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areas: biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental studies, geosciences, marriage and family therapy, mathematics, music, nursing, physics. Library instruction, reference, online resource management. Selected Presentations 2021 ALD/ACRL-WA and ACRL-OR Joint Fall Summit, Re-contextualizing the Antelope: What a Year in Nature Taught Me about Documentation (November 5, 2021) Interests hiking camping martial arts Hardanger fiddle science fiction

Lutheran University PLU Innovative Teaching Grant (2003) Richard Moe Award for Professional Development (2002) Biography Violinist Svend Rønning enjoys a varied career as an artistic director, chamber musician, concertmaster, educator, and soloist. He is Coordinator of String Studies at Pacific Lutheran University where he is Professor of Music and violinist in the Regency String Ensemble. His prior teaching appointments have included faculty positions at the Eastern Music Festival, the Shenandoah

, identity expression, social justice, and the utilization of phenomenological and participatory methodologies for applied inquiry. Along with university teaching and research, Hazel also has a professional background in early childhood education, elementary education, after-school education, queer and trans youth advocacy and queer and trans community organizing.

Ethiopia before completing his Ph.D. in Curriculum Leadership at the University of Denver. He has been teaching at PLU since 1998. He teaches sociology of education and multicultural education. His academic interests include international education, cultural globalization, and education reform. He writes curriculum activities for secondary social studies teachers, as well as reviews, essays, and commentaries about social studies education, international education, and education reform. In addition to

students at PLU, advocacy for an inclusive and welcoming university, and the many ways her teaching, scholarship and community engagement honor PLU’s mission and advance the ideals of humanistic inquiry”, 2017 Faculty Honoree at the Acknowledgement of 2017 Inspirational Women, PLU Center for Gender Equity, Pacific Lutheran University Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award, Pacific Lutheran University, for the project entitled “Museums of Memory and Memory on Screen”, 2016 Wang Center Faculty

Rob Thompson Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation Phone: 253-535-7495 Email: thompsrw@plu.edu Biography Biography Robert Thompson arrived at Pacific Lutheran University in August of 2013 as the Coordinator of Recreation and was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. Under Thompson’s leadership, student participation in intramural programming has increased by 40 percent through innovative marketing to students and partnerships with

Lilly Endowment, Incorporated. Across her four-decade career, Killen’s research has focused on Christianity in North America, especially Catholicism, on religion and spirituality in the western United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest, and on church-related higher education.  From 2006-2012 she served as editor of the Wiley-Blackwell journal, Teaching Theology and Religion.  Since 1999 she has been a workshop leader and consultant for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology

(2022) Professional Memberships/Organizations American String Teachers Association (ASTA) The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) Suzuki Association of the Americas (SAA) Washington Music Educators Association (WMEA) Biography Justin Lader received his PhD in music and human learning from The University of Texas at Austin, Master’s degree in viola performance with emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and

Immanuel Kant History and Meaning of Jazz Aesthetics American and African-American Culture and Literature German philosophy Critical Theory Theory/History of Public Sphere Alexander Kluge Biography Arthur Strum teaches interdisciplinary courses drawing particularly upon philosophy, literature, and political theory. He began his career in the field of German Studies, teaching and writing for more than a decade on 18th and 19th century German philosophy, the Bildungsroman, The Frankfurt School, Kant

2011 Teaching Grant, Center for Teaching and Learning, Pacific Lutheran University, for Ethnic Studies Working Group: Curricular Conversations Workshop, with Melannie Cunningham, Spring 2010 Faculty Student Research Grant, Scandinavian Cultural Center, Pacific Lutheran University for “Sustainability and Urban Planning in Malmö, Sweden ”with student Emma Kane, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 Kelmer Roe Grant, Humanities Division, Pacific Lutheran University, for “Selling Wind: Sámi as Witches and Witches