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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.
Global Context Pedagogy, especially First-year programs Latin America, specifically Mexico, Cuba, and the Andean region Bolivia and Peru (study abroad) Global Human Rights Global Women’s & Gender History Books In progress, You Are What You Drink: A Global History of How Alcohol Has Shaped Identity (Reaktion Press, London 2018) Alcohol in World History (Routledge 2012) : View Book Biography Gina Hames’ research interests focus on the historic role of how alcohol shapes identity from a comparative
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The list below reflects common internship evaluation methods to connect course content to internship experiences and inspire vocational discernment.
Write a research paper with an annotated bibliography – Situate the internship experience within academic literature. Create a reflection portfolio, which includes: Goals at the beginning of the internship One journal entry per week for the duration of the internship An annotated bibliography to inspire research and critical thinking Goals at the end of the internship A closing reflection of the experience, where students can compare(what they thought the internship would be vs. what it actually was
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Thanks for your interest in the Chorale and our 2017 spring tour. This website contains information about the choir and conductor Brian Galante, as well as print media designed to help spread the
Chamber Singers. He teaches undergraduate courses in Vocal Pedagogy for the Choral Music Educator, Choral Methods, and Choral Literature. Dr. Galante received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Choral Conducting, with a related field in Voice Science and Pedagogy, from the University of North Texas. He holds Master of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from Louisiana State University.Learn MorePHOTOS
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The Natural Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Program involves PLU faculty mentors with basic science research reflecting the natural sciences fields of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science,
, mentors engage with and guide their selected PLU student researchers. The student researchers study research ethics, read peer-reviewed research literature, formulate research questions, carry out specific research procedures, record results, analyze data, write research reports, and present their findings through oral and poster forms. Mentors may include their student researchers as co-authors for papers presented at professional meetings or published in peer-reviewed journals. The student
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The faculty members involved in the orchestra program recognize both the unique place of the orchestra in western music and its unique role in a comprehensive university music program.
the institution A cultural resource in the larger community of which we are a part A participant in the critical dialog that characterizes a liberal arts institution A significant performance outlet, sponsor and promoter for new and under-performed orchestral literature We share with other large ensembles the method of making music as a community of artists and students. Equal in importance to the production of our musical performance is the process of cooperation in pursuit of a common
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On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University…
United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney. Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for Excellence, and it
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On October 9, 2019, the PLU community will welcome Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the…
of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney. Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for
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Dr. Youtz has been part of the Trinidad Gateway Program since its beginning in 1993 and he began taking students to Trinidad and Tobago in 1999. This jewel of a country in the Southern Caribbean has a rich diversity of the world’s peoples and a…
delicious! The students in the Trinidad program always read a novel by Earl Lovelace, one of Trinidad’s two most famous authors (the other is V.S. Naipaul). Lovelace wrote The Dragon Can’t Dance in 1979 which has remained one of the most loved and read novels in Trinidad’s history. It is an amazing read in part because Lovelace has a unique style and cadence (which earned him the Commonwealth Prize for Literature in the 1990s for another novel, Salt). Dr. Youtz said, “It has never been more important
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By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 5, 2014) —Pacific Lutheran University alumna Leslye Walton has been nominated for the prestigious William C. Morris YA Debut Award for her novel The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender . First awarded in…
a first-time author writing for teens and celebrates impressive new voices in young adult literature.” Walton, who graduated from PLU in 2004 with a B.A. in Education, says the nomination means the world to her. “I think one of the things I’ve ever wanted in life was to publish a novel that has one of those delicious medallions on the cover,” she explains. “It’s the dream!” “Being nominated for the Morris Award is a bit like being nominated for an Oscar in our world—it’s absolutely huge!” says
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Close to 50,000 Jewish refugees fled to Argentina during the rise of Nazism and World War II. In fact, between 1933 and 1945, Argentina received more Jewish refugees per capita than any other nation in the world, except Palestine. But to most – outside of…
the reason that Ellie Dieringer ’23, a global studies and Hispanic and Latino studies double major, decided to pursue research in this area. Throughout her time at PLU, she focused her global lens on Latin America — specifically Argentina and Uruguay. “Part of what drew me to the research I’m doing is the relationships between institutions and the stories they decide to tell,” she explains. During her freshman year at PLU, Dieringer headed to Uruguay for a month-long study abroad trip. While
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