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  • Benson Family Chair in Business and Economic History | Department of History | halvormj@plu.edu | 253-535-8258 | Michael Halvorson teaches business and economic history courses in the Department of History at PLU, as well as classes on innovation and the history of technology.

    Hopkins, 2022) : View Book Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (ACM Books 2020) : View Book The Renaissance: All That Matters (McGraw-Hill 2015) : View Book Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step (Microsoft Press 2013) : View Book Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy (Ashgate 2010) : View Book Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step (Microsoft Press 2010) : View Book Defining Community in Early Modern Europe (Ashgate 2008

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

    : Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption (Harvard University Press 1998) : View Book To Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775 - 1783 (University of North Carolina Press, 1984) : View Book Selected Presentations Invited Speaker, 2014 Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture’s Fifth International Conference on Adoption: “Adoption Crossing Boundaries”, Book Session: E. Wayne Carp, “Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American

  • Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | Office of the Provost | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.

    time in New Orleans, he now considers “The Big Easy” like a second home. Scott arrives at PLU from Ohio Northern University, a small liberal arts school in northwest Ohio, where he served as Director of University Writing. His teaching interests include: first-year writing, community and public literacy, professional writing with an emphasis on new media, and the application of rhetorical theory to visual and spatial artifacts. His research interests are focused on many of these same topics, as

  • Associate Professor of English | Department of English | solveig.robinson@plu.edu | 253-535-7241 | Dr.

    Book Victorian Literature Books The Book in Society: An Introduction to Print Culture (Broadview Press 2014) : View Book A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (Broadview Press 2003) : View Book Selected Articles "The Victorian Novel and the Reviews." The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel 2013: "Victoria Woodhull-Martin and The Humanitarian (1892–1901): Feminism and Eugenics at the Fin de Siècle." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 6.2, 2010: "'Sir, It is an

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | David Biespiel is a contributing writer at The Rumpus, Partisan, American Poetry Review, Politico, New Republic, Slate, Poetry, and The New York Times, among other publications.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Charming Gardeners and The Book of Men and Women, which was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by the Poetry Foundation and received the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry.  His books of essays include A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns on Poetry and a book on creativity, Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces.  He is a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle.  Recipient of Lannan, National Endowment for the Arts, and Stegner fellowships, he has taught at Stanford University, University of Maryland, George Washington University, Portland State University, and Wake Forest University, in addition to other colleges and universities.  He is a longtime faculty member in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University and is the founder of the Attic Institute of Arts and Letters in Portland. Mentor.

    with metaphors and figures of feeling and thought, mysteries and politics, birth and death, and all the occasions we experience between womb and tomb. Poetic utterance ritualizes how we come to knowledge. Poetic form ceremonializes those rituals. In the same way that poems illuminate our individual lives, poems also help us understand ourselves as a culture. Or at least they spur us to ask the questions. Poetic utterance mythologizes our journey of being. Poetic utterance tells and interprets our

  • Dean of Inclusive Excellence | Office of the Provost | jennifer.smith@plu.edu | 253-535-7811

    Jennifer Smith Dean of Inclusive Excellence Phone: 253-535-7811 Email: jennifer.smith@plu.edu Professional Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Faculty International Honors Faculty Education Ph.D., English, Western Michigan University, 2006 M.A., English, Miami University, 2001 B.A., English, Franklin College, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Modern & Contemporary British Literature LGBTQ Studies Women's Literature Popular Culture

  • Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | edgartj@plu.edu | 253-535-7238 | Tom grew up in Colorado and attended college at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

    . 25, 2017: 8-11 . Edgar, T . "The distribution of the number of parts of m-ary partitions modulo m." Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics Vol. 47, 2017: 1825-1838. Edgar, T. and Meyer, N.C. "A Visual Validation of Viète's Verification." The College Mathematics Journal Vol. 48, 2017: 90-96. Edgar, T., Domini, D., Johnson, D. "Digital representations of rows of Pascal’s triangle with no entries divisible by a fixed prime power." Pi Mu Epsilon Journal 2017: Edgar, T. and Sklar J.. "A Confused

  • Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.

    American Christianity Christianity and Race Evangelicalism Gender and Religion Religion and Politics Selected Publications American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness A New Book Argues This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture” White Evangelical Voters: Trump as a Spiritual Leader Evangelical Homeschooling and the Development of “Family Values Where Are the Culture Wars? A Hard-Edged Gospel: The Rise and Fall of Mark Driscoll Government End Times? Pray

  • Dean, College of Liberal Studies | College of Liberal Studies | stephanie.johnson@plu.edu | 253-535-8397 | Dr.

    -Sleep, and Victorian Death Culture," - Victorian Literature and Culture (June 2018) "'Home one and all': Redeeming the Whore of Babylon in Christina Rossetti's Religious Poetry," Victorian Poetry (Spring 2011) "Aurora Leigh's Radical Youth: Derridean Perergon and the Narrative Frame in 'A Vision of Poets,'" Victorian Poetry (Winter 2006) Biography Dr. Stephanie Johnson is Dean of the College of Liberal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) and Professor of English. Prior to beginning as dean

  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | reedtr@plu.edu | I am a PLU alum.

    Talia Reed, RNC, BSN, MSN Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: reedtr@plu.edu Professional Biography Education MSN, Nursing, Western Governors University BSN, Nursing , Pacific Lutheran University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Obstetrics Biography I am a PLU alum. I love the outdoors, hiking, camping, snow shoeing. I have four lovely teenage children who keep me busy when I am not teaching. I love the culture and students here at PLU and having the opportunity to bring up the next generation

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