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  • Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.

    Pedagogy of Sámi Place,” a pedagogical research project in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish Sápmi, Summer 2016 Kelmer Roe Grant, Humanities Division, Pacific Lutheran University, for “Language Revitalization and Critical Indigenous Pedagogy,” joint project with Suzanne Crawford O’Brien and Kelly Hall, Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 NORTANA Travel Grant, The Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry, Summer 2011 NORTANA Housing Grant, The Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America, Summer and Fall

  • Community Director for Stuen & Ordal Halls | Residential Life | dgonzales@plu.edu | 253-535-7700 | Dream is originally from Southern CA but has lived and traveled all over the world.

    educator for campus policy violations Professional Memberships/Organizations NASPA (National Association of College Student Personnel Administrators) , (8/1/2017 - Present) NASPA Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community Regional Representative , (9/12/2019 - Present) Biography Dream is originally from Southern CA but has lived and traveled all over the world. She is passionate about being a community advocate working towards a more just and sustainable world. She shows care by making sure those

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  • Founding Director | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.  He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program.  He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His most recent book of poetry is There.

    job to support.  As a writer, I know writing is a way of being. There’s a time for community, and a time for solitude. When we’re together, sparks will fly, and there will be high spirits as well as intelligent conversation with people who care about writing. (Bring your passion to residency.) When you’re working at home, you will have new voices, new skills, and a new vision working for you. The process matters as much as a credential. The purpose? What you make it.”

  • Associate Vice President for Wellbeing Services and Resources / Dean of Students | Wellbeing Services and Resources | freyer@plu.edu | 253-535-7462 | Eva has enjoyed working at PLU for 25 years in the Division of Student Life.

    Education Ed.D., Educational Leadership, Seattle University, 2011 M.Ed., Multicultural Education, University of Washington, 1997 B.A.E., Secondary Education, Pacific Lutheran University, 1995 Responsibilities Lead the department of Wellbeing Services and Resources. Overseeing the Student Conduct process of the University. Serving as University Dispute Resolution Committee Member. Coordinate the medical withdrawal process. Co-lead Student Care Network. Supervision of Student Rights and Responsibilities

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Education | School of Education | rizzardi@plu.edu | 301-788-8270 | Jonathan M.

    and wellness, stewardship for student populations in juvenile detention centers and drug rehabilitation facilities, and creating alongside youth in the foster care system. Their scholarship unpacks how acts of education, maturation, and coming-of-age intersect with theatre and public performance in the early twentieth century United States, and unravels queer readings of teaching and learning as mechanisms of citizen-making in the theatrical past. Rizzardi hopes to use theatre scholarship to

  • Chair of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | simicmka@plu.edu | 253-535-7034 | Ksenija Simić-Muller received her undergraduate degree in Theoretical Mathematics at the University of Belgrade in Serbia (former Yugoslavia), and her masters and doctoral degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

    , K., & Simic-Muller, K. "Making art in math class during the pandemic. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics." Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Vol. 11, 2021: Simic-Muller, K. "There are different ways you can be good at math”: Quantitative literacy, mathematical modeling, and reading the world." PRIMUS Vol. 29, 2019: 259-280. Simic-Muller, K. "Motherhood and teaching: Radical care." Journal of Humanistic Mathematics Vol. 8, 2019: 188-198. Accolades 2023 Pacific Northwest Section of the MAA

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  • Assistant Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy | Marriage and Family Therapy | alexus.hamilton@plu.edu | 253-535-8167 | Dr.

    2023 from the University of Iowa. While there, she volunteered at the LGBTQ Counseling Clinic where she provided ongoing therapy and letters of support for gender affirming care. In addition to her clinical work, she is building a program of research around strengthening supports for Black clinicians by exploring factors related to their retention and attrition. She is dedicated to supporting therapists in training on their journey to becoming culturally responsive therapists.

  • Professor of English | Department of English | barotrp@plu.edu | 253-535-7318 | Rick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002), which received the Kathryn A.

    magic, I also believe in tough-minded examinations of the thematic and formal elements that we use as writers.  As a teacher, I prefer discussions in which everyone seems to have a lab coat on, detailing the mechanics of the work at hand.  How a piece achieves its force through writerly decisions—decisions which have been guided by thought and feeling, insight and intuition, analysis and imagination, failure and risk—this is what I care about. As a necessary complement to the writer’s solitary work

  • Professor of French | French & Francophone Studies | wilkinrm@plu.edu | Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies.

    strives to meet her students where they are at and to provide space for their interests and knowledge to shine. They consistently appreciate the creativity, humor, and care she brings to the classroom community and to their persons. Prof. Wilkin grew up in small-town Ohio, attended college on the East Coast, went back to the Midwest for grad school and her first job, and visited the Pacific Northwest for the first time during her campus interview at PLU in 2008. She has lived a total of five years in

  • Professor of Kinesiology | Department of Kinesiology | hackercm@plu.edu | 253-535-7363 | Dr.

    presentations and published more than 45 articles, chapters and a book.   Dr. Hacker has worked with corporations such as Morgan Stanley, NIKE, Martha Stewart Living, Meredith Corporation, S.C. Johnson Company, MTV Networks, Infinity Broadcasting, Thrivent Insurance Company, The New Yorker Magazine, Citadel Broadcasting, Conde Nast, Million Dollar Round Table, Bankers Association, GLAMOUR, Parent’s Magazine, House and Garden, Franciscan Health Care Systems, Better Homes and Gardens, Westwood One, General