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Professor of English | Department of English | marcusls@plu.edu | 253-535-7312 | Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995. She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly teaches a popular writing seminar on Banned Books for the First Year Experience Program. Her constellation of courses in the English department include: The Holocaust in the American Literary Imagination; American Literature 1914-45: Race, Sex, and War; Anne Frank as a Holocaust Icon; a senior seminar on History & Memory in US Slavery and Holocaust texts; an English Studies course on Gendered Literacy; Feminist Approaches to Literature; Women Writers and the Body Politic; and a first-year seminar on Holocaust Literature developed with Professor Rona Kaufman. Lisa also regularly teaches courses in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Programs. Her current research project is Snapshots of a Daughter: A Feminist Genealogy, a critical exploration of letters between Marcus’s mother and the poet Adrienne Rich, 1979-82. You can read a poem she published about visiting Auschwitz here. .
Teaching Excellence Award, PLU Center for Teaching and Learning, 2001 Graves Award in the Humanities, 1998 Biography Lisa Marcus joined the English department after completing a PhD in English at Rutgers University in 1995. She has been active in campus-wide diversity education and advocacy; she chaired the Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies program for many years, and is a founding member of PLU’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. She is deeply committed to first year education and regularly
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Dean, College of Liberal Studies | College of Liberal Studies | stephanie.johnson@plu.edu | 253-535-8397 | Dr.
in 2024, Dr. Johnson served as Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English and Communication, and Director of the Honors Program at The College of St. Scholastica. Previously, she taught as a visiting professor at University of Puget Sound and Valparaiso University, where she also held a Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Johnson earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2005 with a dissertation titled The Ethics of Epiphany in Wordsworth, Tennyson, Barret
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Lecturer - Oboe | Music | myerssd@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Shelly Myers currently serves as Lecturer of oboe at Pacific Lutheran University and holds the second oboe position in the Olympia Symphony Orchestra.
Shelly Myers Lecturer - Oboe she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: myerssd@plu.edu Biography Biography Shelly Myers currently serves as Lecturer of oboe at Pacific Lutheran University and holds the second oboe position in the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Lethbridge, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where she also pursued doctoral studies. Prior to moving to Seattle, she served
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Clinic Coordinator | Counseling Services | barnett@plu.edu | 253-535-7206 | Barbara has been a PLU staff member since 2002, first working within the Student Life Office then joining the Counseling Center team in 2016. She has held several membership positions on university committees, including the Parking Committee, PLU Staff Council, and the Campus Ministry Council. Previous to PLU, Barbara worked at a local property management company, was a retail sales clerk, and a legal assistant in Montana. .
Recognized by PLU Center for Gender Equity as a Woman with Vision / Inspirational Woman - March 2017 Recognized by PLU Women's Center as an Inspirational Woman - March 2016 Biography Barbara has been a PLU staff member since 2002, first working within the Student Life Office then joining the Counseling Center team in 2016. She has held several membership positions on university committees, including the Parking Committee, PLU Staff Council, and the Campus Ministry Council. Previous to PLU, Barbara
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Associate Dean, School of Education & Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | weissjm@plu.edu | 253-535-7282 | Dr.
undergraduate program in the PLU Education Department since 2003. With expertise in the areas of curriculum and instruction, Dr. Weiss works closely with students in the field. She also collaborates with the Clover Park School district planning, facilitating and teaching their Mentor College and beginning teacher program. Dr. Weiss also works with teachers in a local alternative high school as a facilitator for a Positive Behavior Support grant from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Dr
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Professor of Mathematics | Department of Mathematics | sklarjk@plu.edu | 253-535-8341 | Jessica received her Ph.D.
! (& Mathematics), Seattle, WA (March 8, 2018) Willamette Valley REU-RET Consortium for Math Research (invited), Illuminating Confused Electrician Problems, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (July 8, 2014) 2012 Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (invited), Cabbages and Kings: Mathematics and the Humanities, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (With Elizabeth S. Sklar.) Presented by Amy Kaufman, Middle Tennessee State University. (A medical emergency kept my co-speaker and I from attending the conference.) July
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Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation | Recreational Sports | thompsrw@plu.edu | 253-535-7495 | Robert Thompson arrived at Pacific Lutheran University in August of 2013 as the Coordinator of Recreation and was elevated to Assistant Athletic Director for Recreation prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. Under Thompson’s leadership, student participation in intramural programming has increased by 40 percent through innovative marketing to students and partnerships with several departments on campus.
departments at Brown University, Adams State University, and Endicott College. He additionally has corporate experience at the Nike World Headquarters working in their golf and SPARQ divisions in customer relations and events. With a passion for student development, Thompson has used his Nike experience to creatively market and unite the campus community through recreational programming and events. Thompson earned a bachelor of science degree in sports management from Endicott College in 2007 and was a
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Founding Director, In Memoriam | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Judith Kitchen (1941-2014) was the co-founder of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at PLU. She is the author of four collections of essays, most recently The Circus Train (Ovenbird Books, 2014).
, winner of the S. Mariella Gable Prize from Graywolf Press, as well as a critical study of William Stafford, Writing the World (Oregon State University Press). She edited (with Ted Kooser, former U. S. Poet Laureate) an anthology of bird poems: The Poets Guide to the Birds (Anhinga Press). In addition, she edited three collections of short nonfiction: In Short; In Brief; and Short Takes (all W. W. Norton). A fourth anthology—Brief Encounter, co-edited with Dinah Lenney—is forthcoming from W. W
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Chair of Earth Science | Earth Science | lechlear@plu.edu | 253-535-7744 | My research centers on mountain building processes and regional climate change and the associated influences of each on atmospheric dynamics.
, Vancouver, BC (2014) 2014 Goldschmidt Conference, Clumped isotope paleothermometry in soil carbonate, Sacramento, CA (2014) 2013 Fall Meeting, AGU, Paleoclimate of the last glacial maximum revealed by fossil groundwaters, San Francisco, CA (2013) 2012 Fall Meeting, AGU, Improving stable isotope-based reconstructions of Sierra Nevada paleotopography using insights from regional air parcel trajectories, San Francisco, CA (2012) Selected Articles Lechler, A. R., Niemi, N. A., Hren, M. T., and Lohmann, K. C
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Lecturer | Music | camposla@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | LeeAnne Campos began her music career at the age of seven in Munich, Germany, playing the role of a Siamese boy in a professional production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I. A past regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions and the San Francisco Merola Opera Program Auditions, her repertoire includes many roles.
LeeAnne Campos Lecturer Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: camposla@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Professional Biography Education B.M., Vocal Performance, Pacific Lutheran University, 1981 Responsibilities Applied Voice Lessons Biography LeeAnne Campos began her music career at the age of seven in Munich, Germany, playing the role of a Siamese boy in a professional production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I. A past regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera
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