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Biography Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture. Her research interests address questions of healing, place, and ecology, and how religious belief and practice can work to promote ecological and social justice in Ireland and in North America. Most

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

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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

. Before coming to PLU, she lived in Boston, Hanover, NH and New York City. Jenny teaches American literature from 1860 to the present, with a special emphasis on the representation of race, gender and sexuality in fiction written after 1945.  She also teaches a Writing 101 course on water, politics and place for the First Year Experience Program. Her research traces the development of narratives of affiliation in the post-1960 North American novel. In their depiction of alternative forms of loving

Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Cognitive science Language learning Psycholinguistics Phonology Speech perception Selected Articles Finley, S. "Morphological cues as an aid to word learning: A cross-situational word learning study." Journal of Cognitive Psychology 2022: Finley, S., Milward, B., Lewis, T., and Charania, S. "Gender bias in morphological inferences." Language and Cognition 2022: Wang, S. and Finley, S. "Directionality Effects and Exceptions in Learning Phonological Alternations." In

both sport psychology and sport sociology. Her scholarly interests focus on gender issues in sport as well as coaching effectiveness. She brings practical experience in both arenas having coached at Stetson University, Miami University of Ohio and Pacific Lutheran University and having worked in numerous arenas as a mental skills consultant. Dr. Mann’s academic acumen on issues related to diversity and social justice bring much needed expertise to the department and will undoubtedly serve to

Biography Antonios Finitsis’ approach to biblical literature is deeply socio-historical. Since this literature was shaped under the shadow of powerful empires, his research revolves around the lasting impact of colonial interests and power structures in the expression of religion and religious tradition. His most recent book is a collection of essays that examine the numerous ways in which dress communicates power in the Hebrew Bible. He is currently working on a second volume of Dress and the Hebrew

): 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

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