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Kelli Russell Agodon Poetry Biography Biography Kelli Russell Agodon is a bi/queer poet and editor from the Pacific Northwest. her newest book, Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press), was named a Finalist in the Washington State Book Awards and shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Book Award Grand Prize in Poetry. She is the cofounder of Two Sylvias Press, where she works as an editor and book cover designer. her other books include Letters from the Emily Dickinson Room, Hourglass Museum
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University in Vienna, the National University of Singapore, the University of Virginia, Clark University, and MIT. He is the recipient of many academic honors, including the National Jewish Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the dignity of “University Professor,” and he serves on various academic boards, including that of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute. He has published twelve books dealing with diverse topics such as the cosmic speculations on the Temple of Solomon, relativism in architectural
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captured the world’s imagination and the book about the Kon-Tiki sold tens of millions of copies published in dozens of languages, and the documentary about the voyage won an Oscar. Over the next 55 years, until his death in 2002, Heyerdahl organized additional experimental voyages, directed archaeological excavations in such places as Easter Island, Peru, the Maldives, Russia and the Canary Islands, and he wrote numerous scientific articles and many popular books. Apart from his scientific work
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Mathematics Education Math and Social Justice Books Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education co-authored with Mathew D. Felton-Koestler and José María Menéndez (Information Age Publishing, Inc 2017) : View Book Selected Presentations Math Enthusiast series at the University of Washington Tacoma, Real world problems and real real world problems, Tacoma, WA (April 2019) Critical Issues in Mathematics Education Conference, Equity and social justice theoretical
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Montejano & Shepard Fairey Sun Mad, by artist Ester Hernandez List of books on display: From bomba to hip-hop : Puerto Rican culture and Latino identity The other Latin : writing against a singular identity Dreaming in Cuban : a novel Imagining LatinX intimacies : connecting queer stories, spaces, and sexualities AfroLatinas and LatiNegras : culture, identity, and struggle from an intersectional perspective We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? : stories The new Americans
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was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times named Empire of Cotton one of the ten most important books of 2015. Professor Beckert’s other publications have focused on the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, on labor, on democracy, on global history and on the connections between slavery and capitalism. He is currently at work on a global history of capitalism. To prepare for this year’s Benson Lecture, PLU students read selections from Empire of Cotton and studied the history of
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Jenny Johnson Poetry Biography Biography Jenny Johnson is the author of In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017). Her poems have appeared in The New York Times, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her honors include a Whiting Award, a Hodder Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship. She has also received awards and scholarships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. She is an
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department. The Torah is the most holy of sacred writings in Judaism. It’s the first of three sections of the Hebrew Bible and consists of five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The manuscript is made of about 100 feet of tanned leather and each book is transcribed in Hebrew. Every detail, such as the words, was transcribed with painstaking detail by a specially-trained scribe working under very distinct rules. The Torah Boyce donated to PLU is one of the oldest she has ever
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. For Barot the award was an acknowledgment of his work, including his books “The Darker Fall” (2002) and “Want” (2008). Being a poet can be incredibly lonely work, he said. The encouragement of something like an Artist Trust Fellowship Award can be exciting to say the least. “I know I like it (his poetry) on a good day and I know my mom likes it, but this is different,” he said. “It’s a nice difference. I feel I’ve been told I can keep going.” To be honest, he had forgotten about it when he was
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