Dr. Sam Shepherd
Professor of History
B.A., University of Delaware, 1970; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1980, University of Wisconsin.
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Dr. Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr. is professor of history. He received his B.A. in American Studies from the University of Delaware and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches advanced courses in Southern History and Twentieth-Century U.S. He supervises history internships and directs the senior seminar in which many research projects focus on southern cities.
A scholar of southern urban and religious history, Dr. Shepherd is the author of Avenues of Faith: Shaping the Urban Religious Culture of Richmond, Virginia, 1900-1929. He is the editor of the forthcoming volume New Orleans and Urban Louisiana. He has contributed articles to The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (2nd revised edition, forthcoming), The Dictionary of American History, The Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Grassroots Constitutionalism: Shreveport, the South, and The Constitution, The Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, and Louisiana History. He is currently engaged in research about the life of Walter Russell Bowie, a twentieth-century Episcopal rector, educator, and author.
Dr. Shepherd serves as the advisor to Centenary’s Alpha-Alpha-Omega chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the international honor society in history. He has been named to "Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers" four times and was honored as Centenary’s Outstanding Teacher in 1991. He has served on committees of the Southern Historical Association and the Louisiana Historical Association as well as on the board of directors of the North Louisiana Historical Association. Fond of baseball, music, and the family Brittany, Dr. Shepherd is married to Julienne, Head of Research Services, Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State University in Shreveport.
