Welcome! My name is Richard Shewmaker and I am creating this website as a dedication to an ancestor of mine who was important in academia, specifically in teaching about The Humanities. Dr. Louise Dudley had a PhD in English and taught for over 40 years at Stephens College in Columbia, MO, which is primarily a girls school. This project will include information about her influence at Stephens College, both as a teacher and an administrator, her intellectual genealogy (the influences on her scholarship), her cultural and familial genealogy, as well as biographical information detailing the kind of life she lived, the kinds of relationships she had.
Louise Dudley