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By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Jan. 29, 2015)—Molly Loberg ’98 has been awarded the History Article Prize by The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the oldest and largest association for female historians in the country, for her publication “The Streetscape…
uses of the city streets of Berlin during the 1920s and ’30s. She discusses how the city landscape translated and revealed the struggle of the political and economic crises of the period. By using different types of research tools, including police reports, photographs, newspaper articles and archives, Loberg demonstrated how interwar crises can be tracked in the streets of Berlin. She showed how the cityscape not only revealed social, political and economic tensions but also how governments
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News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.
Major Minute Monday: Political Science Curious about what it’s like to major in Political Science at PLU? In this quick video, Professor Michael Artime breaks down the essentials of the program, from the dynamic courses you’ll take to the real-world skills you’ll gain. Whether you’re into studying American government institutions,… November 11, 2024 AcademicsPolitical SciencePre-LawProfessors
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.…
innovator in the industry. In addition to her Business and Economics majors, Kristin is an Innovation Studies minor and a Religion minor. The faculty mentors for this project are Prof. Michael Halvorson (History/Innovation Studies) and Prof. Karen Travis (Economics). Housing and Employment Equality in Seattle Gracie Anderson (History, Political Science) has received funding to study ‘Straight,’ ‘Gay,’ and ‘Queer’ opposition to Initiative 13, a 1978 proposal that sought to overturn recently won legal
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By Michael Halvorson, ’85. The Benson Program in Business and Economic History is pleased to announce the selection of three student-faculty research teams for Summer 2021. The fellowships are selected by the Innovation Studies steering committee and funded through the generous support of Dale E.…
plans to research several hotel properties on the islands and integrate data from Airbnb, a recent innovator in the industry. In addition to her Business and Economics majors, Kristin is an Innovation Studies minor and a Religion minor. The faculty mentors for this project are Prof. Michael Halvorson (History/Innovation Studies) and Prof. Karen Travis (Economics). Housing and Employment Equality in Seattle Gracie Anderson (History, Political Science) has received funding to study ‘Straight,’ ‘Gay
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TACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Oneida Blagg — Pierce College’s first director of equity, diversity and inclusion — says her commitment to those issues started long before she pioneered this new position at the community college. Blagg’s parents raised her to be politically aware,…
, with a strong desire to advocate for what she believed in. They often would watch the news together and discuss major political issues of the time. “My parents wanted to prepare us, because they knew we were mixed (race) kids going out into a world that wasn’t going to be receptive,” said Blagg, a Pacific Lutheran University graduate of 1982 and 1991. That was the birth of her interest in politics and equity. Blagg studied political science as an undergraduate at PLU, before returning to the
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TACOMA, Wash. (May 23, 2019 ) — Judging by its accomplishments, Pacific Lutheran University’s Class of 2019 is poised to make an immediate impact on the world — mostly because they already have done so much at PLU. Here’s a look at just a handful…
done so much at PLU. Here’s a look at just a handful of outstanding members of 2019's graduating class.2019 Commencement student speaker: April Rose NguyenMajors: Political Science and Strategic Communication Hometown: Kent, WA Selected accomplishments: Graduation Honors (cum laude); Act Six Scholar; Rieke Scholar; Spirit of Diversity Award; International Honors Program; Pinnacle Society; organizer, Let’s Talk About: Religious Diversity forum series; At-Large Senator, ASPLU; At-Large Board Member
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24 semester hours, completed with a grade of C- or higher and with a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher in those courses. (Please see the comprehensive list of courses in the program.
. ENVT/GEOS 104: Conservation of Natural Resources ENVT/RELI 239: Environment and Culture 2. The Environment and Science Eight semester hours Students select two environmental studies courses from two different departments among biology, chemistry, and earth sciences. 3. The Environment and Society Four semester hours Students select one environmental studies course from anthropology, economics, history, or political science. 4. The Environment and Sensibility Four semester hours Students select one
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Chair, Global and Cultural Studies | Interdisciplinary Programs | shah@plu.edu | 253-535-7687 | Dr.
International Development International Relations IPE Neoliberalism Urban Studies Identity Ethnic Conflict Citizenship West Africa South Asia Books Resurrecting the Death of God: The Past, Present, and Future of Radical Theology co-edited with Daniel J. Peterson (SUNY Press 2014) : View Book Biography Dr. Shah joined the Department of Political Science at PLU in 2012, and Global Studies and Anthropology in 2014. She teaches classes focused on Global Development, International Relations, Africa, South Asia
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News Anchor-KUNS | Understanding the World Through Sports and Recreation | Jaime Méndez serves as an anchor/reporter for the newscast Noticias Noroeste on KUNS 51/Univision Seattle, a thirty minute news program on the first regional Spanish language newscast in the Pacific Northwest.
Communications and Political Sciences from The Evergreen State College. Méndez has been working in Spanish language media since 1993; his work includes mainly radio, TV and theatre. Méndez hosted Latinos Días, an all Spanish morning radio show, on the first 24/7 Spanish radio station in the in the Puget Sound area on Radio Sol 1360 AM and now hosts La Voz de Washington on KXPA 1540 AM. He is dynamic and professional with broad and deep connections with the local Hispanic community. Méndez was born in Bogotá
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Raphael Lemkin’s dedication to the punishment and prevention of genocide, primarily through international legal intervention, was founded on a belief in the fundamental rights of all peoples.
genocide, but it is vital that we unpack how logical structure of thought can be used to enable violence. I suggest that once a logical system that binarizes between ‘legitimate’ groups and ‘illegitimate’ groups has been endorsed by a significant amount of those in power, the prevention of genocide falls to highly erratic, contingent political and social factors, meaning that any hope of preventing genocides in the long term must engage with how these binary logics of violence function. This essay is
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