Jonathan Marshall teaches courses in comparative politics, East Asian politics, constitutional law, and law and society. His research focuses on legal mobilization and citizen litigants in Japan, where he lived from 1988 to 1989 and from 1997 to 2000. His publications include "Freedom of Information, Legal Mobilization, and the Taxpayer Suit Boom in Japan" (Harvard University Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Occasional Paper 04-06) and "Casual Cynics or Disillusioned Democrats? Political Alienation in Japan" (Political Psychology 21 (December 2000) 779-804).

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Rick Matthews taught for five years at Ohio University before arriving at Carthage. During his tenure, he received the Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Sciences. He also was nominated for the University Professor Teaching Award.

Mr. Matthews specializes in criminology, specifically juvenile delinquency, criminal justice and corporate crime. His most recent publications have appeared in Homicide Studies, Sociological Focus, and Critical Criminology. His primary research interests include corporate crimes, as well as the relationship between economic conditions and homicide rates.

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Bill Miller has published articles on risk taking, gambling, juvenile delinquency and homicide, among other topics. His work has been published in a number of scholarly journals including The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Sociological Focus and Homicide Studies. He has presented research at a variety of professional meetings, served as a reviewer for a number of academic journals ,and he currently serves on the board for Women and Children’s Horizons. His current research examines mixed martial arts fighting and poker. Dr. Miller earned his B.A. and M.A. from Ohio University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. He joined the Carthage faculty in 2000.

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Michael Phegley joined the Carthage faculty in 2004 after serving as an adjunct professor at Carthage and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Mr. Phegley is an attorney with Phegley, Laufenberg & Jensen, a practice that concentrates on family, criminal, labor and employment law, as well as alternative dispute resolution. He also serves as a Judicial Court Commissioner for Racine County, presiding over hearings involving juvenile, criminal, traffic, probate and civil law matters. He is a certified mediator and previously served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for the State Bar of Wisconsin.

Mr. Phegley is the faculty advisor for the Carthage Mock Trial Team and the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity. He teaches Legal Environment of Business, Business Law for Accountants and Mock Trial.

Mr. Phegley is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin and a member and past president of the Racine County Bar Association. He is the president of the board of directors for the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Alumni Association and the vice-chair of the board of directors for St. Catherine's High School in Racine, Wis., in addition to his involvement with other community service organizations.

Wayne Luther Thompson is an expert in criminology and the sociology of religion. Most of his research looks at religion's effects on human behavior. He has published in the areas of church growth and decline and the religious behavior of baby boomers. He is currently the President-Elect of the Wisconsin Sociological Association. Professor Thompson's current research is The Social Ecology of Congregations Project, which provides research and planning information for congregations and examines the impact they have on their communities.

Professor Thompson joined the Carthage faculty in the fall term of 1998 as director of the Criminal Justice Program and associate professor of sociology. He came to Carthage from Concordia University in River Forest, Ill., where he was associate professor of sociology.