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Mike Schleeter Associate Professor of Philosophy Phone: 253-535-7218 Email: schleemt@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 222-F Status:On Sabbatical Professional Biography Personal Education Ph.D., Philosophy, Penn State University, 2010 B.A., Philosophy, Comparative Literature, Biology, University of Minnesota, 1999 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Political Philosophy Political Economy German Idealism Phenomenology Accolades Karen Hille Phillips Regency Advancement Award

Arthur C. T. Strum Interim Director, IHON Phone: 253-535-8774 Email: strumac@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles IHON-Oxford Interim Program Director Resident Assistant Professor of Multi-Disciplinary Programs Education Ph.D., German Studies, Cornell University, 1997 M.A., Cornell University, 1991 B.A., Stanford University, 1988 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Humanities Education German Idealist philosophy and Romanticism German philosophy and literature of the Enlightenment

interests beyond these areas.   As a scholar, I specialize in 18th and 19th century German philosophy, with a particular focus on the writings of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and, more specifically, his “theoretical” philosophy (i.e. his metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind). Most of my publications are in this area, and I continue to conduct research in it.

Keith Cooper Associate Professor of Philosophy Phone: 253-535-7234 Email: cooper@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 206-B Status:Phased Retirement Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Member: Title IX Working Group Faculty Athletics Representative Education Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1988 M.A, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981 M.T.S., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 1979 B.A., Gordon College, 1976 Accolades Faculty Excellence Award

Adam Arnold Resident Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-8445 Email: arnoldar@plu.edu Office Location

John Wright Assistant Professor of Education Email: jwright@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Special Education, Vanderbilt University, 2019 M.B.A., University of Illinois-Chicago, 1999 M.A., Modern Languages, University of Arizona, 1997 B.S., Math, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1995 B.A., German, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, 1995 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Inclusive Instructional Practices for students with disabilities Autism Spectrum Disorder Early

Heather Mathews Chair & Associate Professor of Art History Phone: 253-535-7574 Email: hmathews@plu.edu Office Location: Ingram Hall - 110 Website: https://tinyurl.com/mu26jt7z Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Chair of Communication, Media & Design Arts, Associate Professor of Art History University Gallery Coordinator Education Ph.D., Art History, University of Texas, Austin, 2006 M.A., University of Texas, Austin, 1997 B.A., Art History and German, Hood College, Frederick, MD

Paul Menzel Philosophy Department Email: menzelpt@plu.edu Biography Biography Taught philosophy at Pacific Lutheran University from 1971 to 2012, having been educated at Wooster, Yale, and Vanderbilt.  Teaching widely in philosophy and cross-disciplinary curricula, he has also published specialized scholarly work in health care ethics, including two books on moral questions in health care economics, numerous articles on health system structure and health care reform, and a recently co-edited

Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust co-edited with Susannah Heschel (Augsburg Fortress Publishers 1999) : View Book Theologians Under Hitler (Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus and Emanuel Hirsch) (Yale University Press 1985) : View Book Biography Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies Emeritus and Professor of History at PLU, earned his Ph.D. in history at the London School of Economics.  He is the author or editor of five books and more than forty articles or book chapters. All of

2017) : View Book Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts, co-edited with Christina Guenther (Cambridge Scholars Press 2008) : View Book The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and its Policy Consequences Today, editor (NOMOS Verlag 2008) : View Book Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism (Yale University Press 2002) : View Book Accolades Dr. Griech-Polelle's most recent award was being selected to participate in the Alan S