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investigator is observing public behavior and not participating in the activities being observed. Not all interviews require HPRB review. For example, if a historian is interviewing a holocaust survivor about her memories and how it impacted her life it is not research because it is not generalizable knowledge and hence not “human subject research.” However, if the researcher is researching several holocaust survivors regarding their experience and how it impacted their subsequent relationships, it would

investigator is observing public behavior and not participating in the activities being observed. Not all interviews require HPRB review. For example, if a historian is interviewing a holocaust survivor about her memories and how it impacted her life it is not research because it is not generalizable knowledge and hence not “human subject research.” However, if the researcher is researching several holocaust survivors regarding their experience and how it impacted their subsequent relationships, it would

essay focuses on the testimonies of Molly Applebaum, a Polish-Canadian Holocaust survivor who kept a diary during the war, and wrote a memoir several decades later. Ellie Dieringer (2023 Wang Center Student-Faculty Research Recipient)Identity and Material Memory: Holocaust Museums in the Southern Cone Faculty Mentor: Giovanna Urdangarain, Hispanic and Latino Studies This project explores the interplay between memory and testimony, witnessing and listening, and migration and identity. The

Diambri (right) presented their Benson summer research projects at the Northern California Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference. History students can follow in their footsteps by applying for a student-faculty research project in Holocaust Studies or Business and Economic History. (Applications due in April for the following summer.) Alex Lund shows off his certificate for the second-place paper on economic history in Montana at the Northern California Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, April 2018

survived the Holocaust to become a fierce advocate for Holocaust education, and for the memory of those who did not survive. Even after his death in 2012, the man whose name informs one of PLU’s most distinguished programs remains an inspiration: for scholars, for students—and, perhaps most recently (and most poignantly), for a J-Term Study Away experience organized by Kirsten Christensen, Associate Professor of German and affiliated faculty in PLU’s new program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at PLU

survived the Holocaust to become a fierce advocate for Holocaust education, and for the memory of those who did not survive. Even after his death in 2012, the man whose name informs one of PLU’s most distinguished programs remains an inspiration: for scholars, for students—and, perhaps most recently (and most poignantly), for a J-Term Study Away experience organized by Kirsten Christensen, Associate Professor of German and affiliated faculty in PLU’s new program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at PLU

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English Literature graduate from Pacific Lutheran University with minors in History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies whose interests are also firmly rooted in the long nineteenth century- especially Austen. She is compelled by the intersections of gender, trauma, and race endemic to these areas of research. She is currently completing a Masters in Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling in Scotland with the intention of pursuing a career in the publishing sector. It is hard for her to

Frequently Asked QuestionsI never had to study religion in high school. Why am I required to study it here?In a world where most social and political conflicts contain a religious dimension, ignorance is not bliss. Think about it: all these issues are charged with religious language – abortion, creationism vs. evolution, fundamentalism, gay rights, environmental defense and degradation, health care, Holocaust studies, human rights, international terrorism, the Iraq conflict, land use in the

notion of the philosopher as knowing something about knowing which no one else knows so well would be to drop the notion that his voice always has the overriding claim on the attention of other participants in the conversation.” [1] Here at PLU I would say that the picture is somewhat different.  Most of our department members teach in and/or are active in nearly every interdisciplinary program on our campus and are leaders in International Honors, Environmental Studies, and Holocaust and Genocide