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By:Genny Boots '18 January 9, 2018 0 Thomas Kim ’15 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/winter-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2017/01/thomas-kim-cover-1024x427.jpg 1024 427 Genny Boots '18 Genny Boots '18 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/19bfb9cee2f834144d56bb2017bb5742?s=96&d=wp_user_avatar&r=g January 9, 2018 February 6, 2018 Thomas Kim ’15 “What makes an American an American?” This is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined

course. The first was to introduce or deepen students’ knowledge of the creation stories of the Americas, and to allow them to grasp the connections between these myths and contemporary literature produced in Mexico and in Latin America. At a deeper level, I also hoped to show the students how they might utilize literature in order to reflect upon their own experiences in Oaxaca. While the first part of the course centered on ancient Mesoamerican texts, and the cultural traditions they communicated

Jake Taylor Jake learning some Tzotzil from children in Chiapas, Mexico PLU Class of 2009/2010 Spanish and Global Studies Double Major Studied away in Oaxaca, Mexico; Wang Grant in Ecuador Completed Peace Corps in Panama Now working on Masters in Latin American Studies in the Netherlands I’m currently enrolled in a MA Latin American studies program with public policy emphasis at Leiden University here in the Netherlands. It’s the only program in Europe outside of Spain offered entirely in

& Government and Hispanic Studies:My tutorial was called “Latin American Development: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Challenges” and counted as POLS 491. During the term, I worked with a PhD candidate at the Department of International Development. We examined key challenges in development in Latin America. It integrated theoretical approaches to development that have been particularly influential in the Latin American context with an examination of empirical development and social justice issues

semester hours, selected from the following: Latino Studies courses are taught in English. No more than one course taught in English may count towards the minor. HISP 321: Iberian Cultural Studies (4) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) HISP 325: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies (4) LTST 341: Latino/a/x Experiences in the U.S. (4) LTST 342: U.S. Latino/a/x Literary and Cultural Studies (4) HISP 401: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (4) HISP 403: Advanced Spanish (Study Away) (4

marginalized groups on campus, my experience as a black individual is not celebrated or appreciated by the university on an institutional level. This is evident by the lack of black faculty members, programs and courses on African-American studies and the overall student demographic makeup. Why was/is the group needed? Bruce Driver ’78: BANTU was a chance for the black students to get together and to get to know each other. There weren’t that many black students on campus, more if you counted those who

Cultural Studies 12-28 semester hours, selected from the following: Latino Studies courses are taught in English. No more than one course taught in English may count towards the major. HISP 321: Iberian Cultural Studies (4) HISP 322: Latin American Cultural Studies (4) HISP 325: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Studies (4) LTST 341: Latino/a/x Experiences in the U.S. (4) LTST 342: U.S. Latino/a/s Literary and Cultural Studies (4) HISP 401: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics (4) HISP 403: Advanced

latest title is Apocalypse, Darling, a lyric narrative forthcoming in February 2018 from Ohio State University Press, the kickoff book in Machete: The Ohio State Series in Literary Nonfiction. She is the author of Body Geographic (University of Nebraska Press/American Lives Series), winner of a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir, an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal in Essay/Creative Nonfiction and a 2013 IndieFab Bronze Award for Essays. In a starred review Kirkus called Body

AltchechLexi JasonRobert P. EricksenLaura BradeMolly LobergAdriana M. BrodskyPresentation Title: “‘En Memoria de Nuestros Hermanos.’: Argentine Sephardim and the Holocaust.” Who: Professor Adriana M. Brodsky, St. Mary’s College of Maryland Bio: Adriana M. Brodsky is Professor of Latin American and Jewish History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her book Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Creating Community and National Identity, 1880-1960, appeared in 2016, and her most recent publication is a co-edited volume