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Sara grew up in the rural Kirksville area, attended public school in Brashear, Missouri, and attended Northeast Missouri State University (Truman State). She was employed at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine (A.T.Still University) in 1985, for a number of years, before taking time off to raise her family.  She began working on the Truman Campus in the Military Science Division in 2006 as a secretary.

She is married to Harold and they have three children, Jake, 17, Matt, 15, and Katie, 12.

Dr. Daschke joined the Truman faculty in 2000. Dr. Daschke received a master's and a doctorate degree in divinity from The University of Chicago Divinity School, specializing in the area of psychology and sociology of religion. He also holds bachelor's degrees in psychology and religious studies from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His academic interests include apocalypticism, the psychology of religion, new religious movements, religion and health, and ancient and modern Judaism. He is an officer of the Delta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Truman and the chair of the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. He is co-editor with Dr. Ashcraft of the textbook anthology New Religious Movements: A Documentary Reader. His work has been published in the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, American Imago, Studies in Jewish Civilization 12: Millennialism from the Hebrew Bible to the Present, and the four-volume series Psychology and the Bible. In 2001, he served as an expert witness in a copyright infringement case against the producers of the film "The Omega Code."

Randy Hagerty is the Chair of the Political Science Department and has been at Truman since 1990. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from Texas Tech University, and his doctorate from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His teaching interests include public policy and American government, with a focus on interest group politics and environmental politics and policies. He is a member of Pi Sigma Alpha and the American Political Science Association. He is a recipient of Truman State's Educator of the Year Award and the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Colonel H. Martin Jayne is chair and associate professor of Justice Systems at Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri. Colonel Jayne was born 23 March 1950 in Kirksville, Missouri. He entered the Air Force in 1968 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1972. After a joint service assignment with the Defense Language Institute, he attended law school under the Excess Leave and Funded Legal Education Programs. He served in base legal offices in five assignments, as a chief circuit trial counsel (prosecutor), as a military judge, and as an associate professor of law. His additional duties included commanding a cadet basic training squadron and managing Panamaas major international airport during operation JUST CAUSE. He retired in July, 1999 and began teaching at TSU in August, 2000. Colonel Jayne is a member of the Missouri Bar and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in Missouri, and the United States Court of Military Appeals. He is an Admissions Liaison Officer for the United States Air Force Academy and AFROTC.

Amber Johnson is Chair of the Department of Society and Environment and has been at Truman since 2001. Dr. Johnson received her bachelor's degree at Rice University. She holds master's and doctorate degrees from Southern Methodist University. Dr. Johnson is a member of Sigma Xi, the Society for American Archaeology, the American Anthropological Association, and is currently on the board of trustees for the Missouri Archeological Society. Her primary research interest is to explain similarities and differences in patterns of culture change around the world for the last 20-30,000 years. Current research includes both recording information from the ethnographic literature on the organization in economy, technology, and material culture of contemporary societies and determining how to mark organizationally important changes in archaeological sequences. Interested students are encouraged to participate in this research. Dr. Johnson teaches Anthropological Inquiry, Anthropology of Gender, Anthropological Theory, World Prehistory, Human Fossil Ancestry, Social Methodology, and Senior Seminar. In addition, she enjoys her role as the faculty sponsor for the Anthropology Club.

B.A. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A. in Greek and Classical Archeology, University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D. in Classics, University of Texas at Austin. Areas of specialization: Greek literature, Greek religion and mythology. Appointed to TSU faculty in 1988.

Expertise: Mathematics

Research Interest: Algebra, Mathematics education

Research Interests: Modal characteristics of clarinet reeds, imaging vibrations of surfaces using holography, sound propagation in nonuniform waveguides - horns.

General Interests: Musical acoustics in general, random sound fields in rooms (architectural acoustics), perception of sound (psychoacoustics).

Associate Professor of Art, Rusty Nelson has served for the last year and a half as Art Department Chair at Truman State University. Nelson has taught Visual Communications at Truman for ten years. Prior to higher education, Nelson worked professionally in advertising for fifteen years in Topeka, Kansas City, and Salina, Kansas. His career encompasses multiple areas of experience from advertising and publication design, corporate identity, outdoor billboard and signage design, book design and traditional illustration.  Nelson’s illustrations have been published in regional and national publications such as Field and Stream, Discipleship Journal and Mature Living. Related areas of interest include micropublishing and bookbinding as well as mural design and production. Technical areas of experience include traditional paste-up, marker comps, type specifying, pre-press offset lithography production as well as digital applications of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver.

Dr. Olson is presently the chairman of the Economics Department. He has been at Truman since 1990. He holds a B.S. degree in Economics and a B.A. degree in Statistics from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching interests include Principles of Microeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Cost Benefit Analysis, econometrics, labor economics, economics of public expenditures, and economics of law. His current research focuses on applied cost-benefit analysis, personnel economics, differences in cooperative and altruistic behavior across groups, and game theoretic applications in the law. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies, the American Economic Association and the Western Economic Association International.

Dr. Reschly has been at Truman since 1994. He earned his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1994, and also holds an MA in History from the University of Northern Iowa, an MDiv from Goshen Biblical Seminary, and a BA in History from Goshen College. Dr. Reschly's teaching interests include American social history, women's history, Frontier and West, and history of sexuality. His current research examines rural consumer culture in Amish and related groups in 1930s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His first book, The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840-1910 (Johns Hopkins, 2000), was named the 2002 Book of the Year by the Communal Studies Association. His second book is a co-edited collection, Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History (Johns Hopkins, 2002). In 2003-2004, he taught at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany as a Fulbright Senior Scholar. He has led nine Study Abroad courses in Europe, taking over 100 students overseas. He is a member of the American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Agricultural History Society, Women's and Gender Historians of the Midwest, Western Historical Association, and Rural Women's Studies Association.

I teach courses in agricultural business and marketing and sustainable agriculture.  My research interests focus on the impacts of agricultural change on human communities.

Dr. Tigner has been at Truman since 1996 and currently serves as the Department Chair. He earned his bachelor's degree, cum laude, from Hanover College and his master's and doctorate in cognitive/experimental psychology from Ohio State University. He has done research in human factors, aviation psychology, and psychophysiological measures of attention and memory. His current research interests include inhibitory mechanisms of attention, intelligence, and memory. He has taught general psychology, experimental psychology, psychology of learning, history and systems of psychology, and psychological research. An active supporter of Greek life, Dr. Tigner has presented at both regional and national Greek leadership conferences, and served on the steering committee for Beta Theta Pi's Men of Principle initiative. He was named Beta Theta Pi's Advisor of the Year in 2005, regional Outstanding Friend of Beta in 2006, and Truman's E.M. Violette Outstanding Advisor in 2009. Dr. Tigner is a member of the Midwestern Psychological Association. He is the advisor for Truman's chapter of Beta Theta Pi and is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa and Psi Chi.

I teach AGSC 160, Agricultural Techniques, and supervise student workers in the management of all horses, livestock, field crop, horticulture, and forage enterprises at the University Farm.

Ms. Joy Pugh, Criminalist and Instructor, has been at Truman since 1985. She received a B.S. in Biology from the University of South Dakota. She is responsible for the analysis of physical evidence submitted by area law enforcement agencies to the Northeast Area Criminalistics Laboratory, located on campus. Her teaching interests are in the field of forensic science. She is a member of the Midwestern Association of Forensic Scientists, the Clandestine Laboratory Investigating Chemists Association, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Criminalistics.