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Silvia Rode
Dr. Silvia Rode
Professor of German
Director of the Center for Communal Studies
Assistant Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Affiliated Faculty of Communal Studies
Contact: 812-465-7026
Liberal Arts Center 3009

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Board of Advisors

Dr. Franziska Bechtel (2023)
Research Associate, Institut fuer Theologie – Diakonie – Ethik, AGAPLESION gAG, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

franziska-bechtel@gmx.de

Ms. Wendy Bredhold (2026)
Senior Campaign  Representative, Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign, Indiana & Kentucky (USI '98)
wendybredhold@gmail.com
Dr. Gregory W. Brown (2025)
Educator (ret.)
drgwbrown@aol.com
Ms. Jennifer Greene (2022)
Archivist, University of Southern Indiana (USI BA '03, MALS '09)
Office: 812-464-1832
Dr. Donald E. Janzen (2023)
Consultant (ret.)
don.janzen@yahoo.com
Dr. Jane Johansen (2023)
Professor Emerita of Business Communications (ret.), University of Southern Indiana
Secretary

812jjohanse@gmail.com
Dr. Joshua Lockyer (2025)
Professor of Anthropology, Arkansas Tech University
Office: 479-356-2168
jlockyer@atu.edu
Dr. Susan Matarese (2023)
Professor Emerita of Political Science and Director of the Honors Program, University of Louisville
502-852-3315
502-852-6831
smmata01@louisville.edu
Dr. Carol Medlicott (2026)
Associate Professor of Geography
Northern Kentucky University
Office: 859-572-5316
medlicottc1@nku.edu

Mr. G. Graham Perry III (2025)
Tennessee Historical Society
Columbia State Community College

615-741-8934 (Tenn. Hist. Soc.)
615-454-8539

ggpiii@yahoo.com
grahamperry@tn.com

Dr. Donald Pitzer
Emeritus Professor of History and Director of the Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana
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Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland (2026)
Associate Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana

Office: 812-461-5434
email

Dr. Michael Strezewski (2022)
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Southern Indiana
Office: 812-464-1931
email

Leslie Townsend (2026)
Director of Community Engagement, University of Southern Indiana (USI BS '88, MA '08)

Office: 812-465-7013
email

  

Ex Officio

Dr. Del Doughty
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, University of Southern Indiana
Office: 812-461-5475
Dr. Jason Hardgrave
Associate Professor and Chair of the History Department, University of Southern Indiana
Office: 812-465-1221
Ms. Marna Hostetler
Director of David L. Rice Library, University of Southern Indiana
Office: 812-464-1826

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