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Daisy L. Machado serves as Professor of Church History. Her scholarship focuses specifically on United States Christianities. She is the first U.S. Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1981 in the Northeast Region and has served inner city congregations in Brooklyn, Houston, and Fort Worth.

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Caleb Rosado is Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences at Odessa College, in Odessa, TX. He holds a doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University, a Master’s in New Testament Studies from Andrews University, and a Bachelors in Theology from Pacific Union College. He has taught in diverse academic settings in the United States, the UK, and in Latin America. These venues include: community colleges; small to midsize private colleges and universities; and large state universities. He has served as department chair in two schools, and as director of a branch campus in Chicago. His areas of expertise in sociology are: Race Relations, Theory, Urban, Religion, Latina/o Studies, and Wisdom/Ethics. Dr. Rosado has also been a human systems consultant since 1978. He has worked on issues of human relations and human systems change with government agencies; universities; K-12 school districts; corporations; churches; and community organizations. He has studied religion and social change in revolutionary Cuba, refugee life in internment camps in Thailand, street life in England, and cultural life in Spain. He has written three books and numerous professional articles. His latest publication, in his current area of research focus (quantum physics and urban transformation), is titled “Context Determines Content: Quantum Physics as a Framework for “Wholeness” in Urban Transformation.” Published in the September 2008 issue of the Urban Studies Journal. Prior to coming to Odessa College, Caleb taught full-time at Warner Pacific College heading up the Urban Studies Program, and part-time at Chemeketa Community College in Woodburn, OR, teaching Sociology and Chicano Studies.