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			"Our facility at the edge of the campus, is neither a boundary nor a barrier. It is a vital bridge with the university, a place of sustained engagement rather than an enclave. As the center for our operations and a home for our outreach and equipping activities with Yale students and faculty, The Rivendell House gives focus and intensity to our efforts to engage non-Christians as well as Christians." David Mahan, PhD Director Rivendell Institute			Rivendell Institute Board of Directors The Rivendell Institute is non-profit, registered 501(c)3 corporation chartered in the State of Connecticut. Pam Cochran, Ph.D., Lecturer in American Religious History and Communications, and Director for the Center for Religion and Democracy, University of Virginia Stewart Davenport, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Pepperdine University Gregory Ganssle, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute Chris Green, J.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi Jon Hinkson, Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute David Mahan, Ph.D., Executive Director, Rivendell Institute Frederick Schneider, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute C. Donald Smedley, Senior Fellow, Rivendell Institute Drew Trotter, Ph.D., President of the Center for Christian Study, University of Virginia The Rivendell Institute is pleased to have invited four new members to the Board of Directors. Pam Cochran (biography coming soon) Stewart Davenport grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1994 he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University, and in 2001 received his Ph.D. in history from Yale. In 2001-2002 he taught at Connecticut College and since then has been teaching full time at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He teaches courses on Colonial America, the Revolution and New Nation, Civil War and Reconstruction, California History, and American Religious History. Originally interested in William Faulkner and Southern history, Stewart now focuses primarily on American religious history, the history of ideas, and is especially interested in issues of economic ethics. His first book, "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon": Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860, was published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. He has been married since August, 2007, and he and his wife Mary live in Santa Monica, California. Christopher Green has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law since 2006. He earned an A.B. in politics from Princeton University in 1994, a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1998, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2006. He has published work on the relationship of philosophy of language and legal interpretation, the history of the Fourteenth Amendment, the punishment of corporations, the epistemology of testimony, and the relationship of law and epistemology. He and his wife Bonnie and their daughter Hadley live in Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Andrew H. Trotter, Jr., President of the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville, Virginia, has taught biblical studies, systematic theology and cultural apologetics at the seminary level for more than twenty-five years. The author of many books and articles, including the forthcoming Show and Tell: How to View a Movie Responsibly (Baker Academic), Drew has published in Books & Culture, Christianity Today, Critique, and a number of other publications, both scholarly and popular. A well-respected Bible teacher, he has also lectured at seminaries, churches and colleges throughout the United States and Canada on a wide variety of topics from discipleship in the Gospel of Matthew to questions of film and culture.