The Authors of the OE
Allen Dobbins grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. He earned a B.A. in psychology and masters degrees in history and education from Stanford before obtaining his doctorate at Harvard. He has taught high school and university at all levels, and he was the curriculum administrator for Portland Public Schools. A great believer in the arts, Dobbins has served on several public service and philanthropic institutions in California and Oregon.
George Domijan is a Public Historian, with a background in mining and mining history. In more recent years, he has worked for Oregon and Washington port districts, providing research support for the Port of Portland's Lower Willamette Project, and compiling an annotated chronology for the Port of Klickitat(Washington). He has composed narratives for the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) in the Library of Congress, and has written a historic narrative of the Port of Portland marine terminals, for inclusion in Marine Terminal Master Plan 2020, a Port of Portland project.
Robert Donnelly teaches U.S. history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He earned a Ph.D. at Marquette University, an M.A. at Portland State University, and a B.S. at Western Oregon University. He grew up in Winston, Oregon.
Brian Doyle is the editor of the University of Portland's quarterly Portland Magazine — "the finest spiritual magazine in America," says Annie Dillard — and the author of nine books of essays, nonfiction, and poems.
Susan Badger Doyle moved from Wyoming to Pendleton in 1997. She is an independent scholar specializing in historic western overland trails, with particular interest in nineteenth-century emigrant trails, transportation and the settlement of Oregon.
Brother Cyril Drnjevic, OSB, has been a monk of Mt. Angel Abbey since 1985. For over a decade he has taught monastic history at the Abbey, and since 2004 he has been an administrative assistant to the abbot (leader) of the abbey. After five years of archival research, he published an article in the American Benedictine Review on the early decades of Mt. Angel Abbey. He received a bachelor's degree (with honors) from the University of Puget Sound and three master's degrees: in theology and divinity from Mt. Angel Seminary and in history from the University of Virginia.
Mason Drukman received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked as chief editor of the Consumers’ Institute of New Zealand, as editor and publisher of The Oregon Times, and as a professor of political science at Reed College and the University of California. His writing has appeared in California Magazine, The Nation, The New Zealand Listener, Oregon Magazine, and the Western Political Quarterly. He is the author of Community and Purpose in America (McGraw-Hill) and Wayne Morse, A Political Biography (OHS Press). He currently works as a freelance writer and poet in Berkeley.
Steve Duin is the Metro columnist for the Oregonian and the author or co-author of five books, including Comics: Between the Panels, a history of comics.
Mark A. Duntley Jr. is dean of the Chapel at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and holds a Ph.D. in religion and society from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Mark has taught courses on Christian Social Ethics and Biomedical Ethics at Lewis & Clark College and has published articles on ethics, physician-assisted suicide, and human cloning. Mark worked closely with Paul S. Wright at Lewis & Clark College from 1989 until Paul’s death in 1994.
George P. Edmonston Jr. holds degrees in history from Louisiana State University and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Relocating to the Pacific Northwest in 1986, George served as editor of Oregon State University's alumni magazine, Oregon Stater, for 20 years. Now retired, George enjoys his current role as the magazine's history and traditions editor. In 2003, he co-authored the book, Tales from Oregon State Sports. His feature stories on Oregon and OSU history have appeared in The Oregonian, the Salem Statesman-Journal, the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Corvallis Gazette-Times and The Newberg Graphic. From 2007-2009 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Benton County Historical Society.
