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Rachelle Berthelsen Davis, D.M.A.
Faculty Since 2005
Professor of Music
Rachelle Berthelsen-Davis, D.M.A., specializes in violin performance and violin pedagogy. She has taught at Columbia Union College; been the assistant director and concertmaster of the New England Symphonic Ensemble and assistant director of the New England Youth Ensemble; directed a middle school orchestra program; toured Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, China, Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean as a soloist and orchestral and chamber musician; and continues to participate in local chamber music and solo recitals. She is currently fascinated with alternative musical styles (non-classical music) and how to translate them to violin. She enjoys jamming with any group of instruments, reading, having interesting, meaningful conversations, and raising two young boys.
Degrees
B.S., Pacific Union College
1994
M.M., Indiana University, Bloomington
1998
D.M.A., University of Texas, Austin
2004
Katrina Blue, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 2017
Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Spirituality
Katrina Blue specializes in teaching theology and Christian spirituality. Her Ph.D. dissertation is on “Union with Christ in the Writings of Ellen G. White.” She has presented papers at the Ellen G. White Symposium on the Holy Flesh Movement, and has published articles in the Ellen White Symposium Journal, a series on Paul in Galatians for the Compass Magazine, as well as Spectrum magazine. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Adventist Society for Religious Studies, and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. She has worked as a teaching assistant at Fuller Theological Seminary, a hospital chaplain, associate pastor (intern), and as an adjunct professor at Andrews University in the undergrad Religion Department as well as in the Theological Seminary. She is married to David, an anesthesiologist.
Degrees
B.A. Hons, Monash University
1995
M.A.I.C.S., Fuller Theological Seminary
2002
M.A.T., Fuller Theological Seminar
2008
Ph.D., Andrews University
2015
Jon Carstens, M.A.
Faculty Since 2014
Associate Professor of Art History
As a professor of art history, Jon Carstens brings a breadth of knowledge of the humanities and a passion for art history, with a concentration in American art of the nineteenth century and the work of Winslow Homer in particular. He believes that “looking is not as easy as it looks," and in his courses he employs the visual image as a document to reveal how art and architecture reveal the cultural and historical milieu in which it was created.
Carstens rejoins the college faculty after previously teaching at PUC for 25 years. He lives in Angwin with his wife Claudia. In his free time, he enjoys auto racing, interior and landscape design, and travel.
Degrees
B.A. University of Redlands
1976
M.A. University of California, Riverside
1979
Email: kadavis@puc.edu
Office: Chan Shun Hall 343
FAA Accomplishments:
"Interactions of Ultrathin Pb Films with Ru(0001) and Pd(111)", G. Liu, K. A. Davis, D. C. Meier, P. S. Bagus, D. W. Goodman, and G. W. Zajac, Phys. Rev. B 68 (2003) 35406.
"Ultraviolet spectroscopy of cyclohexane-benzene clusters" D. C. Easter and K. A. Davis, Chem. Phys. Lett, 380 (2003) 471.
"The Growth of Silver on an ordered alumina surface", K. Luo, X. Lai, C.-W. Yi, K. A. Davis, K. K. Gath, and D. W. Goodman, J. Phys. Chem. B, 109 (2005) 4064.
"Comment on 'Predicting boron diffusion in wood from surface sorption'" K. A. Davis and J. R. Van Hise, Forest Products Journal, 56 (2006) 38.
Kent Davis, Ph.D. - Chair
Faculty Since 2002
Professor of Chemistry
Kent A. Davis , Ph.D., associate professor, specializes in physical chemistry and surface science. He has taught at PUC since 2003 and has also been a visiting professor at Texas State University-San Marcos and an adjunct professor at Trinity College. He enjoys reading, jazz, listening to classical music, and much more.
Degrees
B.S., Andrews University
1992
Ph.D., Indiana University
1998
Postdoctoral Research - Texas A&M University
1998-2000
Emily Logan, M.F.A
Faculty Since 2023
Assistant Professor of English
Emily Logan specializes in creative writing with an emphasis on prose. She is particularly interested in short story, flash fiction, and personal essay forms. Her stories and essays appear in The Roadrunner Review, Reflex Fiction, Watershed Review, and elsewhere, and her work has received support from AWP's Writer to Writer Mentorship Program and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She teaches courses in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Degrees
B.A. Walla Walla University
2017
M.A. California State University Chico
2019
M.F.A. University of Washington
2021
Milbert Mariano, M.F.A.,
Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, & Professions
After graduating from PUC with a B.S. in advertising design and one in studio art, Milbert Mariano acquired his M.F.A. from Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In summer 2019, he shifted into his new role as vice president for academic administration and academic dean. With four years as a student, nearly 25 years of teaching graphic design, and 12 of those as department chair, Mariano’s intimate knowledge of and love for the college goes back nearly three decades.
Taking a deep interest in every area of campus, Mariano has served on several student committees as advisor and sponsor, co-directed the annual Publications Workshop for high school students, and has been part of PUC’s Cultural Engagement Taskforce and Academic Standards & General Education, among others. Mariano’s overarching goal as an educator and an administrator is to provide spaces that spark creative learning, and to innovate curriculum that encourages collaboration between departments.
Email: tmcguire@puc.edu
Office: Irwin Hall 327
FAA Accomplishments:
McGuire, Tammy. From Emotions to Spirituality: "Spiritual Labor" as the Commodification, Codification, and Regulation of Organizational Members' Spirituality (paper presented at the 2007 National Communication Association Convention)
McGuire, Tammy. Spirituality and the Politics of Meaningful Work (paper presented at the 2007 National Communication Association Convention)
McGuire, Tammy. Sexual harassment of nurses by patients: Competing tensions of identity and control (paper presented at the 2007 National Communication Association Convention)
McGuire, Tammy. Communicating World Views: Feminists of Faith (presentation at the 2007 National Communication Association Convention)
McGuire, Tammy. "Being a Feminist of Faith" panel presentation at the 2007 National Communication Association convention (Chicago).
Tammy McGuire, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 2005
Professor of Communication
Tammy McGuire, Ph.D., professor, specializes in organizational communication. She taught English for many years at Sunnydale Academy (Missouri) and Upper Columbia Academy (Washington) and has written and presented extensively on communication topics, with several presentations at the National Communication Association Conventions. However, she is particularly proud of her communication research students winning numerous top paper awards themselves at these conventions. She loves mountain climbing, rock climbing, backpacking, mountain biking, bikepacking, and tennis.
Degrees
B.A. in Language Arts Education, Union College
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M.A. in English, Eastern Washington University
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Ph.D. in Communication, University of Missouri - Columbia
2006
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Email: srasi@puc.edu
Office: Irwin Hall 212
FAA Accomplishments:
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti: 2008. Riviera Maya, Mexico. IV Symposium on the Bible and Adventist Scholarship, the Foundation for Adventist Education; Christ in the Classroom series, General Conference Education Department. "Linguistics Speaks to Biblical Interpretation, Creation, and Babel."
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti: 2004. Florence, Italy. 2nd International Adventist Colleges Abroad Convention. "Integration of Faith and Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom."
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti: 2003, Friedensau, Germany. 31st Integration of Faith and Learning Seminar. "Christian Values for Future Foreign Language Teachers in the Applied Linguistics Course."
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti, Ph.D. - Chair
Faculty Since 1993
Professor of World Languages
Sylvia Rasi Gregorutti specializes in applied and sociolinguistics. She has worked as a Foreign Language Testing Specialist at the Center for Applied Linguistics and has taught ESL teacher training, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the college level as well as linguistics, literature, film, business and medical Spanish. She was recipient of a Title VII Fellowship in Bilingual Education from the U.S. Department of Education. Her hobbies and interests include linguistics, anthropology, archeology, international travel, and gardening.
Degrees
B.A., Andrews University
1989
M.S., Georgetown University
1991
Ph.D., Georgetown University
2002
Office: Stauffer Hall 101
Catherine Tetz, Ph.D. - Chair
Faculty Since 2019
Associate Professor of English
Catherine Tetz specializes in transatlantic literature with an emphasis on women and gender studies. Her work focuses primarily on women writers in the early twentieth century, and she is particularly interested in how künstlerroman and roman á clef genres were reappropriated by women writers at the height of literary modernism. She has presented work at the Modernist Studies Association’s annual conference, as well as the International Virginia Woolf conference. She teaches classes in poetry, fiction, and both American and English modernism.
Degrees
Washington State University
2014
Miami University
2020
Email: rwinkle@puc.edu
Office: Graf Hall 14
FAA Accomplishments:
“Voice of God.” In The Encyclopedia of Ellen G. White, ed. Jerry Moon and Denis Fortin, 1253-57. Washington, DC: Review and Herald, 2013.
“Resistance Is Not Futile: Restraint as Cultic Action in 2 Thessalonians 2.” Presentation to the Sacrifice, Cult, and Atonement Section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, Baltimore, MD, November 23, 2013.
“The calkoli,banw| Conundrum in Revelation.” Presentation to the Apocalyptic Literature Section, International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 9, 2013.
“The Atonement and the Restrainer.” Presentation to the Adventist Theological Society, Spring Symposium on the Atonement, Campus Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church, Loma Linda, CA, April 20, 2013.
“Apocalyptic Optics: The Ancient Extramission Theory of Vision and John’s Apocalypse.” Presentation to the Sensory Perception in the Bible and Early Judaism and Christianity Consultation, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 2011.
“Armed with the Censer Containing Weaponized Incense: Censer and Incense as Articles of Dress for the High Priest.” Presentation to the Levites and Priests in History and Tradition Consultation, Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, San Francisco, CA, November 19, 2011.
"Creation and Tabernacle, Sabbath and Glory." Presentation to the Sabbath in Text, Tradition, and Theology Consultation, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, November 24, 2008, with a formal response by Dr. Baruch Schwartz of the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at Hebrew University, Israel.
"'You Are What You Wear': The Dress and Identity of Jesus as High Priest in John's Apocalypse." Presentation to the Sacrifice, Cult, and Atonement Consultation, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, November 18, 2007.
"Iridescence in Ezekiel," Andrews University Seminary Studies 44 (Spring 2006): 51-77.
"'You Are What You Wear': The Dress and Identity of Jesus in John's Apocalypse." Presentation to the Second International Bible Conference, Izmir, Turkey, July 11, 2006.
"The Rainbow and the Mighty Angel in the Apocalypse of John: Meteorological Spectacle, or Iridescent Clothing Imagery?" Presentation to the Apocalyptic Literature Section, Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, July 5, 2006.
"Discord in Heaven: Could This Be the End of the 'Emerald Rainbow'?" Presentation to the Chicago Society for Biblical Research, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, April 16, 2005.
"Adventism, Gnosticism, and The Matrix." Presentation to the Faculty at Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, February 18, 2005.
"Disappearing Act: Hiram Edson's Cornfield Experience," Spectrum 33 (Winter 2005): 46-51.
Review of Crispin H. T. Fletcher-Louis, All the Glory of Adam: Liturgical Anthropology in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah, ed. F. García Martínez, vol. 42 [Leiden: Brill, 2002], Andrews University Seminary Studies 42 (2004): 231-36.
"Embracing Wonderland: Chasing Gnosticism Down the 'Rabbit-Hole' of The Matrix." Presentation to the Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism Section, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 22, 2004.
"Disappearing Act: The Mighty Acts of God Within Adventism and the Problematic Case of Hiram Edson's Cornfield Experience." Presentation to the Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 19, 2004.
Ross Winkle, Ph.D.
Faculty Since 2005
Professor of New Testament
Professor Ross E. Winkle teaches biblical studies. He has a professional focus in the New Testament and wrote his doctoral dissertation was on clothing imagery in the book of Revelation. He is a member of the Andrews Society for Religious Studies, Society of Biblical Literature, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. He has received several PUC Faculty Development Research and Honors awards as well as two Herber Faculty Development Awards. He has been a student missionary in Tokyo, Japan, a chaplain in Portland, Ore., and a pastor for thirteen years in three successive church districts in Oregon. He is an ordained minister and occasionally leads adult Sabbath School discussions on campus and preaches in surrounding churches. He is married to Darla, a health professional, and they have three children: Tristan, Elise, and Alexis.
Degrees
B.A., Walla Walla College
1983
M.Div., Andrews University Theological Seminary
1987
Ph.D., Andrews University
2012
Aimee Wyrick-Brownworth, M.Sc.
Faculty Since 2004
Dean of School of Sciences, Associate Professor of Biology
Aimee Wyrick, associate professor, specializes in ecology, herpetology and paleontology. She advises in biology, pre-dentistry and pre-dental hygiene. Her research interests include physical and biological influences on the Columbia spotted frog and plant taphonomy. Aimee has also worked as a research coordinator, instructor, and course coordinator for the University of Montana. Her other interests include gourmet cooking (with produce from her own garden), national parks, camping and hiking, road trips, and world music – all enjoyed with her husband, Greg.