Page 452 • (12,552 results in 0.459 seconds)

  • intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades

  • intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades

  • intricate patterns. All of the masks have small holes around the base of the helmet, which is where the black raffia skirts were previously attached. – Carli Snyder ’17, History, Women’s and Gender Studies Sources: Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance From the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. London: Yale University Press, 1986. McClusky, Pam. “Long Steps Never Broke a Back,” In Art From Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Phillips, Ruth B. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades

  • William Carlos Williams pointed out, a poem is a machine made out of words. In the classroom, then, the poem can be discussed the way machines are discussed, with reference to the technical features that make the machine what it is. To speak of poems in this way, however, requires a scholar’s commitment to studying the genre’s history, its masters, as well as its formal and thematic dynamics. In my poetry-writing courses, it turns out that reading and studying poetry end up taking more time than the

  • questioning, the preparation of citizens in service to the world, and its own ongoing reform. They express and support what rightly rests at the center of personal and national life: a vibrant intellectual tradition committed to asking significant questions.   1. Critical questioning of current knowledge and values Early in his academic career, Martin Luther gained a reputation for questioning the economic, educational, political, religious, and social norms which many of his peers took for granted. Such

  • Troy Storfjell Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies Phone: 253-535-8514 Email: storfjta@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227-F Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Scandinavian Studies (Literature), University of Wisconsin, 2001 M.A., Scandinavian Studies (Literature), University of Wisconsin, 1995 Grunnfag, Nordic Studies, University of Tromsø (Norway), 1994 B.A., History & German, Andrews University, 1989 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Sámi studies

  • social issues of the new millennium. PLU has been a lively center for the study of Lutheran higher education and the Lutheran intellectual tradition since its beginnings in 1890. Distinguished lecturers, undergraduate courses in history, music, scripture, theology, and the visual arts, study away classes in Germany, Namibia, and Norway, campus ministry workshops, faith and reason dialogues, faculty publications and public presentations, musical performances, seminars on vocation, summer theological

  • Chancellor’s Professor of the History of Christian Art at Vanderbilt University will give the keynote address, “The Victory of the Cross in Early Christian Art: Transforming the Iconography of Conquest.” Her talk on Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Scandinavian Cultural Center is the inaugural Alice Kjesbu Torvend Lecture in Christian Art. “She’s the primary North American expert of early Christianity,” Torvend said. “She has done groundbreaking work in terms of how Christian images have served as challenges to

  • Financial Aid & ScholarshipsThe Doctor of Nursing Practice program offers various scholarship and financial aid awards for students. Please select from which type you’d like to view. You may also look into federal, military aid, or external scholarships to support your graduate studies.Build Your Career ScholarshipThe Build Your Career Scholarship promotes access to graduate education as a key step toward helping students achieve their personal and professional goals. Amount: $9,000 Eligibility

  • to the stories elevated in museum spaces. By drawing on space-place theory, literature on identity work in museum spaces, and personal experience interning at the Northwest African American Museum, I explore the reciprocal relationship between the physical context of a museum and the stories it houses. Reflecting the shift from narratives of normative colonialism to those of postcolonial structures, the physical construction of museum entryways aid how narratives are confirmed and refined within