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Rob Thompson Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation Phone: 253-535-7495 Email: thompsrw@plu.edu Biography Biography Robert Thompson arrived at Pacific Lutheran University in August of 2013 as the Coordinator of Recreation and was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. Under Thompson’s leadership, student participation in intramural programming has increased by 40 percent through innovative marketing to students and partnerships with

Presentations Geoscience Association, Co-author Research Presentation: “ Capillary Droplets Embedded in a Lubricating Film: Enhancing rock-liquid solute transfer ” Maria Inés Dragila and Katrina M. Hay, Denver, Colorado (October 2013) Geoscience Association, Co-author Research Presentation : “ Erosion potential of capillary solitons in fluid transport through the epikarst ” Maria Inés Dragila and Katrina M. Hay, Denver, Colorado (October 2013) Symposium on Learning and Teaching, Co-author Scholarly

David Allan Cates Fiction Biography Biography David Allan Cates is the author of five novels, most recently Tom Connor’s Gift, a gold medalist in the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Book awards.  His first collection of poetry, The Mysterious Location of Kyrgyzstan, was released in the spring, 2016.  His other novels include: Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, a

Professional Memberships/Organizations National Association of Teachers of Singing , (2008 - Present) Black Box Opera Theater , (2005 - Present) Biography Equally at home in everything from Shakespeare to Sondheim and Monteverdi to Verdi, baritone Glenn Guhr has always prided himself on his versatility as a performer. He has appeared in operas, operettas, musicals, plays, and film. In recent years, he sang the baritone solos for Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Carmina Burana and played Dulcamara in The Elixir

Paul Evans Lecturer - Tuba Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: evansmp@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Tuba Responsibilities Applied Tuba Lessons, member of The Lyric Brass Quintet Biography Paul Evans is the Principal Tuba of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra and Lecturer of Tuba at Pacific Lutheran University.  An active performer in the Pacific Northwest, Paul also performs with the Northwest Sinfonietta, Bellevue

Lisa Marcus Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7312 Email: marcusls@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-E Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1995 M.A., Rutgers University, 1989 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sex, Gender, and the Holocaust The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination Comparative Holocaust and Genocide Studies Feminist, Queer, and Cultural Studies Twentieth

Edward Castro Lecturer - Trumpet Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: castroea@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., University of Washington Graduate Studies Music Pedagogy, University of Maryland M.M., Yale University B.M., The Manhattan School of Music Responsibilities Applied Trumpet Lessons Biography Dr. Edward Castro has made it his mission to educate and entertain through music. Born New York City, his formative music training started

Edward Castro Lecturer - Trumpet Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: castroea@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education D.M.A., University of Washington Graduate Studies Music Pedagogy, University of Maryland M.M., Yale University B.M., The Manhattan School of Music Responsibilities Applied Trumpet Lessons Biography Dr. Edward Castro has made it his mission to educate and entertain through music. Born New York City, his formative music training started

Diversity Religion and Ecology Books "Of Coyotes and Culverts: Salmon and the People of the Mid-Columbia River," Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Food (SUNY Press 2021) : View Book "Bringing a Berry Back From the Land of the Dead: Coast Salish Huckleberry Cultivation and Food Sovereignty," Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Food (SUNY Press 2021) : View Book Religion and Culture in Native America (Rowman and Littlefield 2020) : View

/B.A., Voice, University of Washington, 1999 Responsibilities Applied voice lessons, vocal pedagogy, and French and German diction. Accolades 2013, Songfest Mentor Program, Colburn Conservatory of School 2012, Summer Faculty Institute, Baylor University 2012, Teaching Grant, Baylor University 2011, National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program Biography Acclaimed by Opera News for her “potent” and “intense and incisive” stage presence, and praised by the Cincinnati Post as “regal in