Faculty

The following Maryville faculty are among those who teach courses in the Honors program:

	Jesse Kavadlo has been directing the writing center and teaching at Maryville University since August 2004, after completing a PhD in English at Fordham University in New York City and teaching college in Minnesota from 2000 to 2004.  He is the author of Don DeLillo: Balance at the Edge of Belief (New York: Peter Lang, 2004) and many essays about literature, popular culture, and teaching college writing.  His next book (in progress) will analyze expressions and social implications of male self-destruction in contemporary novels, film, and music.
Linda Pitelka is the director of the Bascom Honors Program and Professor of History. She has been teaching American history at Maryville since 1994 and has won four teaching awards. Her interests include the history of the American West, women's history, and American Indians. Her book in progress is about race and ethnic relations in rural California from the 1850s to the 1930s.
	Carol Radford is Associate Instructor/Science Lab Manager, and teaches Geology and Natural History. Her favorite subjects include plate tectonics, Missouri Precambrian geology, human evolution, horse evolution, origins of agriculture and animal domestication, conservation and biodiversity, biogeography, ethnobotany and medicinal plants, Native American prehistory and history, human tribal groups and traditional life styles, origins of human language groups and mammalian coat color inheritance.
	Kent Bausman is Professor of Sociology, and Criminology Program Coordinator. He was the recipient of Maryville's 2005 Anna Moudy Award for Excellence in Education.
	Bebe Nickolai has taught at Maryville since 1977. Her main scholarly interests are rhetoric, American literature, and women's literature.
	Other faculty (info coming soon): Germaine Murray, Dennis Wachtel, Nadine Ball, Leah Schwartz