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  • Associate Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida (USF). He completed his undergraduate studies in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Ghana, in 1987. He earned an MA in History from Wilfrid Laurier University, in Canada, in 1991, and a Ph.D. in History from Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada, in 1997. Kissi was an Andrew W. Mellon post-doctoral fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University from 1998 to 1999 and

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    ’24 recognized for capstone documentary “Echos of the Sound” Key Peninsula News Mar. 21, 2024 President Belton joins discussion about college-employer partnerships at economic development event South Sound Business Feb. 11, 2024 PLU, MultiCare, WSU roll out new health care partnership Tacoma Weekly Feb. 7, 2024 PLU, MultiCare, and WSU Announce Historic Partnership to Improve Access to Health Care South Sound Business Feb. 7, 2024 New medical center at PLU might help Pierce County ‘health care

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  • , you know, this diversity that we use more broadly today.” Along with faculty member Tamara Williams, Emily launched Puentes her first year at PLU, and went on to help form the Diversity Coalition in the fall of 1997, with leaders from groups like the Asian Pacific Islander Club, the Muslim Students Association, B.L.A.C.K. at PLU, and Harmony. The groups intentionally networked with each another to support one another’s events and have hard conversations about their goals, especially regarding the

  • true embodiment of this idea.  At PLU, Xi Zhu is a teacher, with valuable knowledge and deep interest in Chinese pre-modern literature. But every day this past fall, after teaching his course at PLU, Zhu commuted north to the University of Washington to take a class for his PhD. While both teaching a class and taking a class, Zhu was also working on his dissertation.  As a doctoral student, Zhu is studying a manuscript version of a pre-300 B.C.E. Chinese text known in English as the Classic of Odes

  • Latinx person, as an indigenous person, as an Asian person, and so on,” she explains. “These are not always comfortable conversations, but I’ve found great joy and a sort of liberation in the opportunities for honesty, resolve and direction they can provide.” -Kristy Gledhill ’21 (pictured above) Kristy Gledhill ’21, a recent graduate of Rainier Writing Workshop, PLU’s creative writing MFA program, agrees. “Those breakout discussions can be the most valuable part of the event, but they can also be

  • . Was there a particularly memorable project or professor from the past four years? I’ve taken many upper-level Hispanic Studies classes with Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain. Dr. Urdangarain is from Uruguay and started a project with Dr. Rona Kaufman interviewing the residents of a Jewish nursing home in Montevideo, their caregivers and loved ones. We’re creating a digital archive of narratives collected from Uruguayan Jews who experienced the Holocaust, migration and the diaspora. So for the past 12

  • HISP 351 Hispanic Voices for Social Change for Heritage Speakers - VW, GE HISP 423 Special Topics in Iberian Literature & Cultures - IT, GE HISP 433 Special Topics in Latin American Literatures & Cultures - IT, GE HIST 102 The Pre-Modern World: Explorations & Encounters - ES, GE HIST 103 Conflicts and Convergences in the Modern World - ES, GE HIST 107 Ancient Near East - IT, GE HIST 109 East Asian Societies - ES, GE HIST 210 Contemporary Global Issues: Migration, Poverty, and Conflict - ES, GE HIST

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 10, 2016)- Typically, summer allows college students to take advantage of free time that’s hard to come by during the academic year. But for many Lutes, summer is a time to work hard and continue their vocational endeavors. Students travel, work internships…

    and a community member.” Dela Cruz double majored in history and literature. She also studied away for a January Term in Manchester, England, and a semester in Oaxaca, Mexico. She said she hopes to go to graduate school in a few years to study student affairs. Eventually, she hopes to work at a university in academic advising or leadership, specifically to help students of color and first-generation students. She said he is always thinking about her one wild and precious life, thanks to her time