2019-20 Leadership Team
President
Luke Sower is president of the Delta-Psi chapter. A resident of Cedarville, Tennessee, he is a senior history major and Spanish minor. Sower has a special historical interest in studying the indigenous peoples of Latin America, with a focus on the Nahua people of central Mexico. He won the first-place award for best papers at the 2018 Arkansas Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference in Monticello as well the first-place prize in Union's 2018 Dr. James Alex Baggett History Research Paper Competition. In 2019, he presented a paper at the Tennessee Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference at Belmont University and at Union University's Scholarship Symposium. He also won second place in the 2019 Dr. James Alex Baggett History Research Paper Competition. Beyond Phi Alpha Theta, which he joined in February 2018, Sower is a member of the Student Leadership Team for Barefoots Joe, a student tutor at the Union University Writing Center, and an officer in Union's College Democrats. He is also involved in the Discipline-Specific Honors Program in History.
Vice President
Megan Ledbetter holds the post of Delta-Psi chapter vice president. She is a senior history major who lives in Columbia, Tennessee. Her favorite historical topics are the American Revolution, the early national period in America, and general social history, especially as it relates to people with disabilities. She joined Phi Alpha Theta in February 2018 and served as chapter secretary in 2018-2019. She was the history department's archives intern at Union's Library in the Logos in the spring of 2019, and she won the third-place award in the 2019 Dr. James Alex Baggett History Research Paper Competition. She successfully completed the course requirements for Union's General Honors Program in 2018.
Secretary
Reagan Smith serves as Delta-Psi chapter secretary. A senior broadcast journalism major and history minor, he especially enjoys studying the history of the Americas and the twentieth-century world. His interests extend to sports, where Smith announces various sports events for Union University. In addition to Phi Alpha Theta, which he joined in February 2019, Smith is a member of Alpha Chi Honor Society. He hails from Eads, Tennessee.
Senators
Katie Allison is one of the Delta-Psi chapter's two senators in the Senate of Union's Student Government Association. Allison, who is a senior history major and political science minor, joined Phi Alpha Theta in February 2018. She is particularly interested in women's history, political history, and the Cold War era. She served as the history department's archives intern in Union's Library in the Logos during the spring of 2018, and she won the first-place prize in the 2019 Dr. James Alex Baggett History Research Paper Competition. Besides Phi Alpha Theta, her activities include those of resident advisor in the women's quads, study lab coach in history, vice president of Union's College Democrats, and membership in Alpha Chi Honor Society and the Rutledge Honorary History Club. Allison is also enrolled in the Discipline-Specific Honors Program in History. Allison's home is in Ashville, North Carolina.
William (Mac) Hazlerig is the other Delta-Psi chapter senator in the Senate of Union's Student Government Association. A senior political science major and history minor, he has been a Phi Alpha Theta member since February 2019. His historical areas of interest include women's history, the American Civil Rights movement, and the Renaissance. Hazlerig is a member of the Union University Singers, the Voices of Proclamation, the Mobilization Squad, and Union's chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society where he serves as secretary. He is also a Life Group leader, a Life Group Support Team leader, and president of Union's College Democrats. Hazlerig resides in Collierville, Tennessee.
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Stephen Carls is in his 37th year as the Delta-Psi chapter's faculty advisor. He served as the national president of Phi Alpha Theta from 2014 to 2016 and chair of the society's advisory board from 2016 to 2018. He has coordinated Tennessee Phi Alpha Theta regional conferences three times - in 1991, 2003, and 2016. Under his leadership, the Delta-Psi chapter has won Phi Alpha Theta Best Chapter Awards every year since 2003. An attendee at all national Phi Alpha Theta biennial conventions since 2004, he has had Delta-Psi chapter members present papers at virtually all of those. He has also taken students to numerous Phi Alpha Theta regional conferences where they have delivered papers and, on many occasions, won prizes. Carls has been a Phi Alpha Theta member since 1970.