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Historian of American Theatre and Religious Movements; Singer/Songwriter; Public Presentations Consultant

Re-Voicing Silenced Histories through Scholarship, Story, and Song

 

Adjunct Professor, Communication and Humanities

Immediate Past (retired) Professor, Chair, and Graduate Director, Department of Communication

 

Immediate past President, Maryland Communication Association, 2022

PhD, Speech: Theatre, University of Oregon, 1989

Mentors: Grant McKernie (1942-2018), Theatre & Culture; Jack Watson (1942-2014), Theatre History, International Dramatic Literature; Peter A. Davis, Theatre History; Robert Barton, (1945-2025), Acting; Faber DeChaine (1928-2019), Directing, Dramatic Literature

Dissertation: “ ‘Doing the Word’: Heinrich Böll’s Aesthetik des Humanen as a Theory of Dramatic Production” (1989)

MA, Theology and the Arts / Ethics, Pacific School of Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1985

Mentors, Pacific School of Religion: Wayne R. Rood (1915-2000), Theatre; Doug Adams (1945-2007), Theology and the Arts; Karen Lebacqz, Ethics; Stephen Breck Reid, Old Testament Studies; Robert McAfee Brown (1920-2001), World Theology and Ecumenism

Mentors, Graduate Theological Union: William Herzog (1944-2019), New Testament Studies; James William McClendon, Jr. (1924–2000), Narrative Theology; Robert J. Goeser (1923-2005), Church History

Thesis: “Departure: A Performing Arts Manifesto” (1985)

BA, Communication: Theatre; BA, German Language, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, 1982

Mentors: Thomas Gressler, Theatre; Ted Desel, Theatre; Craig Singletary (1931-2016), Communication; Hildegard Kurz (1919-2004), German; Peter Richardson, German; Stephen H. Snyder, World Religions; William D. Apel (1947-2024), Chaplaincy

Auserordentlicher Hörer, Universität Wien (University of Vienna, Austria), 1980-81

Mentors: Margret Dietrich (1920-2004), Theatre History; Heinz Adamek, Humanities

MII Zeugnis, German Language, Goethe-Institut

Göttingen, Germany, July-August 1980; Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, August-September 1980