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Assistant Director of Lifelong Learning & Events | Alumni & Student Connections | engle@plu.edu | 253-535-7417 | Kathy graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in interior design and worked for an architectural firm in Seattle for nearly 20 years, taking a couple of years off to work with a private developer in Manhattan.
Kathy Engle Assistant Director of Lifelong Learning & Events She/Her Phone: 253-535-7417 Email: engle@plu.edu Office Location:Nesvig Alumni Center Status:Working Hybrid Employed: 10 Years Professional Biography Personal Education B.A., Interior Design, Western Washington University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Alumni Relations Event Planning Lifelong Learning Alumni Travel Responsibilities Kathy is responsible for creating, marketing, and executing meaningful events and opportunities for
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Associate Professor of History | Department of History | hamesgl@plu.edu | 253-535-7132 | Gina Hames’ research interests focus on the historic role of how alcohol shapes identity from a comparative perspective across the globe, including Africa, Asia, including China, Japan, and India, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States.
perspective across the globe, including Africa, Asia, including China, Japan, and India, Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the United States. In addition to her book, Alcohol In World History, Routledge, 2012, she has recently published “The Commerce of Alcohol, 1850-1950” in the collection Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War, Bloomsbury Press, 2016, and “Rum” in Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in An Age
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On view at the University Gallery at Pacific Lutheran University are the works of two local artists in an exhibition titled Physicality of the Present. Mixed media ceramics and prints showcase vulnerabilities as a result of physical and emotional constraints. The show opens Wednesday, October…
McCuistion, professor and chair of the Department of art at the University of Puget Sound, shows mixed media ceramics that reference the effects and consequences of war. “The artwork I make is about history, myth, storytelling, religion, relationships, ceremony, civilization and humor. I am interested in the language of gesture, expression, texture, form and color,” McCuistion writes. The sculptures featured are part of his “G.I. Series”, which were inspired by what he felt was disingenuous information
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Symposium 2012 Suggested Readings Maude Barlow, Blue Covenant (The New Press, 2007) (Available at the PLU Bookstore for purchase) Maude Barlow has for decades been a leading voice arguing that access
point of view within North America and parallel situations in the European and Asian Arctic.” Steven Solomon, The Epic Struggle for Water, Power and Civilization (Harper, 2010) Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society’s vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century’s decisive, looming
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Jeffery (“Jeff”) Wright has been a professional humanitarian since the early 1990s. Since that time he has been involved as a front-line practitioner in many of the high-profile emergency and
Jeffery WrightJeffery (“Jeff”) Wright has been a professional humanitarian since the early 1990s. Since that time he has been involved as a front-line practitioner in many of the high-profile emergency and humanitarian responses that most Western audiences would have heard of (and perhaps a few that Western audiences would not have heard of). Apart from a brief detour as Country Director for an INGO development portfolio, his career has been entirely focused on humanitarian and emergency
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Director for Campus Life Engagement | Division of Student Life | alexis.austin@plu.edu | 253-535-7068 | Alexis began at PLU in Spring of 2022.
Alexis Austin Director for Campus Life Engagement she/her Phone: 253-535-7068 Email: alexis.austin@plu.edu Office Location: Anderson University Center - 155 Professional Biography Education Master of Science, College Student Personnel, Western Illinois University Bachelor in Arts, English with an Emphasis on Creative Writing, Western Washington University Associate in Arts, Centralia College Biography Alexis began at PLU in Spring of 2022. Prior to PLU, Alexis most recently worked at the
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Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. Her keynote address will open the symposium Thursday, Feb.
Water (New Press, 2007). Barlow’s participation in the 2012 symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peace and Reconciliation Section.Terje Tvedt - Water scholar, advocate, filmmakerProfessor Terje Tvedt will deliver a keynote address entitled “Water and the Development of Human Civilization: Some Perspectives,” at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Tvedt is a professor at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Bergen and a Professor II at
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Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch. Her keynote address will open the symposium Thursday, Feb.
Water (New Press, 2007). Barlow’s participation in the 2012 symposium is made possible by a generous grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Peace and Reconciliation Section.Terje Tvedt - Water scholar, advocate, filmmakerProfessor Terje Tvedt will deliver a keynote address entitled “Water and the Development of Human Civilization: Some Perspectives,” at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 24. Tvedt is a professor at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Bergen and a Professor II at
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Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…
Renaissance recovery of ancient languages, Luther translated the German Bible (1534), which shaped most profoundly German language and culture, and also global civilization through the Reformation. Just so, the brilliant translating work of Luther’s contemporary William Tyndale led to one of the most beautiful books in English, the King James Bible. But Francesco Petrarca, Lorenzo Valla, and a host of others in various humanistic disciplines equally played their parts in Renaissance culture. The
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University Title IX Coordinator | Title IX | childrjl@plu.edu | (253) 535-7361 | Jennifer Childress-White came to PLU in April 2013 as the head women’s basketball coach and transitioned to Assistant Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator in the spring of 2020.
2023, Jennifer accepted the position of Assistant Dean of Students and continues to serve as Title IX Coordinator. Childress-White served as Western Washington University’s associate head coach from 2006 through 2013. As that program’s recruiting coordinator, she helped bring in the players that ended up making a deep run into the 2013 Division II national tournament. Western Washington lost in the national semifinals to eventual national champion Ashland (Ohio), and WWU finished its most recent
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