Dr. Carey Shellman received her B.A. and M.A. from Armstrong Atlantic State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Florida.  Her dissertation "Nellie Peters Black and the Practical Application of the Social Gospel in the New South, 1890-1919" focuses on the role of organized women in the promotion of the social gospel in the South through progressive reform. Her primary field of study is the American South, with particular interest in the political and social development of post-Reconstruction Georgia. Minor fields of study include Modern Europe, Southern Literature, and Gender Studies.