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  • Senior Lecturer in Judaism | Religion | kaddenbj@plu.edu | 253-535-7243 | Bruce Kadden is a retired rabbi of Temple Beth El in Tacoma where he taught Judaism.

    Bruce Kadden Senior Lecturer in Judaism Phone: 253-535-7243 Email: kaddenbj@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 220-J Professional Biography Education Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College, 1981 M.A., Hebrew Letters, Hebrew Union College, 1979 B.A., Religious Studies with Honors in Humanities, Stanford University, 1976 Books Teaching Mitzvot: Concepts, Values and Activities co-authored with Barbara Binder Kadden (A.R.E. Publishing, Inc. 2003) : View Book Teaching Jewish

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  • Chair, Department of Religion | Religion | choiaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7314 | Agnes Choi teaches courses in biblical studies, with a focus on the earliest generations of Christianity and Judaism during the Second Temple Period.

    consider how these Christian and Jewish texts should be understood in their ancient contexts. She also teaches courses in the International Honors Program and the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Program. In Academic Year 2018-19, she received PLU’s Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching. She also received a Graves Award in the Humanities (biennial award, 2021-23), which recognizes unusual skill and enthusiasm in teaching, as well as scholarly merit. Her areas of research include archaeology in the

  • 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

  • Professor of English | Department of English | marcusls@plu.edu | 253-535-7312 | Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995.  She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program.  She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly teaches a popular writing seminar on Banned Books for the First Year Experience Program.  Her constellation of courses in the English department include:  The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination; American Literature 1914-45: Race, Sex, and War; Anne Frank as a Holocaust Icon; a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts; an English Studies course on Gendered Literacy; Feminist Approaches to Literature; Women Writers and the Body Politic; and a first-year seminar on Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman.  Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter:  A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here.     .

    Teaching Excellence Award, PLU Center for Teaching and Learning, 2001 Graves Award in the Humanities, 1998 Biography Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995.  She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program.  She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly

  • Kurt Mayer Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | ericksrp@plu.edu | Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus and Professor of History at PLU, earned his Ph.D.

    Museum, and the Lutheran Academy of Scholars at Harvard University; he has received research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others; he is a founding member on the board of editors of a German journal, Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, and of an online journal, Contemporary Church History Quarterly; and he serves as Chair of the Committee on Ethics, Religion and the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2004 Ericksen delivered the biennial Kaplan Holocaust Lectures

  • Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | davidsef@plu.edu | 253-535-7311 | If I had to describe my identity with a Facebook relationship status it would read: “It’s complicated”.

    History: Navigating Through the Memory Sites of the Panama Canal.” The Global South. 6.2 (2012): 130-153. Print. Accolades PLU Excellence in Teaching Award, 2023-24 Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education Faculty Research Grant, AY 2020-2021. Fellow, Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), University of Victoria, June 2017. Inspirational Woman Recognition, PLU Center for Gender Equity, 2016. Grant Recipient, Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, National Endowment of the Humanties

  • Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | sklarjk@plu.edu | 253-535-8341 | Jessica received her Ph.D.

    ! (& Mathematics), Seattle, WA (March 8, 2018) Willamette Valley REU-RET Consortium for Math Research (invited), Illuminating Confused Electrician Problems, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (July 8, 2014) 2012 Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (invited), Cabbages and Kings: Mathematics and the Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (With Elizabeth S. Sklar.) Presented by Amy Kaufman, Middle Tennessee State University. (A medical emergency kept my co-speaker and I from attending the conference.) July

  • Benson Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | carpw@plu.edu | E.

    History of Orphans and Orphanages in the United States." Bibliography issue, Adoption & Culture Vol. 4, 2014: 43-51. Accolades Chair, Grace Abbott Award, Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, 2014 Chair, Merle Curti Award, Organization of American Historians, 2013-2014 Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Spring, 2008 Regency Advancement Award, Pacific Lutheran University, 2009-2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and

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

    , Austin, TX (2002) The American Psychological Association (APA) National Convention, Sport Psychology Workshop: A Post-Olympic Review, Chicago, IL (2002) Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology (AAASP), Women Working in Sport Psychology, Orlando, FL (2001) Invited Lecture, SC Johnson Company: Global Forum (87 Countries), Peak Performance in the Workplace, Hong Kong, China (2000) Invited Lecture, University of Arizona, Miller Humanities Lecture, Applied Sport Psychology in the

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

    : "Rosario Ferré Versus Rosario Ferré: el prefacio como centro de disputa." Ciberletras 32 July 2014: Accolades Wang Center Student-Faculty Research Grant, Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Pacific Lutheran University, for the project “Jewish Uruguayan Memories at the Crossroads of Childhood and Old Age” conducted with student Riley Dolan in Montevideo, Uruguay (Jan. 2019) Division of Humanities Special Recognition, Pacific Lutheran University, “for work with and for undocumented