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  • Professor of French | French & Francophone Studies | wilkinrm@plu.edu | Coached by Professor Wilkin in French soccer slang, the French team won the Hong International Hall World Cup. Professor Wilkin teaches in four different programs at PLU: French & Francophone Studies, the International Honors program, the First Year Experience program, and Global Studies.

    , impact, importance: comment ‘mesurer’ la contribution des femmes à l’histoire de la philosophie?” Repenser la philosophie au XVIIe siècle: canons et corpus, edited by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin." Special issue of XVIIe siècle Vol. 296, 2022: 435-450. "Réformez vos contrats!’: From the marriage contract to the social contract in Louise Dupin and Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Women Philosophers in Early Modern France, edited by Derval Conroy. Special issue of Early Modern French Studies Vol. 43, 2021: 88-105

  • Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum | Office of the Provost | rogers@plu.edu | 253-535-7985 | Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home.

    Community-Based and Public Writing Museum and Memorial Rhetorics Biography Scott Rogers was born in the desert and grew up on a farm but will always call the city home. As a kid, his family moved from Arizona to Missouri and then to Southern California where he attended high school. After languishing in a local community college for several years, he got his act together and, in 2001, earned a B.A. in Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles. While earning this degree, Scott worked full

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Department of Philosophy | leland@plu.edu | 253-535-7396 | As a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields.

    a teacher of philosophy, I very much enjoy both 1) introducing new students to this exciting discipline and 2) teaching broadly across its many different subfields. I have taught courses in the following areas: logic, ethics (incl. metaethics and moral psychology), epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, and all periods in the history of Western philosophy. That’s not an exhaustive list (!), and I have many philosophical

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | denneys@plu.edu | I have been a registered nurse since 2009 and have worked in a variety of settings to include: medical surgical nursing, inpatient case management, and school health.

    Sheena Denney MN, RN, CCM Clinical Instructor of Nursing Email: denneys@plu.edu Professional Biography Education MN, Nursing, Population Health and Leadership, Washington State University BSN, Nursing, Washington State University Biography I have been a registered nurse since 2009 and have worked in a variety of settings to include: medical surgical nursing, inpatient case management, and school health. I have also had the opportunity to assist in community research, which has fueled my

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  • Clinical Instructor of Nursing | School of Nursing | lbyer@plu.edu | Originally from Michigan, but have lived on the east/west coasts of the US.

    national level. Most recent experience was managing a care transition and readmission reduction program, collaborating with an acute hospital and a hospice/palliative care agency. Received the first “Takes a Village” award from Michigan Department of Community Health for her work on an adolescent screening project with CDC and has presented at numerous national community health conferences. Lynda is married to Tim (46 years) and they have 3 married sons, 3 bonus daughters and 2 grandchildren. They

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  • Fiction, Nonfiction | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Marjorie Sandor is the author of five books of fiction and creative nonfiction, most recently a debut novel, The Secret Music at Tordesillas, which won the 2020 Foreword Indies Gold Medal for Historical Fiction.

    . Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction and nonfiction. Statement: “One day in college, my favorite teacher came to the limit of her patience with me.  I had nearly suffocated a personal essay full of similes and metaphors and the word ‘I.’  She looked at my five drafts, handed them back and said, ‘You can do better than this. Just tell the truth.’  The simple rightness of this struck me like a blow to the head, and still does: it is a model of great teaching.  Of course I still commit, on a daily

  • Associate Professor | Department of Computer Science | caora@plu.edu | 253-535-7409 | My research interest is mainly focused on developing and applying machine learning and data mining techniques to solve biomedical problems, such as human genome data analysis and protein structure predictions.

    , 2008 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Machine learning Data science Bioinformatics Selected Presentations 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Large-Scale Model Quality Assessment for Improving Protein Tertiary Structure Prediction (2015) The 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM, Apply Modified Method of Nonlinear Optimization to Improve Localization Accuracy in WSN, Beijing (2009) Selected

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  • Chair, BSW Program | Department of Social Work | hbrocious@plu.edu | 253-535-8707 | One of the gifts I have gained from growing up near and among the Indigenous people of Southeast Alaska is a strong sense of collectivism over individualism; I feel successful only when my team is successful, and it is this core philosophy that I would bring to both my teaching and leadership if offered a position at Pacific Lutheran University.

    Southeast Alaska is a strong sense of collectivism over individualism; I feel successful only when my team is successful, and it is this core philosophy that I would bring to both my teaching and leadership if offered a position at Pacific Lutheran University. I have always loved to learn, and this passion has guided me as a social work educator over the last 19 years. It is exciting to watch students reach a point of new understanding, to have their worldview shifted, or to observe them understand

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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.

    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. In addition to her book, Alcohol In World History, Routledge, 2012, she has recently published “The Commerce of Alcohol, 1850-1950” in the collection Alcohol in the Age of Industry, Empire, and War, Bloomsbury Press, 2016, and “Rum” in Encyclopedia of the Atlantic World, 1400-1900: Europe, Africa, and the Americas in An Age

  • Associate Professor of Music - Voice | Music | chosy@plu.edu | 253-535-7855 | Acclaimed by Opera News for her “potent” and “intense and incisive” stage presence, and praised by the Cincinnati Post as “regal in bearing, with vocal endowments to match,” lyric mezzo-soprano Soon Cho is an Associate Professor of Voice at Pacific Lutheran University.

    bearing, with vocal endowments to match,” lyric mezzo-soprano Soon Cho is an Associate Professor of Voice at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Cho is a sought-after clinician, conducting master classes at institutions such as San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Ithaca College, Florida State University, and various Schmidt Vocal Competitions annually. Dr. Cho is a member of the summer teaching faculty at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy, and Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival in

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