Professors

JENNY BARKER-DEVINE, Professor of History (2008, 2020) B.A., University of Central
Missouri; M.A., Ph.D., Iowa State University. (Sabbatical Leave – Spring 2023)

BETH W. CAPO, Professor of English, Edward Capps Professor of Humanities (2003, 2014) B.A., Denison University; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

NICHOLAS P. CAPO, Professor of English (2003, 2016) B.A., M.F.A., Pennsylvania State University.

LAURA COREY, Dean of Faculty and Instructional Excellence and Professor of Biology (2009, 2020) B.A., Grinnell College; Ph.D., Harvard University.

KELLY A. DAGAN, Professor of Sociology (2001, 2015) B.A., Hiram College; M.A., Ph.D., Kent

State University. (Sabbatical Leave – Spring 2023)

ADRIENNE HACKER DANIELS, A. Boyd Pixley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies (2000, 2010) B.A., Brooklyn College; M.A., Northwestern University, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

JOHN DREA, Professor of Business Administration (2014, 2014) B.A., Illinois College; M.B.A., University of Notre Dame; D.B.A., Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

BERND K. ESTABROOK, Professor of World Languages and Cultures (German) (1994, 2006) B.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley.

BARBARA A. FARLEY, President of the College and Professor of Business Administration (2013, 2013) B.A., College of Saint Benedict; M.B.A., Ph.D., Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

JEFF GALLE, Professor of Agribusiness Management (2020) A.S., Black Hawk College; B.S., Western Illinois University; M.S., Southern Illinois University; Ph.D., University of Illinois.

STEVEN M. GARDNER, Francis McReynolds Smith Professor of International Understanding and Professor of World Languages and Cultures (Spanish) (2001, 2013) B.A., Alma College; M.A., University of Delaware-Newark; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Sabbatical Leave - Fall 2022)

PATRICIA L. KIIHNE, Professor of Mathematics (1999, 2012) B.S., University of Nebraska- Lincoln; M.S., University of Nebraska-Omaha; Ph.D., University of Tennessee.

KEVIN C. KLEIN, Professor of Economics (1986, 2003) A.A.S., Illinois Central College; B.S., M.S., D.A., Illinois State University.

ROBERT C. KUNATH, William and Charlotte Gardner Professor of History (1994, 2006) B.A.,

University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University. (Sabbatical Leave – Fall 2022)

MARGARET A. MAREK, Professor of World Languages and Cultures (Spanish) (2003, 2020) B.A., St. Olaf College; M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

JAMES P. MARSHALL, Hitchcock Professor of Mathematics (1993, 2005) B.A., Grand Valley State College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

MARY K. MARSHALL, Professor of Mathematics (1995, 2008) B.A., St. Olaf College; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison.

TODD D. OBERG, Professor of Mathematics (1999, 2012) B.A., Luther College; M.S., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Montana. 

CATHARINE E. O’CONNELL, Professor of English (2016, 2016) B.A., Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

ZVI PASMAN, Professor of Chemistry (2003, 2015) B.S., Ph.D., Duke University.

ADAM L. PORTER, Scarborough Professor of Religion (2000, 2012) B.A., Oberlin College;

M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Duke University. (Sabbatical Leave – 2022-2023 Academic Year)

ELIZABETH A. RELLINGER ZETTLER, Professor of Psychology (1993, 2005) B.S., Loyola University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame. 

NANCY TAYLOR PORTER, Professor of Theatre (2004, 2017) B.A., Guilford College; M.A., University of Louisville; Ph.D., Tufts University.

JEREMY TURNER, Professor of Psychology (2006, 2015) B.A., Illinois College; M.A., Ph.D., Northern Illinois University.

WINSTON R. WELLS, Findley Family Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Political Science (1998, 2016) B.A., Northwestern University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles.

LAWRENCE W. ZETTLER, Hitchcock Professor of Biology (1996, 2007) A.A., Santa Fe Community College; B.S., University of Florida; Ph.D., Clemson University.