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  • We are pleased to announce that Anna Marko and Austin Karr have been selected as 2023’s Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars. Anna and Austin will be invited to share their culminating research projects at this Fall’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Congratulations, Anna and Austin! Kurt Mayer Summer ScholarsThe Kurt Mayer Summer Scholars program offers generous financial support for PLU students who complete substantive research projects in Holocaust Studies. Up to 2 fellowships of up

  • 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

  • in Holocaust Studies was created to honor Mayer and to ensure that teaching of the Holocaust would remain an important part of the PLU curriculum. Mayer published his memoir, My Personal Brush with History , in 2009; it was translated into German and published in October 2012. Mayer appeared at PLU’s Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education in 2010 and 2011, was the featured author at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 and has held various other signings, with all proceeds

  • programs”. New York: Routledge.Human Subjects Research after the HolocaustFrancis R. NicosiaPresentation Title: The First Miller Symposium, 2000: “Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany.” Who: Francis R. Nicosia, Professor of History Emeritus, Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus, University of Vermont Bio: Francis R. Nicosia is Professor of History Emeritus and the Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at the University of Vermont. He is

  • place to begin to live again, to build new relationships, to heal the wounds of the past. Yet the struggle to survive and provide for their families still persists. Screening & Ice Cream What: Film screening of Sweet Dreams, followed by Q&A with director Lisa Fruchtman and an ice-cream social. When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28. Where: Anderson University Center Regency Room, PLU campus. Sponsors: The Kurt Mayer Endowment for Holocaust Studies, PLU Holocaust and Genocide Studies, PLU School of Arts

  • January 1, 2013 Guilt and Innocence – What does it Mean to be Alive? By Julia Walsh ’14 “Do you enjoy your work?”  It’s an innocuous, innocent question. Would that it had an innocuous, innocent answer. I came to apply for the Kurt Mayer Summer Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in April of 2012 after winning second place in the Raphael Lemkin essay contest in March of the same year for my paper “Letters Written in Blood: the Holocaust in Poetry”. The fellowship application was for the

  • Resources for Graduate StudiesIf you are thinking about completing a graduate degree or looking to c

  • 2020 Environmental Studies Capstones Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 Welcome! We, Rose McKenney and Adela Ramos, are excited to share with you the work of the 2020 class of Environmental Studies students. It has been our distinct pleasure to teach and guide this cohort of smart and passionate students whose work, as you will see, addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time. We hope you will join us in congratulating them for completing meaningful Capstone projects and for concluding their

  • 2021 Environmental Studies CapstonesProfessors Claire Todd (Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and Sergia Hay (Philosophy) had the honor of working with this year’s class of Environmental Studies students as they completed their interdisciplinary and culminating projects for their major. This capstone cohort tackled a wide range of current environmental issues and employed the methods and tools of multiple disciplines including biology, literature, chemistry, philosophy, art, political

  • 2022 Environmental Studies CapstonesProfessors Rose McKenney (Geosciences and Environmental Studies) and Adela Ramos (English) had the honor of working with this year’s class of Environmental Studies students as they completed their interdisciplinary and culminating projects for their major. This capstone cohort tackled a wide range of current environmental issues and employed the methods and tools of multiple disciplines including biology, chemistry, cultural studies, dentistry, geosciences