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  • Global & Cultural Studies faculty and staff.

    Lise Mba Ekani Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies and Global Studies Full Profile 253-535-8340 lekani@plu.edu

  • From 1965 until his death in 1974, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington reformed both his worldview and his music. With his advancing age, failing health, and the death in of his beloved co-composer Billy Strayhorn, Ellington came to realize the impermanence of life and rekindled the…

    Duke Steps Out’ Read Previous Army, PLU team up for free concert in honor of Music in our Schools Month Read Next New work celebrates the 500th anniversary of the Reformation LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna, receives grant from the City of Tacoma to write and perform genre-bending composition April 18, 2024 PLU Music Announces Inaugural Paul Fritts Endowed Chair in Organ Studies and Performance January 29, 2024 PLU’s Weathermon Jazz Festival to Feature Acclaimed Musician

  • In September of 2019, the SCC opened a new exhibit “Living History and Nordic Identity: Bringing the Past to Life in the Present” based on KD Williams’ capstone project for her BA in

    Bringing the Past to Life in the PresentIn September of 2019, the SCC opened a new exhibit “Living History and Nordic Identity: Bringing the Past to Life in the Present” based on KD Williams’ capstone project for her BA in Scandinavian Area Studies, which Dr. Schroeder supervised. The exhibit encouraged visitors to interact with conceptions of the past and Nordic identities by presenting KD Williams’ fieldwork with Viking Age and medievalist re-enactors. Groups that were featured in particular

  • News articles and blog posts from Pacific Lutheran University.

    Kara Atkinson ’23, transfer history major and former military linguist, on her PLU experience Kara Atkinson ’23 earned an associate degree while serving as an Arabic linguist in the United States Army prior to her arrival at PLU. A history major with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies , Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education… May 5, 2023 HistoryResearchSeekerServiceStudent/Faculty ResearchTrailblazerTransfer

  • The following terms are used to describe academic standing at PLU; separate progression and retention policies may be in place in individual programs; please see the individual program section of the

    : students who have met first-year entrance requirements Sophomore: students who have satisfactorily completed 30 semester hours Junior: students who have satisfactorily completed 60 semester hours Senior: students who have satisfactorily completed 90 semester hours Graduate: students who have met graduate entrance requirements and have been accepted into the Division of Graduate Studies Non-Matriculated Students Note: Students who are not officially admitted to the University may accrue a maximum of

  • Original New York Times article here . My Response to  Bryan College Is Torn: Can Darwin and Eden Coexist? by Alan Binder At Pacific Lutheran University, we think of “Lutheran” as an ethic that informs how we think, how we teach and how we help students…

    religious dimension, ignorance is not bliss. Think about it: all these issues are charged with religious language – abortion, creationism vs. evolution, fundamentalism, LGBTQ rights, environmental defense and degradation, health care, Holocaust studies, human rights, international terrorism, the Iraq conflict, land use in the Northwest, presidential politics, the quest for peace, poverty, and stem-cell research. The value of your college education actually increases when you have a better understanding

  • Knutson Lecture

    , Professor of the History of Christianity torvensa@plu.edu Free and Open to the Public YouTube LivestreamThe 17th annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture, the evening capstone to the 12th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference, will be given by Dr. Marc Dollinger, holder of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies at San Francisco State University. The title of his lecture is, “From Religion to Politics: Antisemitism and Jew Hatred From Ancient Times Until Today.” Dr. Dollinger will speak at 7

  • Associate Professor of Anthropology | Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies | nosakaaa@plu.edu | 253-535-7664 | Dr.

    values and norms in rural Bangladesh. Her study results have been published in the Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2000) and the Journal of International Women’s Studies (2004). She also conducted research on the inter-generational family relationships of Germans and Turkish immigrants living in Germany. Some of the conclusions from this research have been published in the book Grandmotherhood: The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life (2005, Rutgers University Press

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  • This exhibit opened in the Scandinavian Cultural Center on January 13, 2016 and explored a multitude of identities and national narratives in the Nordic region through time and provides a nuanced

    -actives, and interesting history and facts from the Nordic region. This exhibit was made possible through the collaborative efforts of the Director of the Scandinavian Cultural Center Dr. Elisabeth I. Ward, Dr. Troy Storfjell, an Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies, and Linn Chloe Hagstrøm a senior in Global Studies and Anthropology ’15. The exhibit was on view from January 13th through April 7, 2016.

  • Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012.   Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria…

    January 1, 2013 Kurt Mayer: Jan. 14, 1930-Nov. 13, 2012 The Holocaust Studies program at PLU lost its founder and namesake for our esteemed endowed chair on November 13, 2012.   Kurt Mayer, survived by his wife Pam, his daughter Natalie, his son Joe, and Joe’s wife Gloria made this program possible.  Mayer’s long friendship to PLU prompted Mayer and his family to join with Nancy Powell and her family to provide generous gifts which launched the Kurt Mayer Professor in Holocaust Studies in 2007