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  • Resident Instructor of Business | School of Business | pfaffcm@plu.edu | 253-535-7244 | Cosette Pfaff brings 25+ years of business practitioner experience, working on both the revenue generating and operational side of business and has a passion for growing healthy organizations.

    Professor at Pacific Lutheran University teaching Sales & Sales Management and Business Writing; Adjunct Professor at Highline Community College teaching Professional Selling, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Human/Labor Relations, Principles of Management & Supervision and Business Ethics & Sustainability. Cosette holds a Master of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Science in Economics, both from the University of Idaho. In her leisure time, she loves hiking, snowshoeing, kayaking, running

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  • Resident Assistant Professor of Theatre, Costume Designer, Costume Shop Manager | Theatre & Dance | anderskw@plu.edu | 253-535-7326 | Kathleen Anderson has been a member of the design faculty in the PLU Theatre Program since 1998.

    Kathleen Anderson Resident Assistant Professor of Theatre, Costume Designer, Costume Shop Manager she/her Phone: 253-535-7326 Email: anderskw@plu.edu Office Location: Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts - 220 Status:Part-time Professional Biography Education M.F.A., Theatrical Design, Northwestern University, 2004 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Costume Design Biography Kathleen Anderson has been a member of the design faculty in the PLU Theatre Program since 1998. Her favorite

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  • Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | davidsef@plu.edu | 253-535-7311 | If I had to describe my identity with a Facebook relationship status it would read: “It’s complicated”.

    interests encompass a wide range of subjects, from my specialties in Caribbean, Latinx, and Central American Studies, to my passion for teaching Spanish for Heritage Speakers. When I’m not teaching or writing, I enjoy yoga, hiking, cooking with my husband, and playing with our two rambunctious sons.

  • Professor Emeritus | School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Jeffrey Bell-Hanson retired in May 2023, following 21 years as Music Director of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra.

    focused on orchestral music of the mid-eighteenth century. More recently, he has been researching and writing on the formation of vocational commitments for young musicians.

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  • Professor Emeritus | Music | Jeffrey Bell-Hanson retired in May 2023, following 21 years as Music Director of the Pacific Lutheran University Symphony Orchestra.

    focused on orchestral music of the mid-eighteenth century. More recently, he has been researching and writing on the formation of vocational commitments for young musicians.

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  • Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies | Native American and Indigenous Studies | storfjta@plu.edu | 253-535-8514 | Troy Storfjell (Sámi) specializes in Sámi and Indigenous studies, where his work is largely guided by Indigenist criticism and decolonize methodologies.

    : 87-106. Storfjell, Troy. "Dancing with the Stállu of Diversity: A Sámi Perspective." New Dimensions of Diversity in the Nordic Region 2016: 114-130. Storfjell, Troy. "Diversitehta, minoritehta, ja álgoalbmovuohta." Sámis Vol. 19, 2015: 12-15. Storfjell, Troy and Kikki Jernsletten. "Å reke i fjellene. Hamsun fra et (lule)samisk ståsted." Bårjås 2015: 18-30. Storfjell, Troy. "From the Mountaintops to Writing: Traditional Knowledge and Colonial Forms in Turi’s Hybrid Text." Scandinavian Studies: The

  • Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | kayla.harvey@plu.edu | 253.535.7672 | After many years of experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the critical and acute care setting, I have expanded my practice into research in order to better understand and support families during a pediatric hospitalization.  I enjoy sharing my clinical experience and researcher insight as faculty working with nursing students at PLU. Education  PhD: University of Washington, Doctor of Nursing Science Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN): University of California, San Francisco, Pediatric Primary Care/Critical Care Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN): University of Florida, Gainesville, BSN Teaching Areas Lead faculty for NURS 360, Nursing Research course, Baccalaureate program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Lead faculty for NURS 702, Nursing Informatics course, Doctoral program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Pediatric clinical instructor NURS 380, Baccalaureate program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Scholarly Interests  My current research interests include exploring the psychological sequelae of the pediatric medical traumatic stress of a hospitalization on parents and young children and examining the function of the attachment system in the presence of a life-threatening event.  Current Practice Part-time faculty for the BSN and DNP programs at PLU.

    , Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Pediatric clinical instructor NURS 380, Baccalaureate program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Scholarly Interests  My current research interests include exploring the psychological sequelae of the pediatric medical traumatic stress of a hospitalization on parents and young children and examining the function of the attachment system in the presence of a life-threatening event.  Current Practice Part-time faculty for

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  • Lecturer | Music | camposla@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | LeeAnne Campos began her music career at the age of seven in Munich, Germany, playing the role of a Siamese boy in a professional production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I. A past regional finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions and the San Francisco Merola Opera Program Auditions, her repertoire includes many roles.

    Council Auditions and the San Francisco Merola Opera Program Auditions, her repertoire includes many roles. In 1983 she won an apprenticeship with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists and was an active participant in the Chicago opera community. She was a member of both the Chicago Lyric Opera Chorus and the Chicago Symphony Chorus under the direction of Margaret Hillis, and a recipient of the Margaret Hillis Fellowship. In 1992 she made her debut with Tacoma Opera as Pamina in The Magic Flute

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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.

    Heidi Brocious, Ph.D., MSW Chair, BSW Program she/her/hers Phone: 253-535-8707 Email: hbrocious@plu.edu Office Location: Xavier Hall - 104 Office Hours: (On Campus) Tu & Th: 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Social Work, University of Utah, 2013 Masters, Social Work, Walla Walla University, 1999 Bachelors, Education, University of Alaska , 1995 Biography One of the gifts I have gained from growing up near and among the Indigenous people of

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  • Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies | Hispanic and Latino Studies | urdangga@plu.edu | 253-535-7240

    Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Whose Trauma, What Memory? O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias” by Cao Hamburger (2006), Seattle University, Seattle (October 19-21, 2012) Xenographies II: The Representation of Foreigners in Literature, Travel Writing and Other Discourses, sponsored by Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada (SELGYC), the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), and the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research, “¿Hermandad genérica