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integrating the book into their curriculum. Lisa Marcus, associate professor of English, plans to teach the book in her Writing 101 seminar on “Banned Books.” She wants students to recognize that Urrea’s book has been banned in Arizona as part of a push to suppress ethnic studies, particularly works that address Mexican-American history and experience. Students in her course – after reading about several controversial banning cases around race and sexual orientation – will take up Urrea’s book in the

& Communications Jerry White remembers sitting in his wheelchair in an Israeli hospital, looking at his nurse. When he found her, she just stared back, without sympathy, making no effort to help the 20-year-old American who had just had his right leg blown off by a landmine the week before. “I expected them to help me, but the nurses just stared back,” remembers White, now working for the U.S. State Department as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization. “They told me to get my

of Regents. Her PLU beginnings, however, weren’t without some uncertainty. “When I first came here, a little more than 30 years ago, I came from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, in the shadows of race riots of the late 60s and had not done a lot of traveling outside of the Midwest,” Long, who is African American, told an attentive on-campus crowd at PLU’s Day of Vocation in 2016. Long is a firm believer that being pushed out of your comfort zone — the discomfort of new surroundings, new challenges

, rather than just for monetary means. What is the unique perspective that you bring to the internship? I am an Asian American woman who grew up in Montana, which is a Republican state. I definitely think there are unique experiences there. I am the only daughter in a household with three brothers. There is a lot that can be derived from that experience. Coming out here to Washington, and meeting, speaking, and connecting with people who hold many different beliefs than I do, my thought processes have

Manchester. The education half I would describe as interesting and the abroad part I would describe as amazing. I also think studying abroad helped me a lot because some of my closest coworkers have either been in Europe or from Europe, also South America. Having this experience behind me I think helped with connecting and not being “that American” as much. In our field it is becoming increasingly common to not just have teams in different countries, but to have a single team composed of people in

, Armenian, Cambodian, Rwandan and Native American genocides. Each genocide is its own unit with its own texts, explored both individually and comparatively, through a combination of historical texts, films, memoirs, and first-person testimonies. This fall, Marcus and Griech-Polelle had funding to invite survivors and/or descendants of survivors from each genocide studied in the course, thus giving students a more personal and immediate way to think about each genocide and its legacy in the present