Steve Schewel
Visiting Assistant Professor

Steve Schewel graduated magna cum laude from Duke in 1973. He earned a master’s in English from Columbia University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in education from Duke in 1982. In 1983, he founded the Durham-based Independent newspaper. The weekly paper has won some of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, including the George Polk Award for environmental reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors national award, the H.L. Mencken Writing Award, and the Thurgood Marshall Award. Schewel stepped down as publisher in 1999, but continues to be president and board chair of the company that publishes The Independent. A former English teacher, Schewel serves on a number of boards in the local community and coaches middle school soccer. Through the Hart Leadership Program, Schewel has taught "Leadership, Policy and Change," and "Moral Leadership in Vietnam." In 2004, he was elected to the board of education of Durham public schools.