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  • Housing is something many of us take for granted. Much more than just a place to sleep and a structure to shelter us from the elements, our homes provide the space we need to maintain a functional life. It’s where we manage our mental health,…

    victim to predatory lending schemes. Harmon now oversees shelters, affordable housing programs and funding as the housing assistance bureau chief for Arlington County in Virginia. Affordable housing work is “a passion that found me,” Harmon says. “It showed me tangible ways I could help make a real difference in people’s lives. Safe, decent and stable housing is the American Dream.” “Becoming a housing advocate, working for our most vulnerable, puts you on the front lines to fight for policy and

  • 8:15 a.m. | March 8 | Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts   Who: Bob Ferguson Title: Washington State Attorney General Bio: Bob Ferguson is Washington State’s 18th Attorney

    Sun-Hee Park Title: Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies with affiliations in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California – Santa Barbara Bio: Lisa Sun-Hee Park is professor and chair of Asian American Studies, with affiliations in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California – Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Northwestern University. Park’s interdisciplinary research focuses on the politics of migration, race, health, and

  • Angie Hambrick, PLU’s Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Justice and Sustainability, sits down with anthropology professor and PLU Peace Corps Prep Program Coordinator Katherine Wiley, Hispanic studies professor Giovanna Urdangarain, and anthropology and global studies professor Dr. Ami Shah to discuss service abroad. This rich…

    that only legally abolished slavery in 1981. Having two different experiences in Mauritania to draw from, Wiley reflects on her deepened awareness of her positionality, identity, and capacity for learning. Dr. Ami Shah’s research in Nigeria and India consists of examining the effects of neoliberal urban development policies on livelihoods, identities and state-society relations for the urban poor. As a South Asian woman researching in India, she speaks to her experience of “double strangerhood” or

  • Associate Professor of Anthropology | The PLU Chinese Studies Program | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.

    ). More recently, she has examined contemporary Japanese women’s fertility with regard to their family structure and relationships. Her recent work has been published in such peer review journals as Human Organization (2008 and 2012), Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2009), Ethnology (2009), and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2010). Courses she teaches at PLU include “Introduction to Human Cultural Diversity,” “Anthropology of Age,” “East Asian Cultures,” “Ethnic

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  • Associate Professor of Anthropology | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.

    ). More recently, she has examined contemporary Japanese women’s fertility with regard to their family structure and relationships. Her recent work has been published in such peer review journals as Human Organization (2008 and 2012), Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2009), Ethnology (2009), and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2010). Courses she teaches at PLU include “Introduction to Human Cultural Diversity,” “Anthropology of Age,” “East Asian Cultures,” “Ethnic

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  • Associate Professor of Anthropology | Global & Cultural Studies | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.

    ). More recently, she has examined contemporary Japanese women’s fertility with regard to their family structure and relationships. Her recent work has been published in such peer review journals as Human Organization (2008 and 2012), Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2009), Ethnology (2009), and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2010). Courses she teaches at PLU include “Introduction to Human Cultural Diversity,” “Anthropology of Age,” “East Asian Cultures,” “Ethnic

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  • Associate Professor of Anthropology | Global Studies Program | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.

    ). More recently, she has examined contemporary Japanese women’s fertility with regard to their family structure and relationships. Her recent work has been published in such peer review journals as Human Organization (2008 and 2012), Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2009), Ethnology (2009), and Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2010). Courses she teaches at PLU include “Introduction to Human Cultural Diversity,” “Anthropology of Age,” “East Asian Cultures,” “Ethnic

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  • Alumna, graduate speak at commencement More than 700 undergraduate and graduate students will participate in Spring Commencement 2008 at the Tacoma Dome on Sunday, May 25 at 2:30 p.m. The ceremony features a keynote address by career diplomat Joyce Barr ’76, as well as a…

    university’s recent agreement program with the University of the West Indies. Hughes will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in geosciences. She spent over a year as an environmental intern for the Port of Tacoma. At PLU, she’s been active in numerous student organizations, and received the Leaders of Distinction and Inspirational Woman awards. A former U.S. Ambassador to Namibia from 2004 to 2007, Barr is currently the executive director of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the State Department. Since

  • 9:15 – 10:20 a.m. | March 9 Who: Eamonn Baker, Training Co-ordinator, Towards Understanding and Healing

    Center at the University of California, Davis. An expert in Mexican and Mexican American cultural studies and gender/sexuality and migration studies, since 2016 he has coordinated the Humanizing Deportation digital storytelling project. The Humanizing Deportation Project: Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge, a collaborative project by members of the its research team, is forthcoming in 2022 from University of Texas Press. Publications: Humanizing Deportation Website: https

  • Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. | Confucius Institute of the State of Washington | xinmin.liu@wsu.edu | 509-335-8713 | Xinmin Liu is an associate professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures at Washington State University.

    Xinmin Liu Associate Professor of Chinese and American Studies and Culture, Washington State University. Phone: 509-335-8713 Email: xinmin.liu@wsu.edu Biography Biography Xinmin Liu is an associate professor of Chinese and Comparative Cultures at Washington State University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale in 1997, and is currently teaching Chinese culture, film and language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at WSU. His teaching and research are chiefly

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