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  • Master of Business Administration | dabab@plu.edu | Biography Maoloud Dabab is a Ph.D.

    from the University of Tripoli-Libya (2007), and six years of experience in the telecommunication industry. He also held a teaching position at Technical Engineering College. Maoloud has dedicated himself to developing his identity as a researcher. This has resulted in around 20 publications in various journals, conferences, and books. He is also a member of OMEGARHO®, American Society for Engineering Management, Portland PowerBI User Group, and Portland R User Group. He is an active reviewer at

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  • Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | 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.

    Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop.  For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless.  Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man

  • Department Chair of Political Science | Department of Political Science | chavezml@plu.edu | 253-535-7836 | Dr.

    areas of teaching and research interest include public policy, American government, Latino politics and race/ethnic politics. She is author of the book Living the Dream: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Youth (Paradigm Publishers, 2014) with Jessica Lavariega Monforti, and Melissa R. Michelson.  She is also the author of the book Everyday Injustice: Latino Professionals and Racism (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc. 2011), which won the prestigious American Political Science

  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Biology | thorm@plu.edu | 253-535-7081

    Alternative Medicine 2017: Accolades Employee of the Quarter, Unigen, Inc. September 2022 University of Arizona Molecular and Cellular Biology Department Outstanding Teaching and Mentorship Award, 2013 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholarship, 2012-2013 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Scholarship, 2011-2012

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | spatton@plu.edu | My name is Sarah Patton – I have been working as a Registered Nurse for 19 years (it goes by SO fast!).

    years of my career. I then entered a PACU residency and have worked in that setting ever since. I have been lucky enough to get excellent training in PACU Phase 1, Phase 2, Admit, and GI Special procedures. I have served as charge nurse throughout much of my career, I also spent one year as a PACU Nurse educator. Throughout my career I have always remembered my time as a student, remembering how daunting it was! That is what drove me to teaching. While this is my first year with PLU, I have served

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  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | matyacca@plu.edu | 253-535-7694 | Dr.

    Carrie Ann Matyac, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC Assistant Professor of Nursing Phone: 253-535-7694 Email: matyacca@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles FNP Lead Faculty Biography Dr. Matyac is a Family Nurse Practitioner and the Lead of the FNP Program at PLU SoN.  She practiced primarily in rural and community health (FQHC) settings throughout her 15-year career as a primary care provider.  Transitioning to a full-time academic focus, her goal is to impart the skill set and intricacies

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  • Professor of Hebrew Bible | Religion | finitsak@plu.edu | 253-535-7319 | Antonios Finitsis’ approach to biblical literature is deeply socio-historical.

    Bible, Since Dr. Finitsis is an import from Greece, it is only fair that he responds in kind by taking LUTES to Greece with his J-Term course. Up to the present, he has led over a hundred PLU students to study away in the Mediterranean. In 2018 he celebrated in style the tenth anniversary of the student driven biblical/visual interpretation competition entitled: PLU Hebrew Idol. He is proudly teaching in PLU’s General Education, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies, International Honors, and the

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Apocalypse, Darling (2018), which was short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award.

    arrive at the revelation of new understanding. Through study of creative nonfiction literary form and strategy we find new ways to uncover meaning and render actuality, which is why I ask students to analyze craft. Yet I no longer believe, as I did when I began teaching over twenty years ago, that my first job is to identify and repair flaws on your draft pages. Editing too soon is futile. Writing is revision. Critique is suggestion. First I help you identify and re-identify the intention, voice and

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - Piano | Music | erhsuan.li@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | Praised by the New York Concert Review as having “played with astonishing maturity and flair,” Dr.

    included teaching applied lessons and keyboard musicianship courses to music majors and non-music majors, as well as working as a collaborative pianist in all capacities, including vocal and instrumental studio pianist, symphonic band pianist, contemporary music ensemble keyboardist, and pianist for opera and musical productions. He is an esteemed saxophone accompaniment specialist, who has performed in multiple faculty and guest recitals, including Montana State University, Tennessee State University

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  • AV Technician | Information & Technology Services | pbrockwell@plu.edu | 253-535-7261 | Patrick is a native of Tacoma, having grown up about a mile away from the PLU campus.

    for venues ranging throughout the Seattle/Tacoma region, worked in a corporate audio visual setting, completed location audio recording projects for television and video and worked on recording and touring with his musical projects.  He looks forward to using his varied experience across the spectrum of audio and video in order to enhance the learning ecosystem at PLU.

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