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Fiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Scott Nadelson is the author of four story collections, most recently The Fourth Corner of the World; a memoir, The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress; and a novel, Between You and Me. His stories and essays have appeared in Harvard Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor.
Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “As a writer, I am endlessly surprised and fascinated by the possibilities offered by narrative and by language; as a teacher, I try to get students excited about those possibilities by sharing my discoveries and
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Cheri Souza’s philanthropy leadership is motivated by the responsibility she feels to serve her Hawaiian community. When Cheri Souza ’01, MBA ’03 first stepped onto campus at Pacific Lutheran University, the undergraduate from Hawai‘i could not have imagined her future would include redefining philanthropic efforts…
embracing grantee empowerment, offering increased autonomy, opportunities for learning, and assistance in fostering collaborative relationships statewide. The revolutionary approach means change can continue even after the Stupski Foundation ends.Asked what is next for her after 2029, Souza laughed. “I never imagined I would work in philanthropy,” says Souza. “I didn’t have a background in it. But it was an opportunity I could not pass up, so looking past 2029 I am open to all possibilities.” Yet Souza
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Professor of Religion and Culture | Global & Cultural Studies | suzanne.crawford@plu.edu | 253-535-8107 | Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture.
Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Professor of Religion and Culture Phone: 253-535-8107 Email: suzanne.crawford@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-C Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003 M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1997 B.A., Willamette University, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Native American Religious Traditions Religious Diversity in North America Health, Healing, and Religious and Cultural
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Professor of Religion and Culture | Global Studies Program | suzanne.crawford@plu.edu | 253-535-8107 | Suzanne Crawford O’Brien’s area of specialization is Religion and Culture, with emphases in Native American religious traditions, and comparative studies of minority religious communities in North America, including religion and healthcare, gender and ethnicity, and religion and popular culture.
Suzanne Crawford O’Brien Professor of Religion and Culture Phone: 253-535-8107 Email: suzanne.crawford@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-C Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2003 M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1997 B.A., Willamette University, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Native American Religious Traditions Religious Diversity in North America Health, Healing, and Religious and Cultural
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Dr. Edward J. Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of the History of Art at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where he also serves as Deputy Director of the Institute. Dr.
to the art of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author of more than 35 books and book length exhibition catalogues on the arts of the Americas from the colonial era to today. His most recent book and curatorial project was “Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx” which was at the NY Botanical Garden in the spring and summer of 2019. Burle Marx, a renowned garden architect, sculptor, painter, print maker and pedagogue, was especially distinguished for his activism
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‘Souls of Black Girls’ When filmmaker Daphne Valerius flipped through magazines as a young girl, she rarely, if ever, saw anyone that looked like her – then a shy young black girl growing up in Rhode Island.“You looked through the magazines and didn’t see one…
child and had to deal with her self image, while Ifill grew up during the era of black pride. “She internalized that,” Valerius said. “So there wasn’t anything anyone could say to make her feel she wasn’t beautiful.” Both Barack and Michelle Obama are also breaking apart the stereotypes that have often shaped how black women and men see themselves, Valerius added. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from St. John University in New York, Valerius went on to earn her
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As part of the SOAC Focus Series – Empowerment, there was a discussion with PLU students and the cast of “How I Learned to Drive.” (Photos by John Froschauer) Facets of self By James Olson ’14 Since its 1997 debut off-Broadway, Paula Vogel’s “How I…
Professor Lori Lee Wallace – hosted a Q&A to discuss the show’s themes, and respond to a variety of audience reactions. A majority of the questions centered around the characters of Uncle Peck and Lil’ Bit, and the approach that Wallace, Sorenson, and Schultz took in making this story unfold without trivializing the experience of child abuse, while still understanding the demands of a live performance. In response to a question about living in the “era of Law & Order SVU,” where graphic content is
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Sometimes being sick isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, what it means to be sick — or to be healthy for that matter — might surprise us.
thematically unified pair of courses. Priority will be given to students who have declared or intend to pursue careers in medicine, counseling, hospital chaplaincy, or other healing traditions. Llewellyn Ihssen’s course (RELI 227) will explore the ways in which illness and healing have been understood within the Christian religion, from the earliest days of the Jesus movement to the contemporary era. As these courses make clear, sources of illness, approaches to healing, and ways of making sense of death
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The Department of Global and Cultural Studies is a dynamic curricular hub for global education made up of the following programs: Chinese and Chinese Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Global
Studies, Global Studies, and Hispanic Studies and minors in Chinese and Latino Studies. The department also contributes to Native American and Indigenous Studies by offering introductory level courses in Southern Lushootseed. Bachelor of Arts DegreeChinese and Chinese Studies PLU’s Chinese and Chinese Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program which is designed to provide students interested in China a broad foundation in Chinese language, culture, and history and an opportunity to focus on the
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Graduation with Honors in Chemistry Katherine Maloney American Institute of Chemists (AIC) (Outstanding Senior) Peter Anderson Brita Willis Ramstad Scholar Susan Carnine (120) Patrick Pastor (125) General Chemistry Award (CRC) Benjamin Larsen Sophomore Organic Award (ACS POLYED) Scott Stewart Analytical Chemistry Award (ACS) Inorganic Chemistry Award (ACS) Senior Organic Award (ACS DOC) Hypercube Scholar Award...
Graduation with Honors in Chemistry Katherine Maloney American Institute of Chemists (AIC) (Outstanding Senior) Peter Anderson Brita Willis Ramstad Scholar Susan Carnine (120) Patrick Pastor (125) General Chemistry Award (CRC) Benjamin Larsen Sophomore Organic Award (ACS POLYED) Scott Stewart Analytical Chemistry Award (ACS) Inorganic Chemistry Award (ACS) Senior Organic Award (ACS DOC) Hypercube Scholar Award (Hypercube, Inc.) Physical Chemistry Award (ACS PHYS)
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