Meet the Faculty Menu

Department Faculty:

  • Wayne Artis Wayne Artis Faculty/Assistant to VPES History of Western Civilization, 20th Century World (719) 502-3002 DT-S218, Box D37, Downtown Studio Wayne Artis received a bachelor’s degree with honors and a master’s degree in history from the University of Delaware, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was a career army air defense artillery officer who served in a variety of assignments in Korea, Italy, Germany and France and also served as a political-military affairs specialist. He joined the adjunct history faculty in 1992 and full-time faculty in 1996 at Pikes Peak Community College and has also served as department chair and interim dean of two instructional divisions. In 2000 his colleagues at Pikes Peak Community College elected him faculty member of the year. From 2000 to 2004 he was the faculty advisor to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and currently serves on the GE-25 Council implementing the guaranteed transfer core curriculum in higher education in Colorado. Currently at Pikes Peak he teaches the Western Civilization survey courses and a course in 20th Century World History and is Co-chair of the History Department and responsible for transfer relationships with four-year colleges and universities as well as teacher preparation. When not at work, Wayne enjoys riding Lance, a seventeen hand former race horse, walking Train, a wimp Pit Bull, gardening, reading history, and listening to opera.
  • Chris Bairn Chris Bairn Adjunct (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Jared Benson Jared Benson Adjunct (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Monica Black Monica Black Adjunct Western Civilization (719) 502-3119 DT-S210, Box D37, Downtown Studio
  • Nawana Britenriker Nawana Britenriker Adjunct U.S. History (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Justin Burnette Justin Burnette Adjunct (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Martin Conrad Martin Conrad Faculty Art History/Art Appreciation (719) 502-3436 DT-S224, Box D37, Downtown Studio
  • Roberta Crownover Roberta Crownover Adjunct Western Civilization and U.S. (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial Getting a later start than most, Roberta Crownover opted for a college education finally when she was 45. Beginning at PPCC, she completed her AA, and then transferred to UCCS on the 60-60 program. Upon graduation she found that she enjoyed education much too much to leave and so finished her Masters in History at UCCS as well. The process of history, how ideas change from one culture to the next, from one era to the next, fascinates her almost as much as how one class differs from the next.
  • James Downing James Downing Adjunct (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Reanne Eichele Reanne Eichele Adjunct Western Civilization, 20th Century World (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial Reanne Eichele received a Bachelor of Arts in French (2003) and a Master of Arts in History (2007) from the University of Northern Colorado. She earned the Dean's Citation for Outstanding Thesis with Making the Profane Sacred: Sixteenth Century Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain. She spent several years in Europe in which she traveled, went to school, and tutored English. She taught high school French in Arizona and taught Western Civilization I at UNC while pursuing her MA. Mrs. Eichele became an adjunct professor for Pikes Peak Community College in 2009 and teaches both sections of Western Civilization online and 20th Century World History. She recently published "The Development and Self-Definition of Penitential Confraternities in Seville, Spain, 1538-1563" in Confraternitas 21.1(2010). When not teaching, Mrs. Eichele keeps busy by taking care of her three children, reading, and planning her next trip to Europe.
  • John Hill John Hill Adjunct Western Civilization and U.S. (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial
  • Myrna Holstrom Myrna Holstrom Advisor (719) 502-2048 A-119, Box C38, Centennial Myrna completed her Bachelors in Political Science and Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University while working full-time in the Arizona Army National Guard as a Nuclear, Biological Chemical Warfare NCO. She then met her Air Force husband and spent several years playing the role of an officer’s wife, a position with which she was most uncomfortable! After he retired, she returned to school and completed a Masters in History at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She spends her daytime hours working in the Career Planning and Advising Office of PPCC and moonlights as Adjunct History Faculty teaching Western Civilization and History of U.S. Foreign Policy. Myrna loves exploring the history of the twentieth century, especially the World Wars (just ask her former students about how her eyes light up when discussing the origins of the First World War!). Besides spending time reading historical monographs - that she plans to foist onto her students as additional readings as part of their coursework - Myrna also enjoys Jane Austen, thrillers and spy novels, quilting, Qigong and watching her son play Little League baseball.
  • Cynthia Krutsinger Cynthia Krutsinger Adjunct Western Civilization, U.S. and 20th Century World (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial Cynthia followed what she affectionately calls the twelve year program to obtain her bachelor’s degree changing her major, schools and states many times on a fun-filled path called life. Along the way, she acquired a husband, a son, a daughter, a multitude of cats, dogs and fish and an education. After several stops and starts, she obtained her Associates Degree at PPCC before transferring to UCCS where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in History with High Distinction in 2001. In 2004 Cynthia returned to UCCS where she obtained her Master’s Degree in History in 2006. She began teaching immediately upon receiving her degree at PPCC, as well as other institutions and has never left. While she has a wide-variety of background in all areas of Western and World History, Cynthia has a particular fondness for Colonial American history as she grew up surrounded by it in the “colonial triangle” region of Tidewater Virginia. When not serving the college on committees, teaching in the classroom or online, she acts as taxi for her teenage daughter who is a dancer of some skill with a local ballet company and a competitive jazz company, and reading a variety of escapism fiction in her spare time. She’s also been known to sew and play online role-playing games when the mood strikes.
  • Shannon Leupp Shannon Leupp Adjunct Western Civilization and U.S. (719) 502-3119 DT-S210, Box D37, Downtown Studio Shannon (Sullivan) Leupp graduated with both her BA and MA at UCCS. Shannon studied Asian History, specifically Indian History, and did it all without losing her mind (well not all of it anyway). She is most certainly Irish with over 150 family members in Colorado Springs, along with a 200+ pound Great Dane named Sox. She loves reading, enjoys studying popular-culture, and has a small obsession with myths and legends. She hopes to attain her Ph.D in the near future, and countinue teaching at the college and university levels, which she loves.
  • Nate Ricks Nate Ricks Adjunct U.S. History (719) 502-3200 F-300, Box C16, Centennial Nate Ricks received a bachelor's in History Teaching and master's in US History from Brigham Young University. His master's thesis, "A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah," was awarded the Mormon History Association's Lester E. Bush Best Thesis prize in 2008. He teaches 8th grade U.S. history at Falcon Middle School and has moonlighted as an adjunct history instructor for PPCC since Summer 2008. He teaches U.S. history survey courses at PPCC, but gets especially excited about the Civil War Era, the American West, and American religious history. His ambitions for the near future include publishing a couple book projects (before they become irreparably perpetual), improving his dismal Spanish language skills, and returning to school for a history Ph.D. Teaching at PPCC is the only thing that keeps him sane; wrangling 120 8th graders daily will do that to you!
  • Glenn Rohlfing Glenn Rohlfing Faculty History of Western Civilization, World History, 20th Century World, U.S. History, The Middle Ages (719) 502-3462 DT-S226, Box D37, Downtown Studio As the newest addition to the History faculty at Pikes Peak Community College, Glenn is very familiar with his new home as he graduated from PPCC. During the waning years of his military career and like so many of our students, he came back to college to pursue a degree—in History, a pursuit that has tragically left him bald. He earned an Associate of Arts Degree in History. Transferring to University of Colorado at Colorado Springs under the 60+60 program, he soon received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees, graduating in 2005 as UCCS’s outstanding graduate student in History. During his time at UCCS, he studied Medieval Scandinavia, Jewish and Christian relations during the Middle Ages, Jesuit relations in the Americas and the British Raj. While he enjoys reading about and studying different historical eras, his passion is Medieval History. Glenn still has ambitions to obtain a Ph.D in either higher education or medieval studies, but he admits, "I may not have enough hair left to complete the endeavor. I am very excited to be teaching at Pikes Peak Community College because I find the students resourceful and eager to learn."
  • Carrie Spencer Carrie Spencer Faculty World History, Western Civilization (719) 502-3139 F-316, Box C16, Centennial Carrie spent her early years as an Air Force dependant and later as an Air Force wife traveling around the world and learning about varied cultures and their histories. She now enjoys teaching the World History courses here at PPCC and is especially passionate about Eastern studies. Her educational background includes a Master's Degree in History from the University of Colorado and a Master's Degree in Education also from the University of Colorado. Carrie loves the beautiful state of Colorado and enjoys hiking in the mountains and walking every morning. She is the mother of five sons...four of whom are also now in college. Carrie thoroughly enjoys her new role as an advisor to AA students and welcomes the chance to assist students in any way that she can.
  • Katherine Sturdevant Katherine Sturdevant Faculty U.S. History, History of the Pikes Peak Region, U.S. Family History and Genealogy, American Indian History, History of the American Sourthwest, Women in U.S. History, Colorado History, History of the American West. (719) 502-3146 W-119h, Box R16, Rampart Range Katherine Scott Sturdevant, Professor of History, has been the lead American history teacher at PPCC for over 20 years. She teaches all of the American specialties in the curriculum, including family, women’s, environmental, Native American, West, Southwest, Colorado, and Pikes Peak Region history. Kathy team-teaches learning communities (with COM Prof. Stephen Collins) that integrate U.S. History with Public Speaking or Group Communication. Kathy and Steve help other faculty offer learning communities too. Statewide, Kathy is the history chair for all community college faculty. She has won local, state, and national awards for teaching excellence. As a local history expert, she works with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum and the Pikes Peak Library District, and gives many public presentations. She has published two books on doing family history, Bringing Your Family History to Life through Social History and Organizing and Preserving Your Heirloom Documents. She also manages two historic preservation projects: one, to restore the internationally significant 1902 Victor (CO) Miners’ Union Hall where her great-grandfather was president, and the other to restore the flood-ravaged Ira Sturdevant House, the oldest house in Waverly, Iowa, built by her husband’s great-great-great grandfather in 1855. Kathy is passionate about teaching students history and helping them reach their goals through advising.
  • Karen Wagner Karen Wagner Faculty Western Civilization, History of Islamic Civilization (719) 502-3148 F-354, Box C16, Centennial An ‘almost native’ of Colorado Springs, Karen graduated from Mitchell High School in 1976, and went on to earn a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Denver, an MA in History from UCCS, and an MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. She teaches in both the History and Humanities Departments: History of Western Civilization, History of Islamic Civilization, Humanities: Early Civilizations, Humanities: from Medieval to Modern, and World Mythology. Karen says, “I have a particular interest in intellectual and cultural history, especially in those time periods when intelligence and culture appear to have been in short supply.” When not busy separating historical truth from error, Karen knits, hikes, cooks, transcribes medieval manuscripts, and reads murder mysteries, but preferably not all at once.