Faculty

Dr. Bartels conducts research on achievement motivation, self-regulated learning and critical thinking. His scholarly work includes a critical thinking textbook, Revisiting Psychology: A Student's Guide to Critical Thought , and research published in numerous academic journals including the Journal...

Dr. Barth is clinically trained as a speech-language pathologist with broad training in language development and disorders and the language basis of reading disabilities. Her long-term research goal is to understand how both domain-specific and domain-general abilities affect reading comprehension...

Alyssa Bell has a passion for music performance and education and is devoted to sharing multi-genre music. In 2019 Alyssa co-founded Soundwave Academy, a music academy focusing on holistic music learning including ear training, chamber music, keyboard skills, and more. Alyssa has been teaching...

After teaching high school history for two years in Queens, N.Y., Dr. Benz attended Princeton Theological Seminary, earning the Henry Snyder Gehman Award in Old Testament and graduating with an M.Div. He earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. While...

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.