Shearlean Duke, 1999.
Associate Professor. B.A., Tennessee Tech University; M.A., Chapman University. She has more than 25 years experience as a journalist and public relations specialist. She is a former reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Times. She was director of public relations for a Los Angeles advertising agency, and was a senior communications specialist for Allergan, a global health care company. She taught at East Carolina University and the University of California, Irvine.
Email: Shearlean.Duke@wwu.edu
Home Page: http://www.wwu.edu/~dukes

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. 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

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

Carol Brach, 1999. BA, Western Washington University. Journalism department manager. email: cbrach@hope.journ.wwu.edu

Marissa Doiron, 2007. BA, Western Washington University. Journalism department secretary. email: Marissa.Doiron@wwu.edu

Michele Anderson, 2007. Advertising Manager for The Western Front. email: Michele.Anderson@wwu.edu

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