School of Arts & Humanities Archives - Missouri Valley University https://www.moval.edu/news/division/school-of-arts-humanities/ Home of the Vikings Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:07:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.moval.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/favicon64X64.png School of Arts & Humanities Archives - Missouri Valley University https://www.moval.edu/news/division/school-of-arts-humanities/ 32 32 Dr. Jason Dude Lively https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/jason-dude-lively/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:58:19 +0000 https://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=18387 Dr. Jason Dude Lively (aka Dr. Dude) serves as a Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Missouri Valley College, where he helps students build the creative and technical skills they need to succeed in today’s digital world. With over 25 years of experience teaching web design, interactive media, graphic design, and computer ... Read Dr. Jason Dude Lively

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]]> Dr. Jason Dude Lively (aka Dr. Dude) serves as a Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Missouri Valley College, where he helps students build the creative and technical skills they need to succeed in today’s digital world. With over 25 years of experience teaching web design, interactive media, graphic design, and computer information systems, he brings both real-world perspective and a passion for student success to every course.

Dr. Dude guides learners through hands-on projects that incorporate emerging tools like artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and interactive simulations—equipping them with not only technical know-how but also essential power skills like creativity, adaptability, and problem-solving. Whether a student is preparing for a career in design, media, or technology, his classes are designed to support their goals and amplify their strengths.

Having worked as a university webmaster, CIO for a solar tech company, production manager in the computer manufacturing industry, and freelance designer, Dr. Lively draws from a broad range of professional experiences to connect course content to real-world applications. Additionally as a practicing and exhibited digital and mixed-media artist, he also helps creative students refine their voice and bring their vision to life.

At Valley, Dr. Dude is committed to walking alongside students as they explore, grow, and prepare for what’s next—offering encouragement, expertise, and a clear path forward in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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]]> Mia Johnson https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/mia-johnson-mfa/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:45:56 +0000 https://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=17209 The post Mia Johnson appeared first on Missouri Valley University.

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]]> Dr. Minjin Park https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/dr-minjin-park/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:07:09 +0000 https://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=17192 Dr. Minjin Park is an assistant professor of English at Missouri Valley College. She received her doctoral degree in English at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her research centers on nineteenth-century British literature and medicine and her dissertation examines the ways in which women writers used sensory discourse to resist male-dominated medicine in the Victorian ... Read Dr. Minjin Park

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]]> Dr. Minjin Park is an assistant professor of English at Missouri Valley College. She received her doctoral degree in English at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her research centers on nineteenth-century British literature and medicine and her dissertation examines the ways in which women writers used sensory discourse to resist male-dominated medicine in the Victorian era.

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]]> Dr. Katherine Armstrong https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/katie-armstrong-phd/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:39:17 +0000 https://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=15551 Katie Armstrong is an assistant professor of Communication Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities. Before arriving at MVC, she taught undergraduate communication courses at West Virginia University and Texas Christian University. She is an active National Communication Association and Eastern Communication Association member and has published work in Health Communication and the Southern ... Read Dr. Katherine Armstrong

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]]> Katie Armstrong is an assistant professor of Communication Studies in the School of Arts and Humanities. Before arriving at MVC, she taught undergraduate communication courses at West Virginia University and Texas Christian University. She is an active National Communication Association and Eastern Communication Association member and has published work in Health Communication and the Southern Communication Journals. PhD-Communication Studies, West Virginia University MS- Communication Studies, Texas Christian University BA- Communication, University of Missouri-Columbia

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]]> Dr. Christopher Libby https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/christopher-libby/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:40:41 +0000 https://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=15550 Dr. Christopher Libby is dean of the Honors College, professor of Religion and Philosophy, and faculty sponsor for Alpha Chi Honor Society. He has taught at Valley since 2011. Libby’s teaching and scholarship are focused broadly on theoretical and applied ethical issues that arise at the intersection of philosophy and theology. His publications include “Rorty ... Read Dr. Christopher Libby

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]]> Dr. Christopher Libby is dean of the Honors College, professor of Religion and Philosophy, and faculty sponsor for Alpha Chi Honor Society. He has taught at Valley since 2011. Libby’s teaching and scholarship are focused broadly on theoretical and applied ethical issues that arise at the intersection of philosophy and theology. His publications include “Rorty or Kierkegaard: Social Amelioration, Truth, and the Ground of Cornel West’s Normative Commitments,” International Journal of Public Theology 5, no. 2 (2011) and Truth, Community, and the Prophetic Voice: Michael Walzer, Stanley Hauerwas, and Cornel West on Justice and Peace (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2018).

PhD, Laney Graduate School, Emory University MTS, Candler School of Theology, Emory University MA, University of Colorado – Boulder AB, William Jewell College Additional Study: Homerton College, University of Cambridge

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]]> Dr. Claire Schmidt https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/dr-claire-schmidt/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:41:21 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1737 Dr. Claire Schmidt is a folklorist and associate professor of English. She teaches courses in British and World literature and writing. Her areas of literary expertise include early medieval British literature (Anglo Saxon hagiography and oral tradition), Chaucer, postcolonial British fiction, and global mystery fiction. Claire specializes in creative nonfiction, public writing, and grant writing. ... Read Dr. Claire Schmidt

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]]> Dr. Claire Schmidt is a folklorist and associate professor of English. She teaches courses in British and World literature and writing. Her areas of literary expertise include early medieval British literature (Anglo Saxon hagiography and oral tradition), Chaucer, postcolonial British fiction, and global mystery fiction. Claire specializes in creative nonfiction, public writing, and grant writing. As a folklorist, Claire’s research is focused on the everyday, specifically occupational humor and foodways and race. She is the author of If You Don’t Laugh You’ll Cry: The Occupational Humor of White Wisconsin Prison Workers (2017, University of Wisconsin Press) and has published research in Western Folklore, Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture, Oral Tradition, as well as in edited collections, including Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century, Culture Work: Folklore for the Public Good, Reading Mystery Science Theatre: Critical Approaches and History of Folklore Studies in the United States and Canada.

  • PhD in English with a concentration in folklore, oral tradition, and cultural studies, University of Missouri
  • MA in English, University of Missouri
  • BA in English, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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]]> Chris Post https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/chris-post/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 18:26:17 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1722 Chris Post is an instructor of mass communication and serves as faculty advisor for The Delta student newspaper and Voyage student magazine at Missouri Valley College. Over the last 20 years, Chris has had the opportunity to experience all aspects of print journalism working as a reporter, editor and photojournalist at weekly and daily newspapers, ... Read Chris Post

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]]> Chris Post is an instructor of mass communication and serves as faculty advisor for The Delta student newspaper and Voyage student magazine at Missouri Valley College. Over the last 20 years, Chris has had the opportunity to experience all aspects of print journalism working as a reporter, editor and photojournalist at weekly and daily newspapers, as well as contributing articles to and editing print and digital magazines. Chris has received awards from the Missouri Press Association for investigative reporting and information graphic design and was named as the Civil Air Patrol Public Affairs Officer of the Year for the North Central Region of the United States Air Force Auxiliary.

  • BS in journalism, University of Central Missouri (UCM)

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]]> Dr. Debbie Olson https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/dr-debbie-olson/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:03:37 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1719 Dr. Debbie Olson’s research interests include images of African & African American children in film and television, critical race theory, childhood studies, cultural studies, African film and New Hollywood Cinema. She is the editor-in-chief of Red Feather Journal: an International Journal of Children in Popular Culture (https://jocpc.org/), author of Black Children in Hollywood Cinema: Cast ... Read Dr. Debbie Olson

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]]> Dr. Debbie Olson’s research interests include images of African & African American children in film and television, critical race theory, childhood studies, cultural studies, African film and New Hollywood Cinema. She is the editor-in-chief of Red Feather Journal: an International Journal of Children in Popular Culture (https://jocpc.org/), author of Black Children in Hollywood Cinema: Cast in Shadow (Palgrave 2017) and editor of The Child in World Cinema (2018), The Child in Post-apocalyptic Cinema (2015), and many others. She has co-edited, with Dr. Adrian Schober (Australia) Children and Youth in American Television (2018) and Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg (2017). She has written numerous book chapters, most recently “On the Innocence of Beasts: Child Soldiers in Cary Fukunaga’s Beasts of No Nation.” in African Childhoods, edited by Charles Quist-Adade, De-Valera Botchway, and Awo Abena Amoa Sarpong, 2019. She is currently working on her next book, Counterculture Cinema: Youth in Transition.

  • PhD English: screen studies and composition-rhetoric. Oklahoma State University
  • MA English, Central Washington University
  • BA social sciences, Washington State University

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]]> Chaz Maddi https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/chaz-maddi/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:37:29 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1710 Chaz Maddi is a broadcast veteran, working three World Series, five MLB Playoffs, five Stanley Cup Playoffs, four NFL playoffs, two PGA tournaments, one LPGA tournament, seven bowl games, two football conference championship games, three postseason basketball tournaments, hundreds of regular season games, eleven award shows and three industry conferences. Chaz is a self-described old ... Read Chaz Maddi

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]]> Chaz Maddi is a broadcast veteran, working three World Series, five MLB Playoffs, five Stanley Cup Playoffs, four NFL playoffs, two PGA tournaments, one LPGA tournament, seven bowl games, two football conference championship games, three postseason basketball tournaments, hundreds of regular season games, eleven award shows and three industry conferences. Chaz is a self-described old media man with a tough side and a tougher other side. Founding member of the grammar police, he has a semi-permanent address in the MVC TV Studio with a vacation home in the Volney C. Ashford Stadium press box.

  • Bachelor of Journalism, University of Missouri School of Journalism

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]]> Kelley D. McKay Fuemmeler https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/kelley-fuemmeler/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:16:30 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1662 Kelley D. McKay-Fuemmeler is an assistant professor of English as well as the coordinator of the interdisciplinary studies program. She has had work published in In Geardagum and has presented at the Sigma Tau Delta national convention. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English. MA English with an emphasis on ... Read Kelley D. McKay Fuemmeler

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]]> Kelley D. McKay-Fuemmeler is an assistant professor of English as well as the coordinator of the interdisciplinary studies program. She has had work published in In Geardagum and has presented at the Sigma Tau Delta national convention. She is a member of the National Council of Teachers of English.

  • MA English with an emphasis on cultural studies, Kansas State University
  • BA English and history, Missouri Valley College

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]]> Ken Kujawa https://www.moval.edu/faculty-staff/ken-kujawa/ Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:44:38 +0000 http://www.moval.edu/?post_type=faculty&p=1561 Ken Kujawa is the director of the Viking Sports Network and an adjunct faculty member in the mass communication department at Missouri Valley College. Kujawa is the “Voice of the Vikings”, broadcasting many of the home and road athletic events. He teaches mass communication courses such as radio production, sports reporting and media law. Prior to ... Read Ken Kujawa

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]]> Ken Kujawa is the director of the Viking Sports Network and an adjunct faculty member in the mass communication department at Missouri Valley College. Kujawa is the “Voice of the Vikings”, broadcasting many of the home and road athletic events. He teaches mass communication courses such as radio production, sports reporting and media law. Prior to coming to Valley in 2008, Kujawa worked for commercial radio stations in South Dakota, Nebraska and Missouri for 40 years, the last 30 of those years with the Shepherd Group of radio stations based in Moberly, Missouri. During that time he was the play-by-play voice for the Moberly Area Community College Greyhounds and in 2019 was elected to the MACC Athletic Hall of Fame for his sports broadcasting.

  • BA, University of South Dakota

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