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  • Lecturer | Music | buchanml@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Marlette Buchanan is an accomplished performer of opera, musical theatre, and other genres of music.

    earned her award nominations from Broadway World. Marlette is a graduate of Boston University with a Master of Music degree. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fisk University, where she toured nationally and recorded as the lead soloist with the Jubilee Singers. A regional finalist at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Ms. Buchanan was also a finalist in the national MacAllister and Eleanor Lieber Awards. In addition to her operatic roles, Marlette has also performed in

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  • Chair of Physics | Department of Physics | bret.underwood@plu.edu | 253-535-7267 | I am currently a Professor of Physics at Pacific Lutheran University.

    , S. Shajidul Haque and B. Underwood. "Cosmological Complexity." Physical Review D 101 Vol. 10, 2020: S. Das, S. S. Haque and B. Underwood. "Constraints and Horizons for de Sitter with Extra Dimensions." Physical Review D 100 Vol. 4, 2019: D.J. Burger, N. Moynihan, S. Das, S. Shajidul Haque and B. Underwood. "Towards the Raychaudhuri Equation Beyond General Relativity." Physical Review D98 Vol. 2, 2018: Cownden, B., Frey, A., Marsh, D., Underwood, B. "Dimensional reduction for D3-brane moduli

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  • Assistant Professor of Communication, Film & Media Studies | Communication, Media & Design Arts | bphipps@plu.edu | 253-535-7573 | Dr.

    , and game studies. She is a member of the National Communication Association and the Association of Internet Researchers. Fun Facts I have lived in every time zone (yes including Mountain) in the continental United States within the past ten years. I have more than 90 platinum trophies on my PlayStation 5. You could say I’m a type A personality. Service As part of my commitment to embedded digital ethnographic studies, I have raised more than $15,000 for various charities (Black Girls Code, the

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  • Professor of History, Emeritus | Department of History | sobania@plu.edu | Dr.

    Putting the Local in Global Education: Models for Transformative Learning through Domestic Off-Campus Programs (Stylus Press, 2015), which includes not his own chapter, and those authored by six other PLU colleagues. During an academic leave during the 2012-13 academic year, he spent the fall semester in Ethiopia, completing the research and writing draft chapters for a book on the place of contemporary Ethiopian church painters and painting. Paintings cover the walls of Ethiopian churches from floor

  • Lecturer - Guitar | Guitar & Lute Program | brownec@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | A specialist in standard classical guitar as well as various early guitars and lutes, Elizabeth C.

    . Elizabeth’s first solo recording, La Folia de España: Dances for Guitar, features works for baroque, 19th century, and modern guitars, and has been praised for its “…apparently effortless ease.” (Lute News, UK) She is also featured in the recording Dolce Desio as a member of the early music trio Le Nuove Musiche, and in the recording Navidad: Christmas in the New World with Seattle Pro Musica. Her second solo recording, In Her Honor, includes music from the Princess [Queen] Anne Guitarbook and the

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  • Department Chair of History | Department of History | mergenrm@plu.edu | 253-535-7395 | Rebekah M.K.

    Association. A former fellow at the Newberry Library, she has received research funding from that institution, the St. Louis Mercantile Library, and the University of Chicago. She has published several book reviews and encyclopedia entries and is revising her dissertation into a book-length manuscript and completing two articles.

  • Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | suttonps@plu.edu | 253-535-7285 | Paul Sutton teaches sociocultural foundations of education, secondary humanities methods, and secondary literacy courses as well as various seminar courses in the undergrad and graduate-level teacher education programs.

    topics of equity and racial equity, project- and problem-based learning, and teacher learning and collaboration. Before transitioning into his current role, he spent 8 years as a public high school English teacher, worked as an adjunct instructor at several community colleges in the greater Puget Sound region, and worked as a teacher in a language school in Istanbul, Turkey. He is passionate about issues of equity and racial equity in education. In his personal and profession life, he participates in

  • Director, Anthropology Program | Department of Anthropology | andrewbw@plu.edu | 253-535-8389 | Bradford W.

    Bradford Andrews Director, Anthropology Program Phone: 253-535-8389 Email: andrewbw@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 142 Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of Anthropology Education Ph.D., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1999 M.A., Anthropology, Penn State University, 1995 B.A., Anthropology, Ft. Lewis College, Durango, CO, 1986 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Craft Production Lithic Technology Cultural Ecology New World

  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | kristina.kenning@plu.edu | I am originally from Missoula Montana and have been a nurse for over 12 years.

    over 12 years. I worked in acute care med/surg nursing before transitioning into education. I taught for 8 years at a small college in Helena, MT and have experience in all aspects of nursing education. Teaching student nurses is my passion and I am so excited to be joining the team of excellent faculty at PLU. In my spare time I love fly fishing, kayaking and traveling with my family. Currently serving on the Montana Board of Nursing as a Simulation Task Force Member and Presenter

  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.

    liked. But as artists who are also thinkers, we want to find those truths that other people are missing and perhaps even avoiding. It is the function of the writer in particular to say out loud those things people are afraid to mention. When I am stuck, I try to go back to the fundamental question: what do I see that I want other people to see? I also ask: what am I seeing that others are missing? This allows me to try to find something new in the world, and in my writing–and nothing brings about