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When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…
work, and then returned annually throughout undergraduate and graduate school for college-related studies and more volunteering. He even met his future wife there, in 2004. Today, Levy is a specialist in contemporary Honduras and an assistant professor in Pacific Lutheran University’s anthropology department. His research has focused on Honduran governance after the 2009 military coup and the outmigration patterns that followed. Recently, Levy provided pro bono expert witness testimony on behalf
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been interested in Jane Austen, particularly the construction of Austen as a character after her death and how we understand her in contemporary readings.Contributors Kathryn Einan is an English Literature and History double major from Pacific Lutheran University. She has interests in Austen’s novels as well as other classic literature and intends to focus her studies on them. She has enjoyed Austen’s books as well has film adaptations of those books ever since she was young. She has an interest in
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While many of their classmates braved a chilly winter back in Parkland, three Lutes sat on a beach in Hawaii watching whales. No, it wasn’t vacation. It was research.
and sharing results with the broader scientific community,” Smith said. “The extensive reading and thinking about primary literature that accompanies research allows students to further explore and identify the questions and topics that excite them.” The experience also is good for students who don’t become professional researchers, she said. “For students who do not go on to become research scientists, this serves them as lifelong learners,” Smith said. “For others who do pursue research careers
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Traditions (at least 4 semester hours) ENGL 360: Studies in British Literature IT ENGL 370: Studies in American Literature IT ENGL 380: Studies in Global Anglophone Literature IT,GE Themes in Literature (at least 4 semester hours) ENGL 334: Studies in Lit for Young Readers IT ENGL 394: Studies in Literature and the Environment IT,GE ENGL 395: Studies in Literature, Gender, and Sexuality IT,GE ENGL 396: Studies in Literature, Race, and Ethnicity IT,GE ENGL 397: Literatures of Genocide and the Holocaust IT
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put
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Sophia Mahr ’18 analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects.
marginalized populations, and the subsequent findings of those studies that are, in some cases, used and cited in contemporary research. Mahr analyzed how and why medical providers repeatedly and deliberately harmed people in the name of medical science by conducting non-consensual experiments on their subjects. Those ambitious professionals, she says, argued that the ends justified the means — that the harms were necessary to foster a greater good. Within her research, Mahr examined three case studies of
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When Hilde Bjørhovde returned to Norway, fresh out of PLU’s journalism program, her home nation had one television station.
surpassed 100,000 and are on the rise. “And, of course, they get the newspaper on their e-pads.” So, Bjørhovde’s career nearly bookends the contemporary evolution of newspapers, starting with her training at PLU. “We didn’t even have typewriters in the classroom,” she said, laughing. “We were writing by hand. It was very last-century stuff.” NowThe cover of one of Aftenposten's newspapers. ThenA newspaper clipping from the Nov. 4, 1977, edition of The Mooring Mast, which includes an article written by
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More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.
’ homeland through study away programs. Students travel more than 4,500 miles to extend their interdisciplinary knowledge in big cities and small villages alike, gaining a global perspective that’s equal parts foreign and familiar. While the sites might be new, Lutes are exposed to common values that tie PLU to Norway ― both the historical and the contemporary. A ResoLute writer and photographer traveled to Norway in the fall to get a glimpse of our roots ― våre røtter ― through the eyes of students
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Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for
University of British Columbia in Vancouver “The Environmental History of Not-Seeing: Indigenous Landscapes and the Re-Imagining of Cascadia”
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 4, 2016)- Kamari Sharpley-Ragin reluctantly admits that he used to joke about racism. The ninth-grader from Lincoln High School in Tacoma says it didn’t seem like a big deal, since he never really experienced overt discrimination himself. Now, he says he knows…
, said she took Kraig’s course because it offered a contemporary look at longstanding racial issues. “We fool ourselves thinking that racism is no longer in existence,” said Morales, who learned different ways to be an activist in the course. Stringer, a senior, said she realized that she was ignorant to racial issues as a privileged white woman before enrolling in the J-Term course. “I wanted to learn some facts to talk about it with my family,” she said. Students’ final performances ranged from
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