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Asieh Mahyar Visiting Instructor of Music; Interim Director of Orchestral Studies Phone: 253-535-7617 Email: asieh.mahyar@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 335 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: https://www.plu.edu/symphony/ Biography Biography Passionate about performing music from different cultures, Asieh Mahyar serves as the interim Director of Orchestral Studies at Pacific Lutheran University and Symphony Orchestra Conductor at West

issues and prejudice Books Early Psychological Research Contributions of Women of Color, Volume 1 (Routledge 2023) : View Book Accolades Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching 2015-2016, Pacific Lutheran University Biography “Remember that Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels” – attributed to Ann Richards I became interested in psychology as an undergraduate at the University of Northern Colorado. I was lucky to have three professors who piqued

Stan Sanvel Rubin Founding Director Biography Biography Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.  He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program.  He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013).  Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews

Sequoia Nagamatsu Fiction Biography Biography Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the national bestselling novel, How High We Go in the Dark (William Morrow, 2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016), silver medal winner of the 2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, The Southern Review, ZYZZYVA, Tin House, Iowa Review, Lightspeed

Julie Winters Web Support Coordinator Phone: 253-535-7436 Email: winterjl@plu.edu Office Location:Printing & Mail Services Status:Working Hybrid Professional Biography Education A.A., Business, Tacoma Community College, 1983 Biography 1987-1988 Night Custodian in the Library. 1989 Housekeeper in Tingelstad. Came back in 1999 as a Custodian for a few months and then Shipping/Receiving Manager in the bookstore when it was in the University Center. Joined the staff of Marketing & Communication in

Christian Gerzso Resident Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-7491 Email: christian.gerzso@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220H Office Hours: (On Campus) M & W: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Professional Biography Education Ph.D., English Literature, New York University, 2012 B.A., English Language and Literature, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Late nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature and culture Multidisciplinary

Justin St. Germain Fiction, Nonfiction Biography Biography Justin St. Germain is the author of Bookmarked: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, part of IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series, and the memoir Son of a Gun (Random House, 2013), which won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was named a best book of the year by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Salon, Library Journal, and others. His nonfiction and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The

J. Murphy-Mancini Paul Fritts Endowed Chair; Assistant Professor of Music, Organ he/him/his Email: jjm@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Doctor of Philosophy, Composition, University of California, San Diego, 2019 Master of Music, Historical Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2014 Bachelor of Music, Composition and Organ Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 2014 Bachelor of Art, Philosophy, Oberlin College, 2013 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Applied organ lessons Class

Jonathan M. Rizzardi Visiting Assistant Professor of Education They/Them Phone: 301-788-8270 Email: rizzardi@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Theatre History and Performance Studies, University of Washington, ABD M.A.T., Secondary English & Theatre, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2013 B.A., English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2012 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Theatre History and Performance Studies Arts Integration & Arts Education Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies

Kwong-Tin (K.T.) Tang Professor Emeritus of Physics Phone: 253-535-7539 Email: tangka@plu.edu Status:Emeritus Professional Biography Education Postdoctoral Study, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley & Harvard University Ph.D., Physics - Dissertation: "Elastic and Reactive Scattering in the (H, H2) System", Columbia University, 1965 M.A., Mathematics - Thesis: "Random Walk and Diffusion Processes", University of Washington, Seattle, 1959 B.S., Engineering Physics, University of