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Matthew Altman earned his BA from Albion College in 1994 (with a double major in philosophy and English) and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2001. He came to Central in 2003.

In his home department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Dr. Altman teaches several courses in the history of philosophy, applied ethics, the philosophy of law, and the philosophy of art. In the William O. Douglas Honors College, he has taught two upper-division seminars, “Animals, Human and Nonhuman” and “Punishment,” as well as the sequence of junior-level courses, covering Montaigne to Kierkegaard, when the DHC was a Great Books program. He is teaching a course on “Mass Incarceration” for the first time in Winter 2022. Dr. Altman was Director of the Douglas Honors College from 2007 to 2013.

Dr. Altman’s research is broadly divided into two areas: (1) the history of philosophy and (2) practical philosophy. He has published six books: three as single author (A Companion to Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” [2008], Kant and Applied Ethics [2011], and A Theory of Legal Punishment [2021]); one as co-author (The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy [2013]); and two as editor (The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism [2014] and The Palgrave Kant Handbook [2017]). He is in the process of editing The Palgrave Handbook on the Philosophy of Punishment (forthcoming in 2022). He has also published numerous articles and chapters in edited collections on such topics as capital punishment, physician-assisted suicide, same-sex marriage, mandatory ultrasound laws, the use of torture on terrorist suspects, and the Syrian civil war. He is series editor of both Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism and Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law.

Dr. Altman was named University Distinguished Professor of Service in 2019, Research in 2015, and Teaching (Non-Tenure-Track) in 2009. He was elected and currently serves on the Board of Commissioners for Public Hospital District 1.

A fun fact about Dr. Altman is that he was the director of the Honors College from Fall 2007-Spring 2013.

Gary Bartlett is from New Zealand, and has two honors BAs from the University of Otago, which is in Dunedin (but surely you knew that, didn’t you?). He came to the US in 1998 to attend graduate school in Philosophy at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He received his PhD in 2006, spent one year at Haverford College (near Philadelphia), and then started at Central in Fall 2007.

Dr. Bartlett works primarily in the analytic tradition in philosophy. In particular, his main interests are philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and cognitive science. So it won’t surprise you to learn that his two BAs are in Philosophy and Psychology. He has published a number of articles on questions about the mind: in particular, is your mind entirely in your head? (maybe not). And can we understand the nature of consciousness? (not right now; ask again in a few years). In 2015 he received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award from the College of Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Bartlett also teaches classes in early modern philosophy, philosophy of science, theory of knowledge, and philosophy and science fiction; and with Dr. Ralf Greenwald of the Psychology Department he has team-taught a popular class on consciousness for the Douglas Honors College. More recently he has begun to develop an interest in philosophy for children, and more broadly in philosophy of education.

Gayla Bauer Blaisdell has been on the faculty of Central Washington University since 2008 where she is an Associate Professor and is the Vocal Area Coordinator. She has a vibrant studio of aspiring singers and directs the nationally award-winning CWU Opera Ensemble. In addition to her work at CWU, Gayla is a sought after masterclass clinician and pedagogue in the areas of vocal performance, opera directing and feminist musicology.

In addition to teaching, she has maintained a busy performance schedule. Gayla appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and made her Carnegie Hall debut as soprano soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the American Composers Orchestra. She has sung in many major New York City venues including Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space, among others. In New York, she performed regularly with the Azure Ensemble, a contemporary chamber ensemble and was featured in a recital at the Kosciuszko Foundation by the American Accent Concert Series. Gayla often appears with the CWU ensembles to premiere contemporary works and collaborates with colleagues from CWU and around the country in recitals here in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere.

Gayla has appeared at Benaroya Hall in Seattle as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana by Orff, the soprano soloist in the Hovhaness Magnificat and as a featured soloist in a concert with the Seattle Wind Symphony. She was a soloist with the Synergia Northwest Ensemble in McCaw Hall. Gayla has appeared with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra several times; performing orchestrated Schubert lieder, as the soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem and a concert of Verdi and Wagner arias and duets with her tenor husband, Tor Blaisdell. Gayla joined the Wenatchee Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro as the Countess. Soon, Gayla will be releasing a CD of vocal/piano music featuring music written by Elaine Ross and a set of songs by Stephen Paulus.

Gayla holds a Ph.D in Vocal Performance from New York University where she was a member of the NYU Adjunct Voice Faculty for seven years. She has established herself as a scholar in feminist theory and opera presenting her work at national and regional venues since the completion of her dissertation in the field. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Opera and a Masters Degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory and a Bachelors Degree in Voice and a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from the Eastman School of Music. Gayla also trained at the Steans Institute at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Opera North, the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy and Dorian Opera Theater.

Degrees:
New York University
Ph.D Vocal Performance

New England Conservatory
M.M. in Voice Performance
G.D. Opera

The Eastman School of Music
B.M. Voice
B.M. Music Education

Stuart Boersma received his B.S. from the University of Puget Sound, his Ph.D. from Oregon State University, and is currently a professor of mathematics at Central Washington University. He enjoys working with students on independent research projects and has supervised projects in General Relativity, Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Topology, and Cryptology. His students have presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, Pacific Northwest Section of the Mathematical Association of America, and CWU’s SOURCE. He is a co-founder of the international undergraduate codebreaking competition, Kryptos, and enjoys designing cryptology-related puzzle-solving experiences for people of all ages.

Michael Braunstein has been a physics professor for more than 25 years. He is particularly enthusiastic about effective teaching in the physics undergraduate curriculum, the undergraduate physics advanced laboratory curriculum, and mentoring undergraduate research. His current most active areas of experimental work include optics and quantum optics, atomic physics, gamma spectroscopy, and laboratory applications of electronics.

Cynthia Coe has been at Central since 2003, and she specializes in contemporary European philosophy (especially the work of Emmanuel Levinas), feminist theory, 19th century philosophy, critical race theory, and the philosophy of history. She received her PhD from the University of Oregon and her BA from Middlebury College, where she majored in Philosophy (what else should you major in?) and minored in Russian History and Russian Language (somewhat randomly).

She is primarily interested in a range of issues around subjectivity: who counts as a subject? what is responsibility? what is the role of memory in identity and epistemic authority? how have interpretations of gender, race, and animality been used to define the ideal subject in modern thought? She has published numerous articles on these ideas, as well as two books: The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (co-authored with Matthew Altman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and Intrigues of Time: Levinas and the Trauma of Responsibility (under contract with Indiana University Press).

Dr. Coe served as Director of the Women's and Gender Studies program from 2007 until 2014, and she was named the University Distinguished Professor of Service in 2015. She has also received the College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Faculty Research Award, the College of Arts and Humanities Outstanding Faculty Service Award, and the CWU Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award.

Anne Cubilié moved to CWU in August of 2013 following 10 years working for the United Nations. Dr. Cubilie was Director of the William O. Douglas Honors College (DHC) for two years, moving to the position of Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Extended Learning in 2015. After two years as Associate Provost, Dr. Cubilie returned to her position at the DHC to work more closely with students and faculty on the shared educational mission of the university. At the United Nations, Dr. Cubilie worked in humanitarian response and development policy both at headquarters and in the field. She joined the United Nations from Georgetown University, where she was an assistant professor. Throughout her time at the United Nations, Dr. Cubilié maintained close ties to the academy and consistent interest in bridging the gap between academic research and the political and policy considerations of international aid.

Dr. Cubilie has lived and worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Egypt. Her book, Women Witness Terror: Testimony and the Cultural Politics of Human Rights, reads a testimony by women survivors of war and human rights abuse through critical frameworks of ethics, trauma, and witnessing. While most people consider testimony to be that of an individual telling her story to give voice to the stories of all those who experienced the event, Dr. Cubilié considers the very instability of the narrative testimonial voice to be a generative source for a more engaged and less purely juridical consideration of human rights. In her work for the United Nations – ranging from the collection of survivor testimony in Afghanistan to policy guidance for an emergency response to major reports and funding documents – she maintained an insistence on remembering the individual within the broadest international discourses. She has co-edited a special issue of the journal Discourse on "The Future of Testimony," has given numerous lectures both in the US and internationally on testimony, ethics, human rights and trauma, was awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship and has served as a joint United Nations/American University of Cairo visiting scholar conducting research into women’s relationships to state structures. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the University of Oregon, graduating from the Robert D. Clark Honors College.

Elvin Delgado joined CWU in 2012 after completing his Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at Syracuse University. His research and teaching interests lie in energy and capitalism, political ecology, political economy and nature, environment and development, and health geography. Dr. Delgado is particularly interested in the close relationship that exists between nature and society in Latin America and the Caribbean. He has developed a research agenda that critically explores changing patterns of human-environment interactions in the context of fossil fuel production in Venezuela. Empirically, Dr. Delgado’s research explores processes of socio-political struggles over resource development, the multi-scalar interconnections of the material flows of natural resources, and the socio-ecological transformations associated with resource extraction industries. His doctoral dissertation – entitled Spaces of Socio-Ecological Distress: Fossil Fuels, Solar Salt and Fishing Communities in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela – examines how the livelihoods and health of rural fishing communities in Lake Maracaibo have been affected as a result of industrial production of solar salt used mostly for the extraction of oil and natural gas.

Dr. Delgado’s research reveals how processes of socio-ecological distress associated with the extraction of oil and natural gas not only happens in-situ, but are also re-produced in areas away from the extraction sites as result of the extensive spatial reach of fossil fuels. He argues that what has been missing from all the academic discussions among political ecologists and critical resource geographers around the social, political, economic and environmental consequences associated with the production of oil and natural gas in the past decades is the active role that salt plays in the commodification of fossil fuels. This research suggests that in order to conceptualize these processes, it is crucial to understand the close relationship that exists between oil and natural gas extraction, petrochemical transformations and salt production, paying special attention to their material and institutional interconnections at different geographic scales.

Christina Denison, a first-generation college student, is a Wildcat through and through having earned both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Central Washington University. Before becoming part of the team in the Douglas Honors College, Christina worked as a legal assistant; however, when CWU offered her an opportunity to do something a bit different she jumped at the chance. Starting as an office assistant in the Honors College, Christina took every opportunity she could to learn and do more which resulted in becoming the Secretary, then the Academic and Student Success Coordinator, the Assistant Director, and now the Associate Director of the DHC. She is currently working on her EdD in Education Leadership at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.

Christina enjoys spending time with her two daughters and her husband Jim, a local attorney. In the winter months, when not spending time with her family, you will find her shushing down the runs at Mission Ridge Ski & Board Resort in Wenatchee. All the other months she spends time wishing it was winter.

A native of Montana, Jason Dormady is a former farm laborer, reporter, and advertising designer. He holds his PhD in Mexican History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His published histories focus on religious minorities and popular interpretations of Revolution in Mexico, but he has recently shifted focus toward popular responses to urban planning and hygiene codes. Dr. Dormady enjoys arguing about Liberation Theology, politics, Latin America, goats vs. sheep, apple varieties and the virtues of not raking your yard leaves. When not grading papers and writing, he enjoys hiking with his children, playing table-top games with his spouse, traveling in Mexico, reading and learning about alternative pedagogies.

Ruthi Roth Erdman lived in Portland, Oregon her first 28 years. She very nearly went to law school there, but decided that working with university students held much more appeal than practicing law, so she came to CWU in 1988.

Ruthi began by teaching English, but eventually branched out into interdisciplinary courses in Humanities, WGSS, and the Honors College.

When she's not teaching, Ruthi fights for a more just world, attending many protests and marches. She also enjoys traveling abroad, reading, singing, taking long walks, and spending time with her grandchildren.

Dr. Anne Egger's work in geoscience education research includes developing and testing new curricular materials for use in undergraduate teaching, analysis of national trends in faculty teaching practices through surveys and syllabi, the use of analogies, and alignment of standards with assessments. She is interested in combining field observations with geochronological and geophysical data to learn more about active tectonic environments. Dr. Egger has used tools such as geologic mapping, lidar (light detection and ranging), radiocarbon geochronology, gravity and magnetic mapping and modeling, and paleoseismic trenching to decipher the faulting history and current structural setting of a region, primarily the Basin and Range.

Born in Denver, Colorado, oboist Scott Erickson has performed throughout the Americas. While pursuing his doctorate at Florida State University, he was appointed Principal Oboe of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Bolivia, and he taught at the National Conservatory in La Paz. His unique experiences have given him an adventurous musical personality, and his pursuits for newer sounds and ideas manifested themselves in performances of both written and improvised music with the Bold City Contemporary Ensemble in Jacksonville, Florida.

​Erickson is a frequent performer in orchestras throughout the United States, with performances in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Coastal Symphony of Georgia, Pensacola Symphony, Ocala Symphony, Panama City Pops, Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, and the Albany (Georgia) Symphony. Additionally, he has given concerto performances in the United States, Canada, and Bolivia.
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In 2018, Erickson joined the faculty at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA. He was awarded his doctorate in oboe performance at Florida State University, where he also earned his master’s degree, studying with Dr. Eric Ohlsson. He received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Wyoming with a dual emphasis on oboe and flute, studying with Dr. Lindsey Bird-Reynolds and Dr. Nicole Riner, respectively. He is an active performer and educator, and he maintains a reed making business in Ellensburg (www.ericksonreeds.com).

B.A. Brigham Young University – International Relations

M.S. Brigham Young University – Geography/Planning

Taught at Cypress Junior College CA 1987-1990

CWU Geography Department 1993-present

Honors Department – Winter 2023

Classes taught include Political Geography, World Regional Geography, Geography of the Middle East, Geography of Russia (and more)

She was born in England and spent the first few years of her life in Ghana, then mostly raised in Portugal. Have traveled across Russia on the Trans Siberian Railroad (2013) and was in Israel in 2018

Ms. Green holds a Master of Arts from San Francisco State University and is currently completing a PhD with the Universidad Autónoma in Madrid, Spain. She lived and worked in Madrid as a journalist for 12 years. Her experience spans magazines (The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International), newspapers (The Washington Post), television (ABC News, ESPN), online (Common Sense Media) and radio (BBC Radio). Ms. Green's specialties are film criticism, magazine journalism, international correspondence and entertainment reporting. She has covered the film industries of Europe and Latin America for two decades, which has included sitting on juries and covering film festivals across Europe and writing and editing books on the industry. Her current freelance activities include contributions to The Hollywood Reporter, film reviews for Common Sense Media, and a regular newspaper column curating and reviewing international films available for home viewing for The Daily Record. You can access much of her recent work on her website, Films from Afar. Ms. Green serves as faculty adviser in the Digital Journalism program for the award-winning, student-run lifestyle magazine, PULSE.

Ph.D., Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas, Dallas

I am the director of the Brain Dynamics & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab here at CWU and also the Director of the Experimental Psychology Masters Program. My research interests mainly deal with brain dynamics and the cognitive electrophysiology of the brain, specifically utilizing brain event-related potentials (ERPs) to study human cognition.

General areas of interest: Cognitive brain dynamics, event-related potentials, teaching pedagogy, general cognitive psychology, working memory, music cognition

Courses typically taught at CWU:

PSY 460 - Cognitive Psychology

PSY 478 - Behavioral Neuroscience

PSY 578 – Applied Clinical Neuroscience

PSY 421/521 - Human Neuroanatomy

Mike Harrod is an Assistant Professor here in the Department of Sociology. He earned his degree at the University of California, Riverside. Primary areas of interest lie in social psychology, criminology, and research methods. However, Harrod is also interested in a fairly wide array of sociological topics above and beyond these.

Dr. Johnson is the Department Chair and the Program coordinator of French. He earned his PhD at Emory University in French and Comparative Literature in 2005. Among his teaching and research interests are medieval literature, gender and sexuality, Franco-Belgian comics, French and Spanish language, and grammar.

Bernadette Jungblut will join Central Washington University as associate provost for accreditation, academic planning, and assessment on March 1.

In announcing her appointment, Stephen Hulbert, CWU provost and vice president for academic and student life, said, “She brings broad executive experience to the university, especially in the areas of planning, assessment, and accreditation. I look forward to her taking a strong leadership role in these critically important administrative areas.”

At CWU, Jungblut will lead university efforts in the areas of accreditation, academic program planning and assessment, strategic planning, and general education. It’s similar to the work she did at West Virginia University (WVU) where she was the WVU executive director for academic success initiatives and the first-year experience, and university assessment officer in the Office of the Provost. Jungblut also has experience working with Student Support Services and the McNair Scholars Program, two federally funded initiatives that are also offered at CWU.

“I was a low-income, first generation in college student and am married to a low-income, first-generation, person of color,” she noted. “The opportunity to serve students from backgrounds similar to ours was—and remains—deeply important to me.”

In terms of student success, she says one of her greatest joys has been seeing students investigate subjects of interest to them through their undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral research.

Jungblut received her bachelor’s degree at Binghamton University and her master’s and PhD degrees at Rice University, all in political science. She has also worked for the New York State Attorney General’s Office; Commercial Data International, Inc.; Bowling Green State University; and the University of Central Florida.

Dominic Klyve (KLEE-vee) is a Professor of Mathematics at Central Washington University. He is the author of more than 50 papers in number theory, the history of mathematics and science, and applied statistics. His interdisciplinary works have appeared in journals ranging from Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to Shakespeare Quarterly. Klyve has been nationally recognized for promoting the use of primary sources in the teaching of mathematics, and currently serves as a PI on $1.5 Million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop classroom materials for this purpose. He was a 2014 winner of the MAA’s Alder Award, a national teaching award for young faculty who have a demonstrated impact within and beyond the classroom. He currently serves as editor of the College Mathematics Journal, and as Lead Polymath at KnowLabs.

Matt Martinson was born and raised in Washington state. He has earned degrees at four different schools in the state, focusing on literature and religion, though he is also fascinated by art and history. He teaches a wide variety of courses for the DHC, where he is also the Writing Curriculum Coordinator.

Professor Melbourne's research is focused on modeling seismic waveform and GPS deformation data. He heads the Pacific Northwest Geodetic Array, which uses continuous GPS to monitor crustal deformation throughout the Cascadia subduction zone, and in particular the slow earthquakes which frequently occur along the Cascadia plate interface fault. He teaches seismology, geophysics, and introductory geology.

Aaron Montgomery is a faculty member in Mathematics. He has studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Pomona College, Oxford University, and University of Wisconsin. He has taught Mathematics at University of Memphis, Purdue University, and Central Washington University. Academically, he is interested in the connections between mathematics and other fields of study (notably, philosophy, but also physics, decision theory, and recreational games). Outside of academia, he enjoys tabletop gaming and outdoor pursuits such as mountain biking, backpacking, kayaking, and skiing.

I have taught at CWU since 1993, Some historians say that is just before the previous Mayan Long Count calendar started. After messing up the futures of some secondary school students by teaching them science for a couple of years, I went to the University of Minnesota for my PhD in Science Education. Over the past few years at CWU, I’ve taught Introductory Astronomy; General Physics; Issues in Science and Religion (which is another DHC course!); Teaching Elementary Science Inquiry; Why People Believe Dumb Things; and Perspectives on Science, Mathematics, and STEM Education. I have also helped design the Perspectives course for the new STEM Teaching Program with Distinguished DHC Dude Dominic (D4) Klyve.

In Winter 2020, I’ll be teaching DHC 161: Astronomy and Mythology, an inquiry-based introduction to celestial motions, celestial objects, and observational astronomy. We will study the celestial mythologies, astronomical findings and observational tools of a variety of cultures and ask the key question “How do we know what we know?”

Dr. Pearson received her doctorate in Health Science from the University of Arkansas. Her Master of Public Health degree is from New Mexico State University, and her Bachelor of Arts degree is from Humboldt State University. Dr. Pearson has taught at Dona Aña Community College in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and at the University of Arkansas.

Dr. Pearson has published in the areas of payday lending, food affordability and other food access issues, college student attitudes toward eating patterns, adolescent eating and physical activity, and applying ecological models to nurses' risk of being overweight.

Dr. Andrew Piacsek's primary area of interest and expertise is physical acoustics, which is the study of mechanical waves and related phenomena. He is interested in waves of all kinds, from sound waves in a trumpet to sonic booms to tsunamis; that such disparate phenomena are united by similar mathematics is especially intriguing. His background is primarily theoretical and computational, but most of hsi projects with students involve pairing experiments with computer models to investigate wave behavior.

Dr. Shawn Reichert earned his Associate of Arts at Carl Albert State College in Poteau, OK; his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK; a Master of Arts in Political Science at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR; a second Master of Arts in Political Science at Rice University in Houston, TX; and his Ph.D. in Political Science also at Rice University. His published research includes work in political economy, the European Union, European politics, and Latin American politics. At the DHC, Dr. Reichert teaches courses in Social and Behavioral Dynamics and Integrated Learning including, Conspiracism, Conspiracy Theories, and American Politics; Difficult Decision Making: Individuals, Groups, and States; and Democracies and Democratic Theory. He also teaches the upper-division Honors Seminar: Elements of Research and the Honors Capstone Seminar. In addition, Dr. Reichert serves as the CWU Institutional Effectiveness Research Coordinator. His responsibilities include working with colleagues from across the university to refine research questions and determine the data required and the methods of analyses to be employed to answer those questions. He provides support for retention, progression, and degree completion reporting and for the enhanced understanding of the impact of various programs housed in Student Success, the William O. Douglas Honors College, and the other four academic colleges. In his free time, Dr. Reichert enjoys spending time outdoors, reading, and spoiling his three cats.

An artist-scholar, Emily Rollie's work spans theatre practice and scholarship, finding ways for each area to fuel the other. Dr. Rollie completed her PhD in Theatre from the University of Missouri, and received her Master’s degree in Theatre Production at CWU, where she directed The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, a touring children’s production, for her MA thesis project.

Her primary research areas include women and feminist theatre, Canadian theatre, directing practice and theory, and theatre for social change. She has had work published in Theatre Annual: A Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas, Theatre Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, SDC Journal (peer-reviewed section), Theatre Survey, and Theatre History Studies. Most recently, her article “‘And we are here’: Performance, Reality, and Canadian National Identity in Electric Company Theatre’s Tear the Curtain!” was nominated for the ATDS Vera Mowry Roberts Award, and her article on directing feminist solo women performers appeared in the edited volume About Directing (edited by Anna Migliarsi). Her current book project considers the ways Canadian women directors negotiate issues related to power, gender, and other intersectional identities in their artistic work.

As an artist/director, Dr. Rollie has directed in venues around the country and spent five years as the artistic director of Independent Actors Theatre (IAT), a "purposefully nomadic" theatre company, which became known for its annual short Women's Play Festival (the plays are short, not the women!). She also was the associate director of the Troubling Violence Performance Project (TVPP), a group dedicated to opening lines of communication about issues of relationship violence through the performance of personal narratives, for four years, and she began a second branch of TVPP in 2014.

An active member of multiple professional organizations, Dr. Rollie is the focus group representative for the Directing Program, part of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). She also is a member of the Executive Board of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) as well as a member of the new CATR Task Force on Adjunct, Graduate Student, and Alternative Academic Career Advocacy. She regularly attends and has held positions for the Mid-America Theatre Conference. She is also an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and serves as an assistant editor for the SDC Journal – Peer Reviewed Section.

Dr. Allyson Rogan-Klyve holds a BA in chemistry and religion from Hamline University, a M.Ed in science education from the University of Massachusetts, and a PhD in science education from Oregon State University. Dr. Rogan-Klyve joined CWU as an assistant professor in 2016. Dr. Rogan-Klyve is a faculty member in the Science Education Department and serves as the Upper Division Coordinator in the William O. Douglas Honors College. Dr. Rogan-Klyve’s research focuses on understanding high leverage teaching practices in the K-12 science classroom as well as developing pedagogies to teach these practices to novice teachers.

Christopher Schedler was born and raised in California, with a quick detour east to pursue his B.A. in English and Religion at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He returned to the west coast to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He joined the English Department at CWU in Fall 2003. His teaching and research interests include American Literature , Multicultural Literatures (particularly American Indian and Latino/a), Latin American Literatures, Modernism, and Border Theory. He has published one book, Border Modernism: Intercultural Readings in American Literary Modernism (Routledge 2002) , as well as articles on Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Américo Paredes, Alejandro Morales, Gerald Vizenor, and John Joseph Mathews. He was honored with the Outstanding Faculty Service Award for 2013-14 and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for 2008-09 from the College of Arts and Humanities and the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2005-06 given by the Alumni Association of CWU. He was Co-Director of the Latino and Latin American Studies program from 2010-12 and served as Faculty Director and Executive Director of Multimodal Learning from 2012-18, overseeing online learning, distance education, and the Multimodal Education Center on campus.

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Dr. Takei's education includes a B.A. in Economics, and two master's degrees: an M.B.A. and an M.S. in International Business. He earned his doctoral degree in international business and wrote his dissertation on the hybridization mechanism of international corporate governance models based on the path dependence and the pareto-optimal theories.

Having worked in a wide variety of countries and cultures, including Japan, the USA and Europe, Dr. Takei brings a unique, multi-cultural perspective. He shares his broad professional experience including global management (organizational behaviors, marketing, training and education), cross-cultural interaction and communication issues in organizations, Japanese management science, and the strategic aspects of administration and retailing in an international context.

Dr. Takei's professional experience includes teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level as an Assistant Professor of International Business at Juanita College, and three years working for City University of Seattle/VSM in Slovakia. He has also taught at City University of Seattle in Bulgaria. Outside of academia he has experience as a localization advisor, a foreign customer training consultant, an IPO staff, a founder of a small business, a marketing consultant, and as an education program developer. He is also a certified retail sales specialist by the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

When not at work Dr. Takei loves karaoke, eating good food, driving cars, hiking, teaching and playing the guitar. He believes that students and their professors have a respected mutual commitment in learning. Both must share responsibility and work proactively to create a positive learning partnership. He works hard to make sure my students complete his class successfully and with the certainty that they have gained useful information.

Maya Jewell Zeller is the author of the interdisciplinary collaboration (with visual artist Carrie DeBacker) Alchemy For Cells & Other Beasts (Entre Rios Books, 2017), the chapbook Yesterday, the Bees (Floating Bridge Press, 2015), and the poetry collection Rust Fish (Lost Horse Press, 2011); her prose appears in such places as Brevity, Bellingham Review, and Booth Journal. Recipient of a Promise Award from the Sustainable Arts Foundation as well as a Residency in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, Maya has presented her work internationally at the University of Oxford and in Madrid at the Unamuno Author Festival. Currently, she teaches writing for Central Washington University and edits for Scablands Books, and is at work on a memoir called “Raised by Ferns.” Find her on Twitter @MayaJZeller or visit mayajewellzeller.com for more info.