Honors program faculty

Education

• MA University of Notre Dame
• PhD University of Notre Dame

Teaching Areas

Biblical, medieval, and Renaissance literature, composition and Honors Western Thought

Research/Interests

"Remembering the Sabbath: Law, Labor, and Liberty in Milton and His Contemporaries"

English Renaissance literature, and interactions between religion and literature

Education

• BA Walla Walla University, 1993
• PhD University of Oregon, 2002

Teaching Areas

Literature, Composition and Honors Western Thought

Experience

• Joined the Walla Walla English Department in 2004
• Served as College Writing Coordinator from 2005-2009

Research/Interests

Modern poetry is the focus of her research, as it was at the University of Oregon—specifically the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Sandburg, and Sterling Brown.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, modern literature, poetry, composition

Hobbies

Basketball, cats, reading novels and reading poems

Education

• PhD Washington State University, 2011; U.S. History
• MA Washington State University, 2004; American Studies

Teaching Areas
History of the U.S., Modern East Asian History, Spain and Latin America, History of the Pacific Northwest and Western Thought

Research/Interests

Cultural exchanges between Japan and the U.S. from the 1920s-1950s, particularly focused on the lives on Nobuo Tatsuguchi and B.P. Hoffman

Twentieth Century American History; Japan, particularly from the Meiji-Era to the American Occupation; America during World War II and the Cold War; US foreign policy
Other Activities: Member-at-Large, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Board.

Hobbies
Family, travel, literature, camping and cooking

Other

Room

Administration Building 232

Education

• PhD Claremont Graduate University, 2004; History
• MBA Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, 2000

Teaching Areas
Medieval and early modern Europe, History of Christianity, Science and the Enlightenment, women and society in early modern Europe, History of England, Western Thought and summer study tours in England

Research/Interests

The Common People and Religious Toleration in Restoration England

Early Modern Europe, the History of Christianity, Desiderius Erasmus, post-reformation England

Hobbies
Family, travel, golf and water sports

Other

Titles

• Chair of the community council for the Walla Walla Children's Home Society
• Executive officer of the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society

Room

• Administration Building 227

Twitter

• @gddodds

Dr. Dodd's website >

(BA, Walla Walla College; MDiv, Andrews University; PhD, Andrews University)

Paul Dybdahl was born in Thailand and spent the first eight years of his life in Asia before moving to the Walla Walla Valley. He attended grade school and high school in College Place, and graduated from Walla Walla College in 1992. He then accepted a call to be a pastor in the Oregon Conference, where he served for nearly five years. His time as a pastor included a sojourn to Andrews University, where he earned his MDiv in 1995. Paul later returned to Andrews for his doctorate and received his PhD in Missiology in 2004. His academic interest centers on the issues related to the effective communication of the gospel, especially across cultural barriers. Paul has been teaching at Walla Walla University since 2001.

Paul and his wife, Kristyn (also a graduate of Walla Walla College), have three children: Noah, Alyssa, and Sarah.

(BA, Seminar Marienhoehe, Darmstadt, Germany; PhD, Andrews University)

Mathilde Frey comes to Walla Walla University with a European background. She grew up in communist Romania where she attended elementary and high school, and graduated with the Baccalaureate. In 1984, she immigrated to West Germany, studied Theology in Austria and Germany, and served as a pastor in the South German Conference for five years. In 2003, she moved to Berrien Springs, Michigan, and earned a PhD in Old Testament from Andrews University. Her dissertation is titled, The Sabbath in the Pentateuch: An Exegetical and Theological Study.

In 2008, Mathilde accepted a call to teach Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Hebrew Language at the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies, in the Philippines. She also served as the editor of the Journal of Asia Adventist Seminary (JAAS) and as chair of the Master of Arts in Theology Program until 2014, when she moved to Walla Walla together with her husband Marcus and their two children, Delia and Eva.

Mathilde's academic interest is focused on close reading of the Hebrew Bible. She has written articles and book chapters on the Sabbath, has authored the Deuteronomy commentary for the Andrews Study Bible, and is currently writing a commentary on the book of Judges for the Seventh-day Adventist International Bible Commentary. Her international experience combined with pastoral ministry and academic work enriches her teaching in the classroom and her other contributions to the Walla Walla University campus.

Education

• BA Walla Walla University
• MA Claremont Graduate University; literature and film
• PhD Claremont Graduate University; textual studies

Teaching Areas

Literature, film and writing

Research/Interests

He uses film (a) as an effective way to examine narrative structure, (b) as the focus of College Writing Research papers, and (c) as a dialogue base toward understanding whole-person care for medical students. His recent publications include two research volumes on gospel sources published by Peeters Press, Leuven, Belgium.

Other

• Directs the campus Film Studies minor

Education

• MFA University of Washington; creative writing

Teaching Areas

Humanities Program Director, Fulbright adviser and Oxford (CMRS) year abroad program adviser

Other

• Author of On the River through the Valley of Fire: The Collaborative Ceramics of the Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman (American Museum of Ceramic Art, 2008)
• Contributing editor to Poetry Northwest
• Delivered over 100 lectures on Washington’s poets and artists for Humanities Washington’s state speaker’s bureau
• Lectured for the Teachers as Scholars program
• Taught at the University of Washington
• Created a northwest literary history anthology in cooperation with the University of Washington history department

Education

• PhD University of Chicago, 2016; Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Teaching Areas
Ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, Western Thought, Middle Eastern History, African History, The West and the World, World Geography

Research/Interests

Iron Age Households at Khirbat al-Balua, Jordan (co-director of the Balua Regional Archaeological Project)

History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East; Households and Communities of the Iron Age Southern Levant (circa 1200 BC)

Hobbies
Travel, knitting and cooking

Other

Titles

Vice President of the Walla Walla Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

Publications Manager for the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology, La Sierra University

Room

Administration Building 233

Education

• MA Washington University in St. Louis
• PhD Washington University in St. Louis

Teaching Areas

English major seminars in Restoration and Enlightenment, Romantic British Literature, Victorian Literature, Honors Western Thought, composition, Literature and the Arts and Environmental Literature

Research/Interests

She has a particular interest in the intersection between literature and the arts as reflected in her dissertation, "Jubal's Journey: The Musician as Exile in Victorian Literature."

Nineteenth- century British literature

Hobbies

Playing viola and piano, hiking, mountaineering

Other

• Joined the faculty at WWU in 2017
• Served as Chair and Professor of English at Pacific Union College and Columbia Union College