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  • Empire of Cotton news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Deliver Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community will welcome Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the… July 31, 2019 Benson LectureCapitalismDale E. BensonEmpire of CottonSven Beckert

  • Empire of Cotton news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University… July 31, 2019 Benson LectureEmpire of Cottoninnovation studiesSven Beckert

  • This exhibit opened in the Scandinavian Cultural Center on January 13, 2016 and explored a multitude of identities and national narratives in the Nordic region through time and provides a nuanced

    Forgotten Nordics: Ethnic Diversity and National Narratives This exhibit opened in the Scandinavian Cultural Center on January 13, 2016 and explored a multitude of identities and national narratives in the Nordic region through time and provides a nuanced historic perspective of what it means to be Nordic. Starting with the Viking Age and Viking identities,  a large array of potential local, ethnic, and diverse identities began to be forgotten in favor of national and supra-national identities

  • Date: February 27, 2017 Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Place: Anderson University Center (Regency Room)

    The Department of Kinesiology presentsLegacy Makers: Historical Narratives on Gender and SportThe rise of women like Becky Hammon (NBA),Kim Ng (MLB), and Christine Driesen (ESPN) in sport today paints an optimistic picture of women in leadership. However, only 15% of CEOs, 20% of U.S. senators, 26% of U.S. college presidents, and 22% of athletic directors are women. This panel will explore the lived experiences of two women who have reached top leadership positions in sport. Their stories speak

  • After millenniums of sex and centuries of poetry, the love poem as understood by Shakespeare and Donne, and by Oxford undergraduates – the true-life confessions of the poet in love, immortalizing

    .”  A student of History may focus on the “continuity in human society over time” by “evaluating evidence, organizing information, clarifying and structuring concepts, and writing narratives and expositions,” or a student of Physics may study the material universe in a specific time and place (say, atoms, black holes, or super-conductors). Classics, however, rather than covering a single discipline at a single time and place covers all human activity in the Mediterranean world from the Bronze Age

  • Art Empire ‹ Resolute Online: Winter 2016 Home Features What Was/Is It Like To Be… The Call Design School Open to Interpretation Attaway Lutes Welcome Note Setting The Course On Campus Discovery Research Grants Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Homecoming 2016 Connection Events Lute Recruit Alumni Profiles Class Notes Family and Friends Mike Benson Submit a Class Note Calendar Highlights Home Features What Was/Is It Like To Be… The Call Design School Open to Interpretation Attaway Lutes

  • FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Ann Kullberg ’79 has never taken a formal art course, but her work is internationally known—and her story is as colorful as her art. Though the lines were not always straight, and there were rough patches along the way, Kullberg…

    Ann Kullberg ’79 Draws on Her PLU Education to Create an Art Empire Posted by: Sandy Dunham / August 10, 2015 Image: Ann Kullberg’s painting ‘Broken Rules.’ (Courtesy Ann Kullberg.) August 10, 2015 By Nanci SmithPLU News Contributor FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (Aug. 6, 2015)—Ann Kullberg ’79 has never taken a formal art course, but her work is internationally known—and her story is as colorful as her art. Though the lines were not always straight, and there were rough patches along the way, Kullberg

  • The PhD Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is currently recruiting students to join our program in Fall 2021. Here are some highlights: Our PhD students take classes at the Graduate Center building diagonally across the Empire…

    PhD Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Posted by: nicolacs / October 22, 2020 October 22, 2020 The PhD Program in Biochemistry at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York is currently recruiting students to join our program in Fall 2021. Here are some highlights: Our PhD students take classes at the Graduate Center building diagonally across the Empire State Building in their first year and then join a research lab at one of the 8

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English | Department of English | apm@plu.edu | 253-535-8277

    Alex McCauley Visiting Assistant Professor of English Phone: 253-535-8277 Email: apm@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-D Professional Education Ph.D., English, University of Washington, 2020 M.A., English, University of Washington, 2015 B.A., English, Seattle Pacific University, 2010 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Environmental and Ecocritical approaches Narratives of Empire British and Global Literatures

  • On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welcomed Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture took place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the Anderson University…

    United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney. Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for Excellence, and it