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  • Benson Chair, Emeritus | Department of History | carpw@plu.edu | E.

    History Families and Children in American History American Society and the Vietnam War American Slavery Colonial America American Revolutionary Era Books Jean Paton and the Struggle to Reform American Adoption (University of Michigan Press 2014) : View Book Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58 (University Press of Kansas 2004) : View Book Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives edited by E. Wayne Carp (University of Michigan Press 2002) : View Book Family Matters: Secrecy

  • 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.

    2016) Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, A Fistful of Stállus: Resisting Neo-Colonialism in the Era of Diversity, Washington, D. C. (June 2015) Selected Articles Storfjell, Troy. "Sannhet og forsoning i en samisk gjenlesning av Markens grøde." Bårjås 2018: 114-118. Jernsletten, Kikki and Troy Storfjell. "Re-Reading Knut Hamsun in Collaboration with Place in Lule Sámi Nordlándda." Arctic Environmental Modernities: From the Age of Polar Exploration to the Era of the Anthropocene 2017

  • Associate Professor of English | Department of English | jamesja@plu.edu | 253-535-7217 | Jenny James was born and raised in Michigan, the home of the Great Lakes and the Michigan Wolverines.

    Jennifer James Associate Professor of English Phone: 253-535-7217 Email: jamesja@plu.edu Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 201-C Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Chair, Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies Director, Native American & Indigenous Studies Education Ph.D., English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 2012 M.A., Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, 2004 B.A., Comparative Literature, Smith College, 2001 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Post

  • Director of IHON | Interdisciplinary Programs | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.

    Fear: Response to Papers on White Christian Denominations & the 1920s KKK, New Orleans (January 2022) American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Women and the New Christian Right: A Response to Emily Suzanne Johnson’s This is Our Message, San Diego (November 2019) American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Feminism and Evangelical Family Men, Denver (November 2018) American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, Teaching American Religious History in the Trump Era, Washington (January 2018

  • Associate Professor of Early and Medieval Christian History | Religion | bll@plu.edu | 253-535-7237 | Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

    Autonomy at the End of the Antique World (Ashgate 2014) : View Book They Who Give From Evil”: the Response of the Eastern Church to Money-lending in the Early Christian Era (Wipf & Stock 2012) : View Book Biography Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen teaches courses in the history of early and medieval Christianity, and specific topics in historical theology and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. She also teaches in the International Honors program. Her research is focused primarily on social ethics found in Greek

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  • Visiting Lecturer of Southern Lushootseed | Native American and Indigenous Studies | nancy.bob@plu.edu

    Nancy Jo Bob Visiting Lecturer of Southern Lushootseed Email: nancy.bob@plu.edu

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  • Associate Professor of Art and Design | Holocaust and Genocide Studies Programs | hmathews@plu.edu | 253-535-7574 | Heather joined the Department of Art and Design in 2007.

    on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. In addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is Coordinator of the University Gallery (including the University Gallery Annex and the Karen Hille Phillips Gallery) and manages the University’s Permanent Art Collection. Students may request a meeting

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  • Chair & Associate Professor of Art History | Communication, Media & Design Arts | hmathews@plu.edu | 253-535-7574 | Heather joined the Department of Art and Design in 2007.

    discourse in East and West Germany, as well as on the exhibition of contemporary art as a cultural and political force in the Cold War era and today. Her most recent work deals with contemporary art and cultural integration. In addition to teaching on topics such as gender issues, identity, and memory in modern and contemporary art, Heather is Coordinator of the University Gallery (including the University Gallery Annex and the Karen Hille Phillips Gallery) and manages the University’s Permanent Art

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  • Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.

    Rigoberto González Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Biography Biography Rigoberto González is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Unpeopled Eden, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and eleven books of prose, including Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, which received the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.  The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA and USA Rolón fellowships, a NYFA grant in

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music | Music | twalker@plu.edu | 253-535-7613 | Tiffany Walker is a Filipino-American conductor serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Music at PLU.

    Tiffany Walker Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Phone: 253-535-7613 Email: twalker@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 202B Professional Biography Education D.M.A, Choral Conducting, University of Washington M.A, Teaching, University of Southern California B.A., Music, University of California, Berkeley Responsibilities Conductor of Chorale and University Singers, and teaches choral conducting Biography Tiffany Walker is a Filipino-American conductor serving as a

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