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of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs saw a stream of Trinidad and Tobago students come to Washington state for four years of study at the university. There, they formed relationships with their American counterparts that remain strong today — several traveled to reconnect with the visiting alumni group during their stay on the islands. “The joy of my life,” Kareen ’09 Ottley said of her studies in the States. “We made many memories throughout my period there with PLU.” (Photo by

address a wide range of individual, family, group, community and organizational needs. Students enhance their commitment to informed action to remove inequities based on race, ethnicity, culture, gender, immigration status, social class, sexual orientation, disability and age. Admission to the Social Work Program Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in social work must first apply and be accepted into the program. The social work program welcomes diversity and invites interest and applications

initiatives, faculty affairs, and advancing the academic mission and intellectual positioning of PLU. Gregson joined the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at PLU in 1998. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology from Western Washington University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2012. As a faculty member, Gregson has taught and conducted research in the areas of deviance, gender, and qualitative research

currently a second-year Ph.D. Student in the Department of History at the University of Southern California. Michael’s work focuses on American history, gender and sexuality, modern visual culture, and the history of empire and colonization. Speaking to the importance of his time at PLU, he first encountered his major field of interest in Beth Kraig’s seminar, “History of Women in the United States.” In 2018, Michael completed a B.A. in History as well as minors in women’s and gender studies and English

, we read these works because we think they offer perspectives that you can’t find anywhere else on enduring questions of human existence. IHON 111: Origins, Ideas, and EncountersIHON 111 explores how issues such as the order of the universe, political authority, justice and dissent, gender relations, and the human relation to nature manifested themselves in texts emerging from different peoples and regimes from the pre-modern world (ancient Egypt, Sumer, Greek city-states, the pre-Columbian Maya

Biopiracy, Stolen Harvest and Water Wars, Dr. Shiva has made visible the social, economic and ecological costs of corporate-led globalization. Dr. Shiva’s contributions to gender issues are also nationally and internationally recognized. Her book Staying Alive dramatically shifts popular perceptions of Third World women. She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in Kathmandu, and was a founding Board Member of the Women Environment and Development

volunteer for the Interfaith Food Pantry of the Oranges, a career advisor for Brown University and has been a featured speaker at various charitable events. Allan served as an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project.Elizabeth Heineman Elizabeth Heineman is professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. There she teaches courses on European and German history, gender and sexuality, and the history of

volunteer for the Interfaith Food Pantry of the Oranges, a career advisor for Brown University and has been a featured speaker at various charitable events. Allan served as an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project.Elizabeth Heineman Elizabeth Heineman is professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. There she teaches courses on European and German history, gender and sexuality, and the history of

volunteer for the Interfaith Food Pantry of the Oranges, a career advisor for Brown University and has been a featured speaker at various charitable events. Allan served as an interviewer for the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Project.Elizabeth Heineman Elizabeth Heineman is professor in the Department of History and the Department of Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. There she teaches courses on European and German history, gender and sexuality, and the history of