Academic Director: Stephanie Rolph
Stephanie Rolph joined SHECP in July 2017 as its first academic director. She is Associate Professor of History and Director of Experiential Learning and Strategic Initiatives at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. A native of Mississippi, Stephanie received her Ph.D. from Mississippi State University in 2009. An active scholar of the post-1945 American South, her work has appeared in The Right Side of the Sixties, Journal of Women’s History, and Journal of Southern History. Her first book, Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council, 1954-1989 (Louisiana State University Press, 2018) was recognized as the 2019 Book of the Year by the Mississippi Historical Society. She has also been awarded the Humanities Scholar Award by the Mississippi Humanities Council, and the Rabbi Perry Nussbaum Civil Justice Award. rolphsc@shepherdconsortium.org
Alumni Engagement Specialist: Danielle Breidung Quat
Danielle Breidung Quat is a graduate of Washington and Lee University and an alumna of the SHECP program. During the summer of 2011, she completed a SHECP/Kemper internship at Mujeres Latinas en Acción, a Chicago-based organization that strives to empower Latinas through service and advocacy. In Lexington, Danielle was a Bonner Scholar, a regular volunteer at the Campus Kitchen Project, an English tutor with English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), and a Spanish teacher/volunteer coordinator at Fairfield Elementary School with the Rockbridge Teacher Education Consortium. In 2011, Danielle conducted a community-based research project about Latinos’ access to social services in Rockbridge County, VA that informed her poverty and human capability studies capstone. Since graduating in December 2012, Danielle has been busy exporting superfruits from the Brazilian Amazon, serving with AmeriCorps VISTA, consulting nonprofit organizations in South Carolina, participating in fellowships in Asia, visiting all 50 U.S. states, and pursuing additional education in the fields of international higher education, social work, and nonprofit management. Danielle is passionate about empowering women and girls. She is currently a member of Wellspring Living’s Young Professionals Board, a CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocate for Children), and a volunteer at the Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire. Danielle previously served as president of the Rotary Club of Bluffton. danielle@shepherdconsortium.org
Governing Board
Chair: Kristin Harper, Birmingham-Southern College, kharper@bsc.edu
Immediate Chair: Brian Doyle, Ph.D., Marymount University, brian.doyle@marymount.edu
Vice Chair: Mindy Wilson, Centre College, mindy.wilson@centre.edu
Treasurer: Atin Basu Choudhary, Ph.D., Virginia Military Institute, BasuChoudharyA@vmi.edu
Richard Cancelmo, Bridgeway Capital Management, dcancelmo@bridgeway.comÂ
Tim Diette, Ph.D., Washington and Lee University, diettet@wlu.edu
Margaret Finucane, Ph.D., John Carroll University, mfinucane@jcu.edu
Andrew Hogue, Ph.D., Baylor University, andrew_hogue@baylor.edu
Andrew Kumpuris, MD, Cardiologist, Little Rock, AR, dkumpuris@aol.com
Matthew Lawrence, Ph.D., Middlebury College, lawrence@middlebury.edu
Tiffanie Spencer, University of Vermont, tiffanie.spencer@uvm.edu
Sara Worley, Ph.D., Juniata College, worley@juniata.edu
SHECP Council
Nina Banks, Ph.D., Bucknell University, nbanks@bucknell.edu
Atin Basu Choudhary, Ph.D., Virginia Military Institute, BasuChoudharyA@vmi.edu
Kevin Blair, Ph.D., Niagara University, blairkd@niagara.edu
Lauren Bowen, Ph.D., Juniata College, bowenl@juniata.edu
Katy Gray Brown, Ph.D., Manchester University, klgraybrown@manchester.edu
Richard Cancelmo, Bridgeway Capital Management, dcancelmo@bridgeway.comÂ
Joel Clark, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, jclark24@wisc.edu
Larry Connolly, Connolly Family Foundation, jlconnolly9092@gmail.com
Kim Cosgrove, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, cosgrove@kennedykrieger.org
Brian Doyle, Ph.D., Marymount University, brian.doyle@marymount.edu
Cindy Ferguson, University of Lynchburg, ferguson_cd@lynchburg.edu
Margaret Finucane, Ph.D., John Carroll University, mfinucane@jcu.edu
David Gandolfo, Ph.D., Furman University, david.gandolfo@furman.edu
Kristin Harper, Birmingham-Southern College, kharper@bsc.edu
Sean Herring, Ph.D., Missouri State University, seanherring@
Andrew Hogue, Ph.D., Baylor University, andrew_hogue@baylor.edu
Elyssa Klipsch, Millsaps College, klipsem@millsaps.edu
Brooke Krause, Ph.D., The College of Wooster, bkrause@wooster.edu
Andrew Kumpuris, MD, Cardiologist, Little Rock, AR, dkumpuris@aol.com
Matthew Lawrence, Ph.D., Middlebury College, lawrence@middlebury.edu
Connie Snyder Mick, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, cmick@nd.edu
Cathy McConnell, Ph.D., The College of Wooster, cmcconnell@wooster.edu
Kelly Nichols, Woollard Nichols & Associates, Austin, TX, kelly@woollardnichols.com
Rebecca Todd Peters, Ph.D., Elon University, rpeters@elon.edu
Howard Pickett, Ph.D, Washington & Lee University, picketthy@wlu.edu
Stephen J. Scanlan, Ph.D., Ohio University, scanlans@ohio.edu
Tiffanie Spencer, Ph.D., University of Vermont, tiffanie.spencer@uvm.edu
Alan Tinkler, Ph.D., Missouri State University, AlanTinkler@MissouriState.edu
Christina Willemsen, Hamilton College, cwillems@hamilton.edu
Sara Whipple, Virginia Military Institute, whippless@vmi.edu
Mindy Wilson, Centre College, mindy.wilson@centre.edu
Andrea Woodward, Ph.D., Berea College, woodwarda@berea.edu
Ana “Monica” Yepes-Rios, MD, Â Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, yepesra@ccf.org
Updated September 20, 2021