Lilly Fellows Program Staff

Mark R. Schwehn, Project Director
Mark R. Schwehn is the Provost of Valparaiso University. He has taught at the California State University at San Jose (1969-1972), the University of Chicago (1975-1983), and in Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University (1983-2009), where he was dean from 1990-2003. From 1967-1975 he held a Danforth Graduate Fellowship at Stanford University where he completed a PhD in history and humanities. His publications include Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America (Oxford, 1993), Everyone a Teacher (Notre Dame, 2000), and with Dorothy C. Bass Leading Lives That Matter (Eerdmans, 2006).

Joe Creech, Program Director
Joseph Creech received his PhD in history from the University of Notre Dame. He teaches history and humanities in Christ College at Valparaiso University and specializes in American cultural, political, and religious history. In 2005 he was named one of the notable "Young Scholars in American Religion" by the Center for the Study of American Religion and Culture. He is the author of Righteous Indignation: Religion and the Populist Revolution in North Carolina (Illinois, 2006). To contact Joe, click here.

  Kathy Sutherland, Program Coordinator
Kathy Sutherland received a B.A. from Sterling College in Sterling Kansas, an M.A. in College Student Development from Azusa Pacific College in Azusa, California, and has done coursework toward an M.S.W. at Indiana University. She worked in Residence Life at Taylor University, University of Chicago and Valparaiso University and as an author’s assistant before coming to the Lilly Fellows Program.  To contact Kathy, click here.