Faculty
 C. Patrick Hotle, PhD
Professor of History,
John A. Sperry Endowed Chair of Humanities, Coordinator of Study Abroad Programs
A native Iowan, Patrick Hotle received his B.A. in history from the University of Iowa before moving on to Cambridge University to pursue graduate work. Hotle earned his M. Phil in International Relations from Cambridge in 1985 and his doctorate in history in 1992. Before coming to Culver-Stockton, Dr. Hotle taught extensively abroad in Nicaragua, Egypt, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In 2000, Dr. Hotle was awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Turkey. He has been teaching at Culver-Stockton since 1993.
Dr. Hotle's primary area of research is Tudor England, particularly the reign of Henry VIII. He is the author of Thistles and Thorns, Anglo-Scottish Relations 1525-1542 and several articles on Henry VIII's Scottish policy. In addition, Dr. Hotle has authored numerous educational guidebooks on such topics as the Middle East, Turkey, Russia, and the European Renaissance.
 Judy Abbott, JD
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Law
Judy Abbott earned her bachelor's degree in political science and pre-law summa cum laude at Illinois State University in Normal, Ill., in 1990. In 1994, she received her law degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City with honors. She joined the C-SC faculty in summer 2008.
She has worked as a juvenile prosecutor and domestic violence prosecutor in Adams County, Ill., since 1995 and has received many awards for her work including: the 1994 American Jurisprudence Award, the 2004 Liberty Bell Award from the Adams County Bar Association, the 2005 John Evans Award from Quincy University, and the 2006 Women of Achievement Award from the YWCA. She has also been a teacher at Quincy University, John Wood Community College, and had previously been a guest lecturer at C-SC.
Abbott is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Adams County Bar Association, the American Mock Trial Association, Kiwanis, Adams County Domestic Violence Council, and the Adams County Detention Center Council as well as being a former board member of the Cheerful Home Day Care.
 Greg Bohémier, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Born and raised in Massachusetts, Greg Bohémier is in his fifteenth year of teaching at Culver-Stockton College. He earned his B.A. in psychology from Western New England College in Springfield, Mass. and his M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also holds two Ph.D. minors in developmental cognition and systems science.
Bohémier is an associate member of the Psychonomics Society and a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Computers in Psychology. He is the faculty advisor for Psi Chi (an honors psychology fraternity), the Pre-Occupational Therapy Program, and Occupational Therapy Club. He serves on 11 academic committees including judicial, honors program, social and behavioral sciences, and Academic and Cultural Events committees.
In his time at C-SC, he has taught a variety of courses including astronomy, death and dying, gender studies, human motivation, general psychology, sensation and perception, and memory and cognition.
 Michael Bradshaw, MA
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice
Michael Bradshaw, a 22-year law enforcement veteran, graduated with his B.S. from Northeast Missouri State University and earned his M.A. at Western Illinois University. In his 22 years of service, he spent seven years as deputy sheriff and eight years as chief of police. He has been a military policeman, a nationally certified D.A.R.E. instructor, a school resource officer, an elderly services officer, a crisis intervention team leader, and a hostage negotiation trainer.
His special areas include law enforcement administration, Satanic crimes investigation and training, and domestic violence situational training.
 Joy L. Daggs, PhD
Assistant Professor of Communication
A native Missourian, Joy Daggs received her B.A. in English communications with a minor in computer information science from William Woods University in 1998. Daggs then earned her M.A. in communication studies from the University of Northern Iowa and her doctorate degree in communications at the University of Missouri.
While pursuing her doctorate, Daggs taught communications courses at the University of Missouri and at Columbia College in public speaking, human communication, interpersonal communication, organizational communication and argumentation. Daggs also participated in numerous conferences, presenting research papers and serving as chair of the Graduate Student Caucus in the Central States Communication Association.
 David Fistein, PhD
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Born in Mlada Boleslav, Czech Republic, David Fistein has lived in the form Czechoslovakia and Germany for 10 years each, in Austria for one-and-a-half years, and in New York City for three months. He now resides in Canton with his wife and two children.
Fistein attended SUNY College at Buffalo for undergraduate school and earned his B.A. in sociology with honors when he graduated in 1993. He received his M.S. in international relations from Troy State University – European Division at Ramstein Air Base in Germany in 1995. In 2002, he graduated from University of Missouri-Saint Louis with his M.A. in political science and continued there until he gained his Ph.D. in political science in 2006.
His research interests include comparative politics, area studies, social movements and revolutions, international relations, democratization and minority rights, and women and politics. He is a member of the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. He is fluent in both Czech and German.
 Scott E. Giltner, PhD
Assistant Professor of History
Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Scott Giltner received his B.A. in history from Hiram College before going on to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. While at Pittsburgh, he was awarded the Lillian B. Lawler Predoctoral Fellowship and won the Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society. He received his M.A. in 1998 and was awarded the Ph.D. in 2005 before moving to Canton to begin teaching at Culver-Stockton.
Dr. Giltner's research deals with conflicts, particularly between Southern blacks and whites, over competing notions of proper subsistence and land use. He is the author of "Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Antebellum South," in To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History. His book, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.
 Lee Hammer, PhD
Professor of English, Advisor to Harmony Magazine
Lee Hammer has been an English professor at Culver-Stockton College since 1987. He was raised near Galena, Ill., as a fourth-generation inhabitant of a family farm. He received a B.A. in English from Western Illinois University, after which he joined the Naval Reserves and served as a correspondence yeoman at the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces headquarters in Saigon, Vietnam. After his one-year tour of duty in Vietnam, Dr. Hammer earned an M.A. in English from Western Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Modern British Literature from Marquette University.
Dr. Hammer’s professional involvements include service as a member of the Executive Board for the Missouri Colloquium on Writing Assessment from 1996-2006 and as coordinator of Culver-Stockton’s TASC (Tutorial and Academic Support Center) services from 1990-1999. Dr. Hammer received the Culver-Stockton Helsabeck Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 1989.
Although his field of expertise is modern British literature, his academic interests are broad. He enjoys reading and studying the works of modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, and William Faulkner. He also enjoys the study of languages (German, French, Old English). Privately he enjoys photography, writing poetry, and playing guitar. He is currently at work on a science-fiction/fantasy novel.
 Jayme Long, PhD
Instructor of English, Coordinator of Academic Support Center
Jayme Long graduated in 1988 from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. with her B.A. and continued there working on her M.A., which she received in 1989. She earned her Ph.D. in 2002 from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale.
Dr. Long's areas of study include modern European literature, film studies, African-American literature, Emily Dickinson, and rhetoric and composition. Her teaching experience includes world literature, film as literary translation, and introductory and advanced writing courses.
And, though over 40, she can still rock the disc (Frisbee).
Steven Long, PhD
Dr. Steven Long is associate professor of English, director of the Culver-Stockton honors scholars program, and faculty athletic representative. His academic interests include philosophy, classical and contemporary rhetoric, literary aesthetics and theory, 19th century British literature, and modern and contemporary American literature. His hobbies include listening to all kinds of music, watching deliciously terrible movies, and writing strange copy on Facebook. He and his wife Dr. Jayme Long have two children, Helen and Marvin. Before teaching at Culver-Stockton, Long was copy editor for Nightlife, an arts an entertainment newspaper, in Carbondale, Ill. He is an invited scholar in the International Communicology Institute. In 2006, he published a monograph, “Hamartia Poetics in Dickens’ Bleak House” in The American Journal of Semiotics (Vol. 18, no. 1).
Rich K. Meyer,
Lecturer in Social Studies Methods
Rich Meyer earned his B.S. in physical education from Quincy University and an M.A. in history from Western Illinois University before moving on to a 20 year career in public school teaching. Rich has been at Culver-Stockton since 2007 where he also coaches the women's volleyball team.
 Carol W. Nichols, M.S., M.A.,
Adjunct Instructor in History, Humanities
Carol Nichols, an instructor since 2006, holds a Masters in Humanities from California State University, Dominguez Hills, and a second Masters in Health Services Research from the University of Rochester, NY. Nichols is also a painter, calligrapher, book designer, and certified Iyengar Yoga instructor. She teaches courses in Modern Western Civilization, Women’s American History, the History of the Book, other humanities courses and Iyengar Yoga.
Recently, she has created “An Illustrated and Illuminated Manuscript of the Gospel of Thomas.” With a translation by Dr. Marvin Meyer of Chapman University, this artbook is the first “medieval-style” manuscript of the gospel since 350 CE (www.letterata.com). The work is dedicated to the late C-SC professor, Dr. John Sperry.
Rev. Brent Reynolds
Chaplain and Instructor of Religion and Philosophy
Brent Reynolds became C-SC chaplain in July 2007. Previously, he was senior pastor of First Christian Church, Watkinsville, Ga., and worked closely with Christian College of Georgia and Disciples on Campus College Ministry. Previously he had been associate pastor of First Christian Church of Valdosta, Ga. Reynolds also served on the Georgia Youth Activities Council and worked as a counselor and co-director at Camp Christian. He also was active in various civic and church-related groups in both Watkinsville and Valdosta.
Before becoming a pastor, Reynolds was the website developer and outreach coordinator for Web of Creation in Chicago, a website for the National Council of Churches Justice Ministry site that fosters a sustainable world by providing ministerial resources for ecology and eco-justice. He also was sole proprietor for Branching Streams Computer Consulting, Chicago.
Reynolds earned his bachelor's degrees in religious studies and philosophy at Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va., and his master's of divinity at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago.
Ron Stormer, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Ron Stormer received his B.A. and M.A. in English from the University of Northern Iowa and his Ph.D. in English from Northern Illinois University. He is currently chair of the English Department and academic advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society.
His academic specialty is the Restoration and eighteenth-century English literature, but his academic interests also include classical literature, the Bible, English religious poets, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O'Connor.
He enjoys writing poetry and fiction and playing the guitar.
 Andrew D. Walsh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Andrew Walsh has been a professor at Culver-Stockton College since 2001. He received his B.A. in philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, Ill., in 1988 and then moved on to Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., to get his master of theological studies degree with a focus in ethics, which he received in 1990. At Drew University in Madison, N.J., Walsh received his masters of philosophy in ethics and politics in 1992. He then continued his studies at Drew University to earn his Ph.D. in religion and society: ethics and politics, which he received in 1994 while working at Indiana University-Purdue University as an associate faculty member.
Dr. Walsh is the author of Religion, Economics and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars published by Greenwood Publishing Group. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the American Political Science Association, and the Society of Christian Ethics. He has received multiple teaching awards including "Faculty Member of the Year" from the C-SC Panhellenic Council, "2004 Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the Missouri Department of Higher Education, and the "Teaching Excellence Recognition Award" from Indiana University.
Rod Walton, MA
Associate Professor of Psychology
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