washington University; M.M., New England Conservatory; Ph.D., Duke University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
Thomas Macnab Carlson, '70
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of English
Daniel Clay Carter, '10
B.S., Middle Tennessee State University; M.P.A., American University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Post-Doctoral Fellow of Teacher Education and Environmental Studies
Nona Louise Carter, '09
B.A., The University of Florida; M.A., The University of Pennsylvania
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Catherine Elizabeth Cavagnaro, '93
B.S., Santa Clara University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Mathematics
Manuel Alberto Chinchilla, '09
B.A., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Gregory Thomas Clark, '89
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Queens College, City University of New York; M.F.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor of Art History
Sabbatical Advent 2010
William Ellis Clarkson, '73
B.A., Yale University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professor of English
Christopher H. Conn, '97
B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Northern Illinois University; Ph.D., Syracuse University
Professor of Philosophy
Sabbatical Advent 2010
Marcia Mary Cook, '94
B.A., University of Iowa; M.Ed., The Johns Hopkins University; M.F.A., University of Tennessee
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
Warren D. Hoss Craft, '98
B.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology and Mathematics and Computer Science
Virginia Ottley Craighill, '00
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of Georgia
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Frederick Hailey Croom, '71
B.S., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of Mathematics
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Jennifer Kay Matthews, '00
B.C.A., University of North Carolina, Charlotte; M.F.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
John M. McCardell Jr., '10
A.B., Washington and Lee; Ph.D., Harvard University
Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History
Stephanie Ann McCarter, '08
B.A., University of Tennessee Knoxville; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Assistant Professor of Classical Languages
Christopher Michael McDonough, '02
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Associate Professor of Classical Languages
Carmen Elena McEvoy, '95
B.A., University of the Sacred Heart; M.L.A., Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Professor of History
Deborah Anne McGrath, '99
B.A., University of Wisconsin; M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida
Associate Professor of Biology
Gayle Elaine McKeen, '93
B.A., University of Massachusetts; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Political Science
Leave of Absence Advent Semester
Jennifer Davis Michael, '95
B.A., The University of the South; B.A., University of Oxford; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Professor of English
Deon Terrell Miles, '02
B.A., Wabash College; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Stephen Ray Miller, '95
B.A., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Associate Professor of Music
Kathryn Oliver Mills, '97
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Oxford University; Ph.D., Yale University
Associate Professor of French
Yasmeen Mohiuddin, '81
B.A., M.A., Karachi University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics
Sabbatical Advent 2010
Andrew Paul Moser, '03
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Donna F. Murdock, '03
B.A., Hunter College; M.A., Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies; Ph.D., Emory University
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Jeanne-Marie Musto, '08
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A.,The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts; Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Marilyn R. Nelson, '10
B.A., University of California, Davis; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Professor of English
Richard Allan O'Connor, '78
B.A., The College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Biehl Professor of International Studies
James William Osborne Jr., '10
B.E., Vanderbilt University; M.B.A, Emory University
Visiting Instructor of Economics
Robert A. Ott Jr., '07
B.A., Bellarmine University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland
Assistant Professor of Economics
John Raymond Palisano, '93
B.S., Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Professor of Biology
Tam K. Parker, '00
B.A., Macalester College; M.Div., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Emory University
Associate Professor of Religion
Chris Parrish, '88
B.A., St. Mary's University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Charles Richard Perry, '74
A.B., Davidson College; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History
James Franklin Peterman, '80
A.B., Kenyon College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Philosophy
James Robert Peters, '84
B.A., Northern Illinois University; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Professor of Philosophy
Randolph Stuart Peterson, '89
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Professor of Physics
Charles Samuel Peyser Jr., '68
A.B., Hamilton College; M.A., Ph.D., Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Professor of Psychology
George Wilkinson Poe, '87
A.B., Davidson College; M.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D., Duke University
Class of 1961 Chair of the College and Professor of French
Rongson Pongdee, '10
B.S. Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., Texas A & M University
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
James Gregory Pond, '99
B.A., The University of the South; M.F.A., The University of Georgia
Associate Professor of Art
Donald Brandreth Potter Jr., '80
B.A., Williams College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
Annie Overton Brinkley Snowden Professor of Geology
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Raymond Mark Preslar, '91
B.A., Arizona State University; M.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D., University of Washington
Associate Professor of Russian
William McGowen Priestley, '67
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Gaston Swindell Bruton Professor of Mathematics
Wyatt Prunty, '89
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Carlton Professor of English and Director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference
Emily Puckette, '01
B.A., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Julie N. Püttgen, '06
B.A., Yale University; M.F.A., Georgia State University
Assistant Professor of Art & Art History
Pre-tenure Sabbatical 2010-2011
Laurie Anne Ramsey, '92
B.A., The College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Associate Professor of French
Stephen Boykin Raulston, '98
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Professor of Spanish
Rebecca Celeste Ray, '98
B.A., University of Florida; M.A., University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor of Anthropology
Sabbatical 2010-2011
William Wood Register, '92
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Professor of History
John Vincent Reishman, '69
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Jesse Spalding Professor of English Literature and Director of Summer School
Dale Edward Richardson, '73
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Princeton University
Nick B. Williams Professor of English
Leslie Buchman Richardson, '80
B.A., Rhodes College; M.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Middlebury College
Instructor of Italian
Susan Janet Ridyard, '89
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Professor of History and Director of the Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium
Houston Bryan Roberson, '97
B.A., Mars Hill College; M.A., Wake Forest University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of History
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Nicholas Edward Roberts, '09
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., University of Chicago; Ph.D., New York University
Assistant Professor of History
David Roby, '10
B.F.A., North Carolina School of the Arts; MFA, Illinois State University
Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Matthew Brian Rudd, '10
B.S., Wake Forest University; M.S., University of Chicago; Ph.D., University of Utah
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Donald Charles Rung, '87
A.B., Harvard College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Associate Professor of French
Susan Kay Rupert, '78
B.M., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; M.M., Northwestern University
Instructor in Music
Marc St-Pierre, '06
B.Sc., Universite de Sherbrooke; Ph.D., Brown University
Assistant Professor of Economics
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Ruth Sánchez Imizcoz, '95
Licenciatura en Geografia e Historia, Universidad de Valencia; B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Professor of Spanish
Betsy A. Sandlin, '04
B.A., Morehead State University; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., The University of North Carolina
Associate Professor of Spanish
Sabbatical 2010-2011
Paige L. Schneider, '00
B.A., University of Florida; M.A., Florida Atlantic University; Ph.D., Emory University
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Vicki Sells, '00
B.A., Antioch College; M.S., University of Tennessee; Ed.D., University of Tennessee
Associate Provost for Information Technology Services and University Librarian
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education
Bethel V. Sharma, '09
B.S., University of Southern Mississippi; Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Stephen Allen Shaver, '87
B.S., North Carolina State University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Professor of Geology
John Hisashi Shibata, '98
B.S., University of Washington; Ph.D, University of Washington
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Steven Wyck Shrader, '76
B.A., The College of William and Mary; M.M., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Professor of Music
Elizabeth A. Skomp, '05
B.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of London
Assistant Professor of Russian
Charles Kenneth Smith, '98
B.S., Colorado State University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Florida
Professor of Forestry and Geology
Gerald LaFayette Smith, '69
B.A., University of Richmond; B.D., Ph.D., Duke University
Professor of Religion and Marshal of the University Faculties
Robert M. Ayres Jr. Distinguished University Chair
Peter Thomas Smith, '82
A.B., College of the Holy Cross; M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Professor of Theatre Arts
Sabbatical Easter 2011
Thomas Dean Spaccarelli, '74
Diploma de Estudios Hispánicos, Universidad de Granada; A.B., University of Illinois at Chicago Circle; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Professor of Spanish
Alyssa R. Summers, '07
B.A., Lawrence University; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Assistant Professor of Biology
Richard G. Summers, '01
B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of the College
Benito Theodoro Szapiro, '94
M.S., Ph.D., University of Buenos Aires
Professor of Physics
Katherine Christina Theyson, '10
B.A., North Carolina State University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Assistant Professor of Economics
Diane Thiel, '10
B.A., M.F.A., Brown University
Visiting Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence for the Environmental Institute
Jeffrey Parker Thompson, '09
B.A., Birmingham-Southern College; M.A., New York University; Ph.D., Emory University
Assistant Professor in Art and Art History
Eric Thomas Thurman, ‘07
B.S., Cumberland College; M.Div., Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary; M. Phil., Ph.D., Drew University
Assistant Prorfessor of Religion
Scott Torreano, '93
B.S., Michigan Technological University; M.S., North Carolina State University; Ph.D., University of Georgia
Professor of Forestry
Virginia Lauryl Tucker, '09
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Assistant Professor of English
Daniel Breck Walker, ‘07
B.B.A., University of Texas; M.B.A., J.D., Stanford University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Merle Wallace, '96
B.A., Temple University; M.A., University of Illinois, Springfield; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Anthropology and Director of Teacher Education
Kelly Joan Whitmer, '10
B.A., Colgate University; M.A., Western Washington University; Ph.D., University of British Columbia
Assistant Professor of History
E. Douglass Williams, '99
B.A., The University of the South; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Frank W. Wilson Professor of Economics
John Charles Willis, '91
B.A., Baylor University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
Professor of History
Michael Kevin Wilson, '05
B.A, Vanderbilt University; M.F.A., University of Florida
Creative Writing Administrator and Visiting Instructor of English
Scott Howard Wilson, '94
B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor of Political Science
Jessica Wohl, '10
B.F.A., The Kansas City Art Institute; M.F.A., The University of Georgia
Visiting Instructor of Art and Art History
Wei Yang, '08
B.A., Sun Yat-Sen University; M.Phil., Yale University
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Chinese
Karen Pao-Ying Yu, '96
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor of Psychology
Reinhard Konrad Zachau, '78
Staatsexamen, University of Hamburg; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Professor of German
Kirk S. Zigler, '04
B.A., Kenyon College; Ph.D., Duke University
Associate Professor of Biology
EMERITUS
Laurence Richards Alvarez
B.S., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Henry Frank Arnold Jr.
B.A., The University of the South; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Jesse Spalding Professor of English Literature, Emeritus
Alfred Scott Bates
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Professor of French and Theatre Arts, Emeritus
Robert George Benson, '79
B.A., M.A., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of English, Emeritus
James Edward Carlos
B.S., Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., Catholic University of America; Ph.D., Ohio University
Professor of Art, Emeritus
Marcia Shonnard Clarkson
B.S. William Smith College
Lecturer in Computer Science, Emerita
James Winston Clayton
B.A., New York University; B.D., S.T.M., Union Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of Religion, Emeritus
William Tomphson Cocke III
B.A., The University of the South; Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Jesse Spalding Professor of English Literature, Emeritus
Henrietta Brown Croom
A.B., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of Biology, Emerita
James Thomas Cross
A.B., Brown University; M.S., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Tennessee
Gaston S. Bruton Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Joseph David Cushman
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University
Francis S. Houghteling Professor of American History, Emeritus
Mary Susan Livingstone Cushman
A.B., Wellsley College; Ed.M., Harvard University
Lecturer of Education; Dean of Students, Emerita
Sherwood Forrest Ebey
B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
John Francis Flynn
B.A., Boston College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Professor of History, Emeritus
Marvin Elias Goodstein
B.S., New York University; Ph.D., Cornell University
Professor of Economics, Emeritus
William Benton Guenther
A.B., Oberlin College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester
F.B. Williams Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
Patricia Ruth Heck
B.A., San Jose State University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
Robert Larry Keele
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Alfred Walter Negley Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
Edward Bleakley King
B.A., The University of the South; B.D., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; M.A., Florida State University; Ph.D., Duke University
Professor of History, Emeritus
Arthur Joseph Knoll
A.B., Bates College; A.M., New York University; Ph.D., Yale University
David E. Underdown Professor of European History, Emeritus
James Norman Lowe
B.S., Antioch College; Ph.D., Stanford University
F.B. Williams Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus
David Wayne Lumpkins
B.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Professor of Russian, Emeritus
James Waring deBernieres McCrady
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of French, Emeritus
Martha McCrory
B.M., University of Michigan; M.A., University of Rochester
Professor of Music, Emerita, and Director of the Sewanee Summer Music Center, Emerita
Maria-Jesus Mayans Natal
Bachiller, University of Seville; M.A., University of Texas; Ph.D., University of Florida
Professor of Spanish, Emerita
Eric Woodfin Naylor
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
William R. Kenan Professor of Spanish, Emeritus
William Brown Patterson
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., University of Oxford; M.Div., Episcopal Divinity School; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Francis S. Houghteling Professor of History, Emeritus
George Shuford Ramseur
B.A., Elon College; M.Ed., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Clay Campbell Ross Jr.
B.S., University of Kentucky; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Joseph Martin Running
B.Mus., St. Olaf College; D.Mus., Florida State University
Professor of Music, Emeritus
Jacqueline Thibault Schaefer
Licence ès lettres, Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures, Université de Caen; Agrégation de l'Université, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Professor of French, Emerita
John Douglas Seiters
B.A., The University of the South; M.A., Ph.D., Florida State University
Class of 1961 Chair of the College and Professor of Classical Languages, Emeritus
Ansel Miree Sharp
B.A., Howard College; M.A., University of Virginia; Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Frank W. Wilson Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus
Barclay Ward
A.B., Hamilton College; M.A., The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Alfred Negley Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
Thomas R. Ward Jr.
B.A., The University of the South; B.A., M.A., Oxford University; M.Div., Virginia Theological Seminary
Former Instructor in English and University Chaplain
Herbert Stephenson Wentz
A.B., University of North Carolina; S.T.B., The General Theological Seminary; M.A., University of Oxford; Ph.D., University of Exeter
Professor of Religion, Emeritus
Samuel Ruthven Williamson
B.A., Tulane University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Professor of History and Robert M. Ayres Distinguished University Chair, Emeritus
Vice Chancellor, Emeritus
Harry Clay Yeatman
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
William R. Kenan Professor of Biology, Emeritus
Historiographers of The University
Samuel Ruthven Williamson
Historiographer of the University of the South
Gerald Lafayette Smith
Associate Historiographer of the University of the South
