Lorraine Brugh is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Chapel Music at Valparaiso University. She is University organist and the Frederick J. Kruse Endowed Chair in Church Music. Dr. Brugh is the director of the Kantorei, a select choir with major leadership in campus worship. She teaches organ, church music, and music theory. In 2004 she was appointed Director of the Institute of Liturgical Studies at Valparaiso University. She served on the ELCA’s Renewing Worship project. Dr. Brugh received her Ph.D in Religious Studies in the Joint Program at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Northwestern University in Evanston. She has recently authored a book for Augsburg Fortress Publishers, The Sunday Assembly: Worshiping Together, released January 2008.
Dr. Brugh is a member of Partners 4 Peace, a Valparaiso University campus initiative of faculty, staff and students committed to witnessing for peace and an end to the war in Iraq.