Nadella will replace Professor A.K.M. Adam while Adam is on sabbatical.
 
Nadella has been a visiting instructor at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia; and Mennonite Bible College, Hyderabad, India. Since 2005, he has been Biblical Scholar-in-Residence at Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. He holds honors and awards from United Theological College including the Samuel Lecter Prize and the Stanton Morris Prize in New Testament Studies. Nadella is completing his Ph.D. in New Testament at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia.
 
Adam will spend a year in residence at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, where he will work on a project titled “Signifying Matthew,” an interpretation of Matthew's Gospel as a model for disciples' negotiating the ramifications of their faith in relation to culture.
 
Sheppard comes to the United Library from Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, where she has been library director since 2004 and on the library staff since 1999. 
 
Sheppard holds a Ph.D. in biblical studies from the University of Sheffield, England; a M.L.S. degree from Emporia State University, Kansas; a Master of Arts in Religion degree from Iliff School of Theology, Colorado; a M.Div. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey; and a B.A. from Albright College in Pennsylvania.

Sheppard also taught Latin, Greek and Hebrew, among other courses, at Southwestern College. She also brings with her an understanding for parish ministry, being a pastor for Little River United Methodist Church from 1995-1997.
 
Seabury-Western shares the United Library with Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, the United Methodist seminary across the street on Northwestern University's campus. The library has 320,000 volumes and subscriptions to 1,500 periodicals with strengths in Bible, patristics, Anglican and Methodist studies, liturgics and nineteenth-century American Protestantism.
 
Seabury-Western's special collections include the Hibbard Egyptian Library and the Hale Rare Book Collection with exemplars of early prayer books. Garrett-Evangelical's special collections include the Wesleyana Collection and the Keen Bible Collection of English editions of the Bible.

Seabury-Western's two founding schools merged in 1933 and is one of 11 accredited Episcopal seminaries in the United States.