Faculty

Prior to joining William Jewell College, Dr. Bots received his B.A. and M.S. degrees in economics in Ukraine, where he also worked for two years as an economist. Later he continued his education at Purdue University where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics with a concentration in...

Dr. Braitman teaches Introduction to Psychological Science, Statistics for Psychological Science, Personality Psychology, Capstone in Psychological Science, and Identity and Society. Her primary areas of research are in highway safety (distracted driving and young drivers) and the scholarship of...

Dr. Cawthon is an astronomer and cosmologist. He presently does research with the international Dark Energy Survey where he studies the large-scale structure of galaxies in the Universe to learn about dark energy and dark matter.

Born in Bristol, England, Dr. Coleman has developed a growing reputation as a composer and arranger in American and Europe. His music has been performed in the States, Europe and New Zealand. He has written for The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, the Simon Carrington Chamber Singers, The King’...

Dr. Cotter earned her B.A. in Women’s Studies and her M.A. in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University. She holds her Ph.D. in Critical Literary and Cultural Studies from The University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Cotter’s scholarly writings in critical literary and cultural studies, feminism,...

Dr. Fox conducts research on attention, multitasking and fatigue perception using psychophysiological measurement techniques. Prior to his full-time teaching appointment at Jewell, he served as career prep advisor and graduate writing consultant at UMKC, as well as the lab manager for the Cognitive...

Mr. Gicinto is a former Operations Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency and built security intelligence programs at companies like Uber, Tesla, and Chainlink Labs. His focus areas include insider threat, threat attribution and investigations, and cyber threat intelligence. He also serves as...