Sheila L. Skemp

Sheila L. Skemp is an American historian. She was the Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History at the University of Mississippi.

Education Skemp is originally from Illinois. She has a B.A. from the University of Montana (1967) and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (1974). She moved to the University of Mississippi in 1980 where she was named the Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History in 2008. She led the Sarah Isom Center for Women at the University of Mississippi from 1998 until 2000.

Awards and honors Skemp was honored by the University of Mississippi as the first person named Outstanding Teacher in Liberal Arts in 1985.