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  • The Department of Philosophy is pleased to present the Spring 2024 Capstones. May 16, 2024   -  Xavier Hall, Room 250  -  6:00-8:00 pm Click on each student name to see their presentation

    The Department of Philosophy is pleased to present the Spring 2024 Capstones. May 16, 2024   –  Xavier Hall, Room 250  –  6:00-8:00 pm Click on each student name to see their presentation title.  6:00-6:30 pm - Molly House6:30-7:00 pm - Quan Huynh7:00-7:30 pm - Logan VanDenburg6:00-6:30 pm - Molly HouseAn Inquiry into Public Philosophy at PLU: The ``Upper`` and ``Lower`` Campus Divide6:30-7:00 pm - Quan HuynhIndividualism's Influence: The Legal System's Failure to Uphold Justice for the Poor7

  • How do you handle being the “first” or the “only”? Nikki Plaid ’96 (full oral history interview here)

    Union, the Feminist Student Union, Harmony and Crossroads, and ASPLU, working her way up the ranks from senator to vice president to president. By the time she was a senior, she was the first openly lesbian-identified person to hold the role of ASPLU President, while continuing to moonlight as a successful student and tireless activist. Looking back on it all now, Nikki is surprised that she had any time to study. The Mast introduces campus to their ASPLU President, Nikki Plaid in 1995. She also

  • 16 semester hours of approved philosophy courses; for transfer students, at least 8 hours must be taken at PLU. One of the classes is required to be an upper division course (300 or 400 level).

    Philosophy Minor:16 semester hours of approved philosophy courses; for transfer students, at least 8 hours must be taken at PLU. One of the classes is required to be an upper division course (300 or 400 level). Students considering a minor should discuss their personal goals with departmental faculty.

  • When: Thursday, March 7, 2019 The Writer’s Story: 4 pm in Ness Second Floor Lobby, KHP Reading and Reception: 7 pm, Studio Theatre, KHP

    Borderlines (Feminist Press, 2019) was a finalist for the Louise Meriwether first book prize. She finished her novel, Along the Hills, and is working on a nonfiction collection, Broken Blood, and critical monograph, Haudenosaunee Good Mind: Combating Literary Erasure and Genocide of American Indian Presence with Literature Curriculum and Literary Criticism. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Pacific Lutheran University.

  • Philosophy Department | College of Liberal Studies | menzelpt@plu.edu | Taught philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University from 1971 to 2012, having been educated at Wooster, Yale, and Vanderbilt.  Teaching widely in philosophy and cross-disciplinary curricula, he has also published specialized scholarly work in health care ethics, including two books on moral questions in health care economics, numerous articles on health system structure and health care reform, and a recently co-edited volume (2012) on the tension between treatment and prevention in health policy.  Courses in the last decade of his teaching include Biomedical Ethics, Human Identity and Bioethics, Health and Social Justice, Business Ethics, Human Rights, and The Nature of Human Well-Being. He also served Pacific Lutheran University in various administrative positions, including Provost.  He retired to Professor Emeritus in summer 2012. .

    Paul Menzel Philosophy Department Email: menzelpt@plu.edu Biography Biography Taught philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University from 1971 to 2012, having been educated at Wooster, Yale, and Vanderbilt.  Teaching widely in philosophy and cross-disciplinary curricula, he has also published specialized scholarly work in health care ethics, including two books on moral questions in health care economics, numerous articles on health system structure and health care reform, and a recently co-edited

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  • Professor Emeritus and a Faculty Fellow | Department of Philosophy | menzelpt@plu.edu | Taught philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University from 1971 to 2012, having been educated at Wooster, Yale, and Vanderbilt.  Teaching widely in philosophy and cross-disciplinary curricula, he has also published specialized scholarly work in health care ethics, including two books on moral questions in health care economics, numerous articles on health system structure and health care reform, and a recently co-edited volume (2012) on the tension between treatment and prevention in health policy.  Courses in the last decade of his teaching include Biomedical Ethics, Human Identity and Bioethics, Health and Social Justice, Business Ethics, Human Rights, and The Nature of Human Well-Being. He also served Pacific Lutheran University in various administrative positions, including Provost.  He retired to Professor Emeritus in summer 2012. .

    Paul Menzel Professor Emeritus and a Faculty Fellow Email: menzelpt@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1971 B.D., Yale University, 1967 B.A., College of Wooster, 1964 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Biomedical Ethics Philosophy & Health Policy Books Prevention vs. Treatment: What's the Right Balance? Co-edited with Halley S. Faust (Oxford University Press 2011) : View Book Strong Medicine: The Ethical Rationing of Health Care (Oxford University Press 1990

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  • English Department | Department of English | 253-535-7321 | Sharon L.

    Sharon Jansen English Department Phone: 253-535-7321 Website: http://sharonljansen.com/ Professional Biography Education Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 1980 M.A., English, University of Washington Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Medieval literature Early-modern history, politics, and literature Women’s literature, in particular writing by medieval women, early-modern women, and feminist texts from the fifteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries (from Christine de Pizan through Caroline

  • In 2016, The Collective, a PLU student organization created by students of color and their allies, distributed a list of institutional priorities for curricular transformation, including the call for

    interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to the study of racism, racialization and racial formation, both locally and globally. It draws on the GSRS program’s curricular strengths in teaching the social construction of identity, centering black feminist ways of knowing, analyzing systems of privilege and oppression through an intersectional lens, and imagining more just societies.   Our curriculum is founded on the belief that systemic racism structures everyday life and that everyone, therefore, has a

  • Professor of New Testament Dean and President of the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas Co-editor of the Fortress Commentary on the Bible and Conversations with Scripture: The

    School of Theology at Chicago Author of The Rapture Exposed and Journey Through Revelation: Apocalyptic Hope for Today Gail RamshawProfessor Religion Emeritus LaSalle University in Philadelphia Author of Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary and Under the Tree of Life: The Religion of a Feminist Christian Richard JaechBishop Southwestern Washington Synod of the ELCA Author of Transforming Church Conflict: A Guide for Pastors and Leaders Samuel TorvendProfessor of Religion Pacific Lutheran

  • TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University will host a lecture by Seattle University School of Law Professor Dean Spade, a leading scholar and activist in trans rights. His talk, “Romantic Notions: Soldiers, Spouses and the Limits of LGBT Equality,” will be held at 6…

    event, which is free, is sponsored by PLU’s Women’s Center, the Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Diversity Center. The last 40 years of queer and trans politics has seen a drastic shift, Spade says: Much of 1960s and ’70s queer and trans activism had complex and explicit ties to anti-war and anti-police movements, as well as to feminist disruptions of traditional gender roles, including militarized masculinities. Today, a highly visible, corporate-funded gay and lesbian rights agenda