Our Leadership
2009-2010
Officers
President: Cathy Bao Bean—author of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Memoir and Manual and co-author with Dongdong Chen of The Chopsticks-Fork Principle, A Bilingual Reader; previously a philosophy teacher, presently an aerobics instructor.
Vice President: Janet Ray Edwards—Senior Academic Adviser, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, (emeritus); educator: middle school through graduate level teaching and administration; Ph.D. Harvard University GSAS, English and American Languages and Letters.
Secretary: David Hoekema— Academic Dean and Professor of Political Philosophy, Aesthetics and African Philosophy at Calvin College; former Exec. Director of the American Philosophical Assoc
Treasurer: Amy Lampazzi —Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University; former instructor in flight controllers and propulsion systems on the space shuttle at NASA's Johnson Space Center, University of Houston at Clear Lake, and several middle and high schools.
Board of Directors
Eric Bain-Selbo—Associate Professor and head of Dept. of Religion and Philosophy at Western Kentucky University; Ph.D. University of Chicago.
Amy Berger—Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science (Geology), Heidelberg University.
Walter Blass—retired Director-Strategic Planning at AT&T headquarters, Guilford College Board of Trustees; Visiting "Best Professor of the Year" at Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France.
Allen Dunn—Editor of Soundings, An Interdisciplinary Journal; professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of TN.
Janet Edwards—[see above]
David Hoekema—[see above]
Nancy Jones—board member of Global Health Action (Atlanta GA), North Carolina Wesleyan College and on Preparation for Ministry Committee of Presbytery of New Hope; B.A. from Duke University; mother of three “SVHE Brats.”
Cynthia Magistro—Professor of Psychology, Seton Hill University and approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Allison Moore—Episcopal priest and rector of The Church of the Good Shepherd in Fort Lee, NJ; author of Clergy Moms: A Survival Guide to Balancing Family and Congregation; Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics from Boston University; member of SVHE since 1982 because “It's the community of friends who nurture, challenge, and help sustain my spiritual and intellectual life.”
Daniel Sack—administrator at the University of Chicago Divinity School; author of Whitebread Protestants: Food and Religion in American Culture and Moral Re-Armament: The Reinventions of an American Religious Movement; ordained minister in the United Church of Christ; a Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.
David Tabb Stewart—Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Religions at California State University, Long Beach and director of the Summer Workshops in College Teaching (SWCT) for SVHE; formerly on faculty of Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, and Southwestern University; Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Amy White—Journalist, former Outreach Coordinator, Center on Religion & the Professions at University of Missouri.
Associates
- Elizabeth Minnich - has served higher education in different roles at a variety of liberal arts institutions as well as through her writing, speaking, special projects, board memberships, and consulting.
- Peter Paris - Princeton Theological Seminary’s Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Liaison with the Princeton University African American Studies Program.
Gregory Sapp – Stetson University, Professor of Religious Studies has published in the area of Christian theology and philosophy and has delivered invited and refereed papers at national conferences on the relationship of religion to popular culture, as well as on the separation of church and state, especially with regard to Creationism and Intelligent Design. He has also written on Just War theory and conflict resolution. He holds the Hal S. Marchman Chair of Civic and Social Responsibility.
Committees
Program chaired by Eric Bain-Selbo and Amy Berger.
Development chaired by David Hoekema.
Projects chaired by David Tabb Stewart.
Communication chaired by Allen Dunn.
Membership chaired by Janet Edwards.
Nominating chaired by Nancy Jones.
Finance chaired by Amy Lampazzi.
Staff
Executive Director: Marvin A. Kaiser—Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Portland State University; formerly Director of the Center for Rural Initiatives and the Community Service Program at Kansas State University
Associate Executive Director: Robert A. Spivey— Senior Associate and Ombudsman for The Florida State University Foundation; former President of Randolph Macon Woman’s College and the VA Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Associate Executive Director: George Karnezis—largely retired college teacher currently writing fiction and continuing study of rhetoric, composition, hermeneutics, and the perilous state of humanistic college-level teaching. Other occupations: bulimic reader and weekend farmer.
Business Manager: Pam Montgomery—former financial officer of the Archdiocese of Portland; B.A. in Performing Arts from University of Portland.
Administrative Assistant: Renee Devereux—formerly in software sales & international marketing.
With gratitude, we acknowledge the invaluable leadership of our former presidents:
Pat Barnes-McConnell—Director of Bean/Cowpea CRSP, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
Joel Cunningham—President, Vice Chancellor and Professor of Mathematics of Sewanee: The University of the South; former President of Susquehanna University; chair of Appalachian College Assoc.
David Hoekema—[see above]
James T. Laney—former U.S. Ambassador to Korea, President of Emory University, and Dean of Candler School of Theology.
John Maguire—President Emeritus of Claremont University Consortium & Graduate University; Director/Senior Fellow, Institute for Democratic Renewal/Project Change, Claremont, CA; President Emeritus, College at Old Westbury, State University of New York.
J. Alfred Martin, Jr.—former professor at Union Theological Seminary.
John Nason—former President of Swarthmore College.
Virginia B. Smith—former Acting President of Mills College; President emerita of Vassar College; Director of the Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education (FIPSE); President of the Board of the Educational Testing Service.
Robert A. Spivey[see above]
Jon Wiant— Senior Visiting Fellow with the Intelligence and Security Academy, and a consultant with the Institute for Excellence in Public Leadership; Adjunct Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University; decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal from Porter Good of the CIA, and the Career Achievement Award from Secretary Colin Powell; and commands an army of more than 6000 toy soldiers.
Soundings, An Interdisciplinary Journal editors:
- Sallie McFague TeSelle
- Ralph Norman
- Allen Dunn