Faculty & Staff

Faculty	Carolyn Dale, 1977. Associate Professor. B.A., M.C., University of Washington. Dale has been teaching at Western for more than 25 years. During that time, she has chaired the department, led university re-accreditation efforts and taught abroad. Her journalism experience includes being a reporter and editor with The Bellingham Herald and The Tacoma News Tribune. She is co-author, with Tim Pilgrim, of “Fearless Editing: Crafting Words and Images for Print, Web and Public Relations,” Allyn & Bacon, 2005. A vita and information on current courses are available on her Web page. Email: Carolyn.Dale@wwu.edu Home page: http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/cdale/
	John M. Harris, 2000. Associate Professor. B.A., American Studies, Wittenberg (Ohio) University; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Washington. Worked for more than 20 years as a reporter, editor and photographer for The Bellingham Herald, Skagit Valley Herald, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The Spokesman Review in Spokane. Also researched three books with the late Jack Olsen, "Son: A Psychopath and his Victims," "Give a Boy a Gun" and "Cold Kill." Email: John.Harris@wwu.edu
	Brad Howard, 2005. Associate Professor. B.A., Christopher Newport College; M.A., University of Delaware; Ph.D., University of Delaware. He was a correspondent, newscaster and communications assistant for the Quad-City Times, KCLN/KLNT Radio and University of Delaware; project director for GIS Across the Curriculum, Shenandoah University. Email: Bradley.Howard@wwu.edu
	Stephen S. Howie, 2005. Lecturer. B.S., Beloit ( Wisc.) College; M.F.A., Creative Nonfiction writing, University of Pittsburgh. He worked 15 years as a professional journalist and teacher. He worked for the Boston Globe, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Preservation magazine. His first book was, "The Bluffton Charge: One Preacher's Struggle for Civil Rights." Before coming to Western, Steve worked for three years as an education reporter, assistant city editor and features editor at the Skagit Valley Herald. Email: Stephen.Howie@wwu.edu
	Jennifer Keller, 2007. Assistant Professor. B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., Syracuse University; M.A., Salisbury University. She worked for more than 15 years in public relations for a variety of nonprofits, corporations and PR firms in Washington, D.C., Chicago and Seattle. She also worked as a media buyer for the 1992 Clinton campaign. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, she taught public relations at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, N.Y. Email: Jennifer.Keller@wwu.edu
	Jack Keith, 2006 Lecturer. B.A. (double major in economics and journalism), Ohio Wesleyan University. He worked more than 30 years as a daily newspaper editor, including serving as managing editor of The Bellingham Herald from 1980-1996, where he wrote a weekly column. He was elected to the national Associated Press Managing Editors board of directors during that period. More recently, Keith held a variety of editing roles for The News Tribune in Tacoma for 10 years, including serving as the business editor from 2002-2006. Email: jack.keith@wwu.edu
	Carolyn Nielsen, 2005. Assistant Professor. B.S., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo; M.S., Northwestern University. She worked as a newspaper reporter for The Bellingham Herald, The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise, The San Francisco Examiner (correspondent) and other daily newspapers in California and Nevada; Editorial page editor of The Bellingham Herald until 2004. Email: Carolyn.Nielsen@wwu.edu
	Tim Pilgrim, 1992. Associate Professor. B.S., Western Montana College; M.A., University of Montana; M.A., Ph.D, University of Washington. He has been a copy editor and reporter for several weekly papers, and a correspondent and free-lance writer for newspapers and magazines in the Northwest. He taught at North Idaho College, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Email: tpilgrim@hope.journ.wwu.edu Home page: http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/
	Peggy Watt, 2004. Assistant Professor. B.A., Journalism and Political Science, Western Washington University; M.L.A., Stanford University, with research in online journalism. Newspaper reporter in Washington and California, and covered the high-tech industry for PC World for 20 years while based in Silicon Valley. Email: Peggy.Watt@wwu.edu
	Sheila Webb, 2008. Assistant Professor. B.A., English, University of Michigan; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin. Her research area is the cultural role of the media, particularly the role and rhetoric of news narratives in magazines. She served as Project Manager of ONline@UW, and has worked in museums as an educator, curator, and public information coordinator. She previously taught at the University of South Dakota, the University of Wisconsin, and Marquette University. Email: Sheila.Webb@wwu.edu

Staff

Carol Brach, 1999. BA, Western Washington University (1999). Journalism department manager.
email: carol.brach@wwu.edu

Alexis Tahiri, 2010. BA, Western Washington University (2009). Office Assistant.
email: alexis.tahiri@wwu.edu

Michele Anderson, 2007. BS (1995), MBA (2010), Western Washington University. Advertising Manager for The Western Front.
email: michele.anderson@wwu.edu

Alethea Macomber, 2002. Business Manager for Student Publications.
email: alethea.macomber@wwu.edu