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at PLU from 1963 until his retirement in 2005. He taught History of Civilization and early modern European history courses to nearly 5000 students. He also served as department chair, faculty representative to the Board of Regents, faculty athletic representative, faculty chair and acting provost. He also won a number of student-organized teaching and service awards. In 1983 the PLU Alumni Association gave him its Heritage Award, and in 1993 its Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has written and

obscured nation-building agendas, and why opposition to asylum seekers from Central America today may not be so anomalous to our immigration history.Dr. Mae NgaiSpeaker: Mae Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, whose research and teaching focuses on the histories of migration, citizenship, race and ethnicity. She is author of the award-winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), and The Lucky

Recording of Glory M. Liu’s 2023 Benson Lecture Released By Michael Halvorson ’85 On Thursday October 19, 2023, the PLU community welcomed Glory M. Liu of Johns Hopkins University to present the 17th Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History . The lecture took place in the Regency Room of the Anderson University… November 21, 2023 Benson LectureBusiness and Economic History

2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, working on documents of the

Fellowship Winners for 2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fellowship Winners for 2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, working on documents of the

Winners for 2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, working on

Fellowship Winners for 2013Julia Walsh, ’14, History Major Julia Walsh is a budding young scholar of the Holocaust and a multiple winner of Holocaust Study awards at PLU. She won second place in the Raphael Lemkin Student Essay Contest in 2012 and first place in 2013. She also was one of two Kurt Mayer Summer Student Fellows in 2012, before being selected again for the summer of 2013. Julia received a prestigious appointment to spend one week in July at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum