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PLU Department of History You might notice that Dr. Rebekah Mergenthal is not listed as an instructor on the History Department’s teaching schedule during the 2021-2022 school year. Although she is eager to get back into the classroom after so many ‘Zoom sessions,’ we’ll have…
. I’m especially interested in the proximate experiences of two immigrant groups in our area, the Chinese and the Norwegians. As the Norwegian immigrants were looking to found a college to educate their children (that became PLU), Chinese immigrants were expelled from Tacoma and dispossessed of their flourishing businesses in the area. By putting PLU’s history in the broader community context, I want to help us think about how connections and exclusions have been developed and continue to shape our
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Fr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College will speak about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and
“Righteous Among the Nations,” by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, for their role in saving Jews from the Nazis at considerable risks to themselves. Paldiel is currently teaching, in New York: at Yeshiva University-Stern College, New York – courses in Holocaust & Rescue, and History of Zionism; as well as Touro college, in Modern European History. He also taught at Drew University, in Madison, New Jersey, and Richard Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey. Dr. Paldiel has published numerous books and
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The Molecules Meet Materials (M3) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of South Dakota, located in Vermillion, SD, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2022-2024. In this program, funded by the National Science Foundation Division…
such as plant cells, cancer cells, or bacterial cells in biofilms. To increase diversity in the STEM pipeline, this site will recruit underrepresented students from Tribal Colleges and Primarily Undergraduate Institutions. Preference will be given to applications received by March 1st. We strongly encourage undergraduate students at Pacific Lutheran University interested to visit https://usdchemistry.com/reu/ to apply or read more about the research opportunities in this REU. We will host an
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The PLU Pantry exists as a resource to serve students, staff, and faculty who are experiencing food insecurity in any way.
: campussafety@plu.edu. Procedures outlining use, physical distancing and other COVID-19 protocols are posted on the Pantry door. Please govern yourself accordingly. Donations & SupportThe PLU Pantry is primarily stocked through a partnership with Northwest Harvest. We also accept donations at the Campus Ministry Office from community friends of canned meats, vegetables, fruits, and dry goods that are six months or more from expiration. In addition, your monetary donation of any amount is most
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One way that PLU's Publishing & Printing Arts (PPA) program helps students translate their love of books into a life of books is by building enduring connections with the professional publishing
ResourcesChicago Manual of Style Modern Language Association (MLA) AP Stylebook Oxford English Dictionary Elements of StyleGetting PublishedSelfpublishing.com Tools & Resources Writer’s Digest Published.comBook ArtsBook Arts Web Center for Book Arts Independent Publishing Resource Center Tacoma Wayzgoose Letterology (Jennifer Kennard) Kyoko Imazu The Third & the Seventh (Alex Roman) Presstidigitation Springtide PressPublishing Studies ProgramsAmerican Printing History Association Mark Samuel Lasner Fellowship
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Associate Professor in Art History | 2015 Lutheran Studies Conference | Mathews will present The Past is Present: Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary German Art. In Germany, art plays a major role in the public narrative of the Holocaust.
individual and symbolic levels, addressing private losses as well as the enormous scope of National Socialist violence as a whole. As they give testimony to the past, might these artworks also offer opportunities for healing in the present? Dr. Mathews received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, writing on the role of the artist in public discourse in East and West Germany in the 1950s. In addition to writing and teaching on topics such as identity and memory in modern and
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1973, a 17-year-old Gregory Youtz departed from Sea-Tac International Airport and landed in France. Meritoriously skipping the third grade, the young composer had afforded himself the luxury of a year in limbo – graduating high school a year early and giving himself time to explore…
terribly important they consider themselves a part of a community and that they serve that community. I think art should serve a purpose and that should be a purpose that people can understand.” Youtz, who fittingly teaches a class called On Creativity, involves himself, additionally, in a wide variety of community engagements, including but not limited, to assistant teaching at the Tacoma Youth Symphony, and membership on a board for the building of a Chinese park on the Tacoma water front. “I’m all
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Jakob Maier entered PLU as a first year in 2011 having been accepted into the academically rigorous International Honor’s program (IHON).
, Jakob was even able to access the world-famous Bodleian Library. Jakob had access to educational opportunities at Oxford that he wouldn’t have anywhere else, including classes led by organizations such as the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, as well as university lectures given by esteemed academic leaders. He even had the opportunity to take a one-on-one course with an Oxford professor focused on Modernist poetry, which Jakob describes as “one of my favorite classes of all time
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PLU announces new president A highly regarded university administrator, professor of English and retired Air Force officer has been named president of Pacific Lutheran University. The Board of Regents met Feb. 29 to receive the unanimous recommendation of the presidential search committee and elected Thomas…
, early American, and 17th- and 18th-century British literature. He has served as General Editor of the McNair Papers monograph series and Managing Editor of War, Literature, and the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He has published numerous articles and other works, including Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 (University of Chicago Press). Krise will arrive at PLU in June to assume the presidency. He succeeds Loren J. Anderson who will leave
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See Dr. Artime's profile Michael Artime is Assistant Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in Political Science.
semester, PLU faculty will explore the pandemic phenomenon through the lens of diverse disciplinary fields. These include: Biology, Global Studies, History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Literature and the Arts. The course also includes a panel of PLU alumni in the health and care professions that have been invited to reflect on their experience of the crisis from the vantage point as practitioners. The
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