|  Jake
Bosmeijer manages all of the technology in the DeVos Communication
Center, including video and audio studios, editing suites, and associated
control rooms. Born in the Netherlands, he studied at the University of
Amsterdam where got his degree in electronics, computer science and business
management. He moved to Michigan in 1979 and worked 14 years at a large
corporation as manager of communications technology. He has been a consultant
on various ventures, from point-of-sale kiosks to the design and installation
of sound and video for worship, and has managed projects ranging from
Web sites and video programs to creative content asset management.
Heather
Leigh Brown (MFA Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)  is the Costume Designer for Calvin Theatre Company. A designer and technician, her credits include production work for University of Illinois, Syracuse Stage, The Old Globe Theatres of San Diego and American Players Theatre. Costume designs for CTC have included: As It Is In Heaven, Doll's House, Jane Eyre, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility, which she also co-adapted.
Randall Buursma (Ph.D. Michigan State University) has a unique position in CAS. He teaches one course for the department that is not found in any CAS major - CAS 214, Creating Communication Arts in the Classroom. The course explores how the communication arts, such as creative drama or reader's theater, enhances the educational process. Randy's interest in education stems from teaching nine years at an elementary school and his graduate work at Michigan State University. He also teaches courses in the Education Department. Randy has directed a number of children's plays at Calvin, including, Telling Wilde Tales, No One Will Marry a Princess With A Tree Growing Out of Her Head, and Good Boogie which was written by CAS colleague, Debra Freeberg. In February 2007, Randy became a full-blown member of the "Cold Knight Club. Click here to see the chilling photo. To see the photo gallery click here. Sabbatical Fall 2008-Spring 2009.
 Randall
Bytwerk (Ph.D. Northwestern) teaches public speaking, rhetoric,
and persuasion. A specialist in propaganda, he has published three books
and numerous articles on Nazi and East German propaganda. His German
Propaganda Archive, a collection of material from the Nazi and East
German eras, draws an average of 5,000 visitors a day. He also sponsors
the Moses
Award, a prize to encourage practical joking at Calvin. Professor
Bytwerk is an enthusiastic traveler and leads an annual backpacking
expedition in California's Sierra Nevada. [Home
page] [Publications]
 Mark
Fackler (Ph.D. Illinois, Champaign — Urbana) teaches
primarily communication ethics. He has lectured at universities from North
America toAfrica and Europe. He co-authored Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning
(Longman, Allyn/Bacon) and Good News: Social Ethics and the Press
(Oxford) as well as many scholarly and general-interest articles. Professor
Fackler has written radio drama, biblical commentaries, and encyclopedia
entries. His teaching and research interests focus on development communication
in East Africa. He also officiates baseball. [Publications]
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Robert Fortner (Ph.D. Illinois at Champaign—Urbana) teaches audio design
and aesthetics, broadcast journalism, screenwriting, international communication,
communication in society, and theories of communication .
He authored International Communication (Wadsworth) and Public
Diplomacy and International Politics (Praeger), served on the board
of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and the Far East Broadcasting
Company, and was a panelist for the National Academy of Sciences. He has
researched for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Voice of America,
and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Professor Fortner
has led workshops in over twenty countries and executive produced an international
radio feature program. He golfs and jogs. [Home
page] Leave of absence 2007-2009.
 Debra
Freeberg (Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh) teaches acting, directing, playwriting, and communication courses. She has lectured and conducted workshops on communication, leadership, and
theatre across the U.S. and Sweden. Professor Freeberg has directed more than 30
plays and musicals. Her favorite productions include The Ghost Sonata, My
Dearest Sister, She Stoops to Conquer, A Dream Play, 1940s Radio Hour, Joan
of Lorraine, Peer Gynt, and Tiger at the Gates, and a lauded staging
of Mendelssohn's Elijah for the Calvin's Oratorio Society. Her research
includes Scandinavian theatre, children's theatre, playwriting, and
directing. Her current projects include Embarrassment of Riches, a book
about the role of theatre in the Christian academy and Theatre and A Way of
Knowing, a co-authored volume on the practice and pedagogy in Christian
higher education with colleagues from Wheaton College and Valparaiso
University. Debra is a Board Member of Christians in Theatre Arts and a
former member of the Governing Board of the Association of Theatre in Higher
Education and a member of the Dramatists Guild. [Publications]
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on Faith & Scholarship]
 Brian Fuller (MFA University of North Carolina - Greensboro) is an Emmy Award-winning director and editor who teaches media production. Brian was transplanted to Calvin from the North Carolina mountains, where he was a professor of communication and the principal of a private media production firm. His 2004 film, FutureWorship 1.0 , examines the use of presentational technologies in churches. In 2006, he completed Hope of the Quechua, a documentary chronicling community development efforts in Ecuador. He speaks widely on the topic of multimedia design for worship. [ Home Page ] [ Creative Activities & Presentations ]
Daniel
Garcia (MFA Ohio University) teaches introductory and
advanced video production as well as screenwriting. Born in Trujillo,
Peru, he obtained his B.A. at the Pontific Catholic  University
of Peru. He spent several years teaching high school literature and language,
working as a creative writer in a local advertising company, and serving
as a theatre director and writer for several plays performed in local
churches and university campuses before pursuing graduate studies in communications
and film. Professor Garcia has written and directed numerous short films,
most recently a documentary about the lives of minority inmates in the
Peruvian prison Lurigancho. He is working on a video installation inspired
by the life and writings of Trappist monk Thomas Merton.
 Peggy
J. Goetz (Ph.D. Michigan) teaches speech pathology, including
phonetics, child language development, speech and hearing science, and
the anatomy and physiology of the speech and hearing system. Her articles
on children's justifications and theory of mind development have been
published in the Journal of Child Language and Bilingualism.
She previously spent two years teaching English as a second language in
China, where she developed a liking for steamed dumplings and beer. She
is a film buff with wide-ranging interests in travel and culture. [Publications]
Kathi
Groenendyk (Ph.D. Penn State) teaches visual and oral rhetoric, communication criticism, and environmental
studies. Her research includes environmental rhetoric as well as the relationship
between mass media and the environment. Professor Groenendyk has studied
how movies use landscape to help tell a story and how filmic images correspond
to social beliefs about nature. She is also the Associate Director for the
Academic Writing Program. She and her husband have two sons; together
they listen to a lot of jazz, watch baseball, and hike when they can.
[Publications]
 Jan
Hennink (BSN Michigan) manages the department's finances
and also serves as publicist for CAS' theatrical productions. Working
with West Michigan media, she ensures that Calvin's actors play to large
audiences. She grew up in New Mexico before attending college in Ann Arbor,
where she met and married a Grand Rapids native. Jan enjoys reading and
traveling, but especially delights in her grandchildren.
Camille Jones (AA Grand Rapids Community College) became the CAS department's Administrative Assistant in June 2008. She came to Calvin College 2 years ago to work in the area of housing in the Residence Life department.
 Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence (MCS Regent College) is the Costume Shop Manager for Calvin Theatre Company. Born just outside of Chicago, Joy grew up in Georgia and North Dakota and spent 4 years in British Columbia. She also works as a freelance writer, volunteers in local community theaters, and remodels a bungalow with her husband Justin. In her spare time she cooks and eats locally, knits rapidly, and sleeps heartily.
 David
J. Leugs (MFA Michigan) currently serves as Director of Theatre for the Calvin Theatre Company. He teaches design and technical production in the theatre program and serves as scenic and lighting designer for department productions. Outside of Calvin, his design credits include work with Actors' Theatre, Aquinas College Theatre, Community Circle Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre and The Michigan Shakespeare Festival. He has been honored with a Grand Award for scenic design and two Meritorious Achievement awards in design from the American College Theatre Festival. In his time away from Calvin, he enjoys independent films, foreign and domestic travel, fine food and wine, and nearly any live sporting event. With his wife Danelle, he continues to work on three simultaneous, on-going productions: Jessica, Patrick and Duncan.
 Beth L. Macauley (Ph.D. University of Florida - Gainesville) is an Associate Professor in the Communication Arts and Sciences department. She earned her Ph.D. (1998) in speech-language pathology specializing in brain-based communication disorders with a minor in neuropsychology. Her favorite areas for teaching, research, and clinical service are neurogenic communication disorders across the lifespan, such as aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, dysphagia, reading, and writing, as well as stuttering, and ethical issues. Dr. Macauley has special places in her heart for adult stroke survivors and children with multiple disabilities. She is the only doctoral level speech-language pathologist with clinical certification in speech-language pathology, animal-assisted therapy (AAT - dogs), and hippotherapy (HPOT-horses). Dr. Macauley is the leading researcher in applications of AAT & HPOT to persons with communication disorders: speech, language, voice, stuttering, developmental delay, autism, etc., and is the editor of the Scientific and Educational Journal of Therapeutic Riding. [Statement on Faith and Learning]
Michael
Page (Ph.D. London) teaches acting and communication and culture,
and 
is the Director of Theatre. He a member of Equity, the professional actors’
union. He has taught English at Western Michigan University, and was Visiting
Professor of Theatre at Hope College before coming to Calvin. He has directed
productions for, and taught at, several Michigan colleges and theatres,
and was for 13 years a regular company member of The BoarsHead Theatre
in Lansing. For the last nine years he has performed in the summer with
the Peterborough Players in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is also an award-winning reader
of books on tape. Dr. Page is on sabbatical in the spring 2008.
Garth
Pauley (Ph.D., Penn State) teaches rhetoric and public address,
as well as politics and the mass media. His research  on the
rhetoric of the American civil rights movement and twentieth-century American
political rhetoric has been published in the Quarterly Journal of
Speech, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Journal of
Black Studies, the Western Communication Journal, the Southern
Communication Journal, and by Texas A&M University Press. He
is a past recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the National Communication Association's Karl Wallace Memorial
Award. An avid jazz listener, he also teaches a January course in jazz
history and styles. [Publications]
 Carl
Plantinga (Ph.D. Wisconsin-Madison) teaches film theory, history, and criticism. He is the author of Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film (Cambridge), co-editor of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (Johns Hopkins), and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film (forthcoming), and author of numerous book chapters and essays in film studies. He has served on the board of editors of Cinema Journal and is on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Cognitive Study of the Moving Image. He enjoys hiking, biking, birding, gardening, and the Detroit Tigers. [Publications]
 Christian Poquette (BFA Central Michigan University) is the new Technical Director for the Calvin Theatre Company. Before landing at Calvin he served as the Technical Director at Mason Street Warehouse in Saugatuck. Since coming to Grand Rapids in 2003 he has designed and built scenery for the UICA, Actor's Theatre, Jewish Theatre, Heritage, Aquinas, Circle Theatre and Mason Street Warehouse, as well as various High Schools. His interests outside theatre include music, film, literature and the tranquility of a deep forest.
Robert Prince (MA Michigan State University) joins the faculty in the fall of 2008 as assistant professor teaching media production.
A 1999 graduate of the Calvin CAS department, he has 15 years experience
in video production, ranging from directing live studio productions to
filming in remote Alaskan villages. His 2005 documentary "Making
Choices: The Dutch Resistance during World War II" won the Audience
Award at the 2005 Newburyport Documentary Film Festival and was picked
up for public television distribution by the National Educational
Telecommunications Association. He is currently near completion of a
documentary about the resurgence of traditional Native dancing among the
Alutiiq Natives of Alaska.
Amy Richards will be joining the department as Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Fall of 2008. Check back for additional information as it becomes available.
 William
D. Romanowski (Ph.D. Bowling Green State) teaches film, communication,
and culture studies. He is the author of the award-winning Eyes Wide
Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture (Brazos) and Pop Culture
Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life (InterVarsity).
Professor Romanowski's three-part video series based on Eyes Wide
Open and produced by the Calvin
Media Foundation was an Aegis Award Winner and received a Communicator
Award of Distinction. In his free time, he enjoys tennis and golf. [Home
page] [Publications]
 Stephanie
Sandberg (Ph.D. California - Santa Barbara) teaches Theatre History and Communication and serves as a director for the Calvin Theatre Company. She trained as an actress at the California Institute for the Arts and completed a liberal arts degree at Westmont College. Since the Autumn of 2001, her focus has been the dramaturgy of new plays, bringing living playwrights to Calvin College and performing their works. The focus of these productions has been on developing new plays centered on questions of faith for Calvin's Festival of Faith & Writing . Currently she is working on Deborah Brevoort s The Women of Lockerbie for the 2008 festival. Last season she developed a new adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility for the Calvin College stage with costume designer Heather Brown. Stephanie also serves as a staff director at Grand Rapids' Actors' Theatre where she is now developing a new play Seven Passages: The Stories of Gay Christians, based on four years of research and interviews about the intersection of homosexuality and Christianity. She has received numerous Grand Awards and American College Theatre Festival Awards for her work, most recently for her work on András Visky's Disciples.[Statement
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Quentin
Schultze (Ph.D. Illinois at Champaign—Urbana)  teaches
mass media, senior seminar, and
public speaking. He is the Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair in Faith and
Communication, and Executive Director of the Gainey Institute for Faith and
Communication, which sponsors the Calvin Workshops in Communication. He
speaks widely and has authored hundreds of articles for general-interest and
religious periodicals. His many books include the award-winning Christianity
and the Mass Media in America (Michigan State University Press) and An
Essential Guide to Public Speaking: Serving Your Audience with Faith, Skill,
and Virtue (Baker) with an accompanying website. In 2000 he received the
Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching at Calvin. He loves hiking,
birding, and travel. [Home page] [Publications]
 Christopher
R. Smit (Ph.D. University of Iowa) teaches mass media, including
television, gender and sexuality, and popular music. His edited Screening
Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability ( University
Press of America) was the first book to be published on the topic of film
and disability. Professor Smit's essays on disability, media, popular
music, and culture have appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly,
Studies in Popular Culture, Journal of Popular Culture,
and several edited collections. His current book project concerns theology, disability, and the Christian faith. He is a singer/songwriter whose latest
CD is The New Midwest (2006). [Publications]
Patric Spence (Ph.D. Wayne State University) joined the CAS faculty
late summer 2006 to teach the new Business Communication course as well
as Advertising and Public Relations. Prior to arriving at Calvin, he
taught Research Methods and Organizational Communication. Patric also
serves as Coordinator of the Department's Internship Program.
Patric's research focuses on risk and crisis communication, examining
audience perceptions of risk and emergency messages produced by
emergency management, organizations, government and news agencies.
Specifically, looking at how these messages motivate various publics to
take action in light of perceived threats.
Other research examines how the needs of underserved populations
are handled in the context of public health events and crises. Examples
of this work can be found in various journals and book chapters. Some of
this research has recently been cited in the National Consensus Statement on Integrating Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities into Public Health Emergency Preparedness, released by the Office of
Minority Health, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Patric also works closely with the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention and FEMA on various projects.
His recent work has been published in Communication Research Reports, Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Black Studies, The Howard Journal of Communication, Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and Sociological Spectrum.
 Helen
Sterk (Ph.D. Iowa) is department chair and teaches and writes
on rhetoric, feminism, gender, and popular culture. In 2006-07, Professor Sterk toured America, Canada, Hungary, Korea, and Switzerland as the Calvin Worldview Lecturer.
She co-authored Who's
Having This Baby? Perspectives on Birthing (Michigan State University
Press) and co-edited several books, including Gender and
Applied Communication (Sage). She has published
in the Western Journal of Communication
and the Journal of Communication, and in edited books such as
Evaluating Women’s Health Messages: A Resourcebook (Sage,
1996). Professor Sterk has served as the President
for the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender,
President of the Religious Communication Association, Chapter President
for the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and as a
member of the state executive board for the AAUP (Michigan). She loves
walking, reading detective novels, and watching her teenage children grow
up. [Publications]
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on Faith & Scholarship]
Judith
Vander Woude (Ph.D. Wayne State) directs the Speech Pathology
and Audiology Program. She teaches courses on phonological and  language disorders and conducts research on literacy development and neuroimaging of adolescents’ language comprehension. She has co-authored several articles and book chapters on language and literacy development and a book on speech-language pathology treatment. Professor Vander Woude has presented internationally on the positive effects of parent-child communication. She also is the Associate Coordinator of American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Special Interest Division 1, Language Learning and Education. Furthermore, she is the Co-Chair of the 2008 Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD) Annual Conference and an associate editor of CAPCSD’s Learning Objects Exchange (LOEX). [Publications]
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