Faculty

Meet the Business and Management Faculty

The interdisciplinary minor in Business and Management draws upon Knox faculty expertise in several areas related to Business and Management -- economics, political science, philosophy, and psychology. The academic fields for professors are listed below, with additional information and e-mail contacts on each person's linked profile page.

John Spittell, Chair
Professor of Business and Management and Executive-in-Residence
M.B.A., Northwestern University, 1974
"Students need to acquire the proper skill sets required to meet the many and varied challenges they will face in life. A solid liberal arts education provides the best educational platform for any chosen course in life."

John Dooley, Chair
Professor of Computer Science
M.S.C.S. Syracuse University, 1976, M.E.E., Rice University, 1982
"There are two main threads in my research and they're quite different. Because I spent nearly 20 years in the computer industry, I'm very interested in software development and in the development process."

Frank McAndrew
Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology
Ph.D., University of Maine, 1981
"To the extent that there is a common theme tying my research together, it is that I study human social behavior from an evolutionary perspective."

Richard Stout
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1984
"My new interest is modeling oxygen uptake and maximal effort of cardiac patients participating in rehabilitation programs prescribed to restore as much cardiovascular function as possible."

Carol Scotton
Associate Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2000
"The worth or value I'm interested in is not finding the price, but the value that people place on a good (or avoiding a bad)."

Daniel Wack
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009

Cooperating Faculty and Staff

Steve Cohn
Professor of Economics
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 1986
"I am interested in environmental economics and in fundamental philosophical questions involved in the economics curriculum."

Mark Holmes
Associate Professor of Art
M.F.A., Yale University, 1985

L. Sue Hulett
Chair and Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1979
"My research focuses on changing American roles in the new world order. The U.S. faces a dilemma as a single superpower in a chaotic multipolar world."

Duane Oldfield
Associate Professor of Political Science
On-Site Co-Director, Buenos Aires program
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1992
"I am currently working on a book which analyzes the ways in which social movements of the Left and the Right make sense of, politicize, and form alliances to deal with the processes frequently labeled with the term 'globalization.'"

Jonathan Powers
Assistant Professor of Economics
Ph.D., Northwestern University 2002

Robert Seibert
Robert W. Murphy Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Tulane University, 1969
"I am studying the role of Rotary International in world affairs, which will require research visits to Belgium, Switzerland, Bahrain, India, and the Philippines."

Lecturers
Carissa Shoffner
Lecturer in Business
M.S., Bradley University, 2005

Laura Rosene
Lecturer in Business
M.B.A., Indiana University, 2009
"I'm energized to share my business experience and liberal arts perspective with students as another element of their Knox education."