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  • Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities | Religion | killenpo@plu.edu | Patricia O’Connell Killen, professor emerita, taught courses in the Department of Religion and in the International Core at PLU from 1989 through 2010.

    ) : View Book Selected Letters of A.M.A. Blanchet, Bishop of Walla Walla and Nesqualy, 1846-1879. Edited with Roberta Stringham Brown. (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2013) : View Book Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone. Primary Editor. Lanham (MD: Alta Mira Press 2004) : View Book Finding Our Voices: Women, Wisdom and FaithFaith (NY: Crossroad Publishing Company 1997) : View Book The Art of Theological Reflection (NY: Crossroad Publishing 1994) : View Book

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | rizzardi@plu.edu | 301-788-8270 | Jonathan M.

    and wellness, stewardship for student populations in juvenile detention centers and drug rehabilitation facilities, and creating alongside youth in the foster care system. Their scholarship unpacks how acts of education, maturation, and coming-of-age intersect with theatre and public performance in the early twentieth century United States, and unravels queer readings of teaching and learning as mechanisms of citizen-making in the theatrical past. Rizzardi hopes to use theatre scholarship to

  • Paul Fritts Endowed Chair; Assistant Professor of Music, Organ | Music | jjm@plu.edu | Justin J.

    representative of the Young Organist Collaborative (Portsmouth, NH), an organization founded to support the next generation of organists. Justin has served as Clerk of the Old West Organ Society and as a trustee of the Methuen Memorial Music Hall, where he continues to support their work as a Friend of the Hall. Jay has served as a sacred musician in a variety of church communities across the US for over 20 years. From 2019-24, he was Director of Church Music at the First Religious Society, Unitarian

  • Associate Professor of Music; Director of Band Studies; Advising Associate for Music | Music | gerharrc@plu.edu | 253-535-7609 | Ron Gerhardstein is the Director of Band Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University.

    Lutheran University. Dr. Gerhardstein has enjoyed a long career as a music educator in public school and collegiate settings. At PLU, he currently directs the Wind Ensemble and teaches coursework in the music education curriculum, including: Band Repertoire and Rehearsal, Woodwind Labs I/II, Percussion Lab, Music and Culture, PLUS 100: Transitions to PLU. Dr. Gerhardstein earned a Ph.D. in music education from Temple University where he studied with Edwin Gordon and Beth Bolton. He also attended the

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  • Assistant Professor of Communication, Film & Media Studies | Communication, Media & Design Arts | bphipps@plu.edu | 253-535-7573 | Dr.

    Division 2024 Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Maryland, 2022 Outstanding Service Award, University of Maryland, 2022 Summer Teaching Curriculum Development Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2022 Twitch 2021 Research Fellowship Finalist, Twitch Interactive Inc., 2021 COMM Public Good Fellowship for Curriculum Development, University of Maryland, 2022 Bob and Linda Haskins Award for Graduate Teaching, Colorado State University, 2018 Biography Dr. E. Brooke Phipps is originally from central

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  • Professor of English | Department of English | barotrp@plu.edu | 253-535-7318 | Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A.

    published by Milkweed Editions in 2020. The Galleons was listed on the top ten poetry books for 2020 by the New York Public Library and was on the longlist for the National Book Award. Also in 2020, his chapbook During the Pandemic was published by Albion Books. His new book of poems, Moving the Bones, is forthcoming in 2024 from Milkweed Editions. Mentor. Workshops and classes in poetry. Oversight of program. Statement:  “I’ve always been intrigued by these two connotations of the word craft—that it

  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    fellowships for her creative nonfiction from 4Culture, Artist Trust, the Seattle City/Artist Program, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. Fellowships for her poetry translations have come from Cornell University, Fulbright commission, National Endowment for the Arts, and University of Iowa. She has served as Artist/Translator/Writer in Residence at 28 institutions, including six universities, five national parks, two visual arts centers, and a public hospital. Wendy writes, edits, and translates books in

  • Professor Emeritus | Music | Born in 1956 in Beirut, Lebanon, Gregory Youtz received his B.M.

      If We Sell You Our Land based on the famous speech by Chief Seattle was the subject of a story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition show in 1987 and his subsequent opera Songs from the Cedar House based on the history and legends of Indian and White cultural interaction in the Pacific Northwest premiered in February of 1991 at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His other compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, voice and chamber ensembles, and a one-act opera

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education | Music | justin.lader@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Justin Lader received his PhD in music and human learning from The University of Texas at Austin, Master’s degree in viola performance with emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and Bachelor’s of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory.

    Strings Program. From 2013-2014 Dr. Lader taught world music at the The Village School, a Public Charter School inspired by Waldorf Education, in Eugene, Oregon. From 2014 to 2019 he conducted the strings program at the Eugene Waldorf School. In 2015 he created, directed, and taught at The Shedd Institutes Chamber Strings camp. The summer 2016 he taught and directed The Shedd’s Chamber Music Camp, in addition to a Beginning Strings Camp, as well as guest instructed at the Off The Hook Arts Summer

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  • Professor of Physics | Department of Physics | hay@plu.edu | 253-535-7999 | I enjoy explaining physics concepts on a level that is understandable.

    in Physics Vol. 16, 2013: "560 multiple choice questions with answer-specific feedback (Online Quizzes) (Scholarship of Teaching) requested by editor, for the publisher W. H. Freeman to accompany new textbook." University Physics for Life Science July 2012: "Physics of energy as a travel course." (Public Intellectual, article) published in EnergyTeachers.org Community Newsletter. Ithaca, NY February 2012: K. Hay and M. Dragila. "Physics of Fluid Spreading on Roughness." Special Issue on Modeling

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