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  • Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Wendy Call (she/her) is the co-editor of the craft anthology Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Penguin, 2007) and the new annual Best Literary Translations (Deep Vellum, 2024).

    books of poems by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda, with whom she shared the 2022 John Frederick Nims Prize for Translation from the Poetry Foundation: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems (Pluralia/Eulalia, 2022) and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater (Deep Vellum, 2024). Her co-translation of How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems (Milkweed, 2024), by Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, was called “a significant work in more ways than one” by the New York Times. Wendy has received grants and

  • Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs | Office of the Provost | provost@plu.edu | 253-535-7126 | As Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Joanna Gregson, Ph.D.

    sociology from Western Washington University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2012. As a faculty member, Gregson has taught and conducted research in the areas of deviance, gender, and qualitative research methods. Over the span of her career, she has published on such topics as teenage mothers, incarcerated mothers, and divorced women. Since 2010 she has been conducting participant observation research with the authors

  • Associate Director of Print Production, Mail Services, and Customer Service Center | Marketing & Communications | biddindj@plu.edu | 253-535-7434 | Denise Biddinger joined the staff in February 2010 as the customer service representative.

    Denise Biddinger Associate Director of Print Production, Mail Services, and Customer Service Center Phone: 253-535-7434 Email: biddindj@plu.edu Office Location:Printing & Mail Services Office Hours: (On Campus) Monday - Thursday: 7:30 am - 12:00 pm (On Campus) Monday - Thursday: 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm (Off Campus) Fri: By Appointment Biography Biography Denise Biddinger joined the staff in February 2010 as the customer service representative. Her last position was general manager at A&K Mailing

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  • Associate Professor of Psychology | Department of Psychology | clcook@plu.edu | 253-535-7471 | My research explores how social motives and beliefs (e.g., religious, existential, or social beliefs) influence perceptions of threats and opportunities regarding others in our social environment.

    interests include morality/values, evolutionary psychology, and “alternative” belief systems (e.g., conspiracies, the occult, etc.). Selected Publications Cook, C. L., & Franks, A. S. (2022). Religious identity and intersectional privilege: (A)Symmetric biases in Christians and atheists are unaffected by prompts to consider religious and racial privilege. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. https://doi.org/10.1037/rel0000477 Klein, R. A., Cook, C. L., Ebersole, C. R., Vitiello, C., Nosek, B. A

  • Professor of Christian and Environmental Ethics | Religion | obrien@plu.edu | 253-535-7239 | Kevin J.

    with Wicked Problems, with Dr. Whitney A. Bauman (Routledge 2019) : View Book The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists (Georgetown University Press 2017) : View Book An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics co-authored with Kathryn D. Blanchard (Baylor University Press 2014) : View Book Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology co-edited with Dr. Whitney A. Bauman and Dr. Richard R. Bohannon (Pickwick

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  • Professor of Music - Voice; Coordinator of Vocal Studies | Music | brownja@plu.edu | 253-535-7614 | James Brown enjoys an eclectic career of singing, teaching, stage direction and conducting.

    . Brown’s students have gone on to study at University of Arizona, Indiana University, The Juilliard School, University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory and Yale University and have performed on stages from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to Opernhaus Zürich. As Director of Opera at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, Brown follows a three-year cycle of repertoire with his students that includes the early baroque, standard repertoire, and modern repertoire. The director received a production

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  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    ): memoria, mujeres y barbarie, co-organized by The University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon State University Portland, OR (March 9-11, 2019) XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Association of Gender and Sexuality Studies (AEGS), Memoria(s) y saber(es): una aproximación a tres proyectos museísticos conosureños, Panel Giving Voice to the Voiceless through Narratives of Trauma and Healing, University of Illinois at Chicago (September 27-29, 2018) 2nd International Symposium of the Southern

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | pyehc@plu.edu | 253-535-7634 | Hannah Pye hails from Georgia and loves the PNW.

    student success. Her research and professional interests include emergency medicine, pediatrics, disaster and emergency preparedness and response, breastfeeding medicine, and methods for investing in student success NCLEX Preparation Biography Hannah Pye hails from Georgia and loves the PNW. She has six years of experience as a staff nurse in the emergency department and has also worked as an administrative nurse. Her teaching experience includes education of both undergraduate and graduate students

  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | barberal@plu.edu | I am a proud PLU alum twice over! In 2017 I graduated with my Bachelors in Kinesiology and continued on into the ELMSN program shortly after.

    exercise science as it pertains to prevention education and recovery, specifically in cardiac patient population. Currently I work full time at the PULSE Heart Institute as an assistant nurse manager. I find value in remaining in close connection with floor staff while also peeking into the higher levels of health care systems. During my time at PULSE I have served primarily as a mentor for new RN grads as well as RN residents. I find it very rewarding to watch the growth in our young nurses. In my

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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.

    Indigenous studies Nordic literature and film Responsibilities Council Member, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). 2017 to present. Selected Presentations Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, These songs of freedom: Matti Aikio, Aagot Vinterbo-Hohr and the aesthetics of Sámi literary survivance, University of Hawai'i, Manoa (May 2016) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Unraveling the Master’s Voice: Matti Aikio’s Subversive Turn, New Orleans (May