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  • Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs | Office of the Provost | byaden@plu.edu | 253-535-7283 | I am a proud native of Tacoma and first generation college student that began my formal second language study in high school.

    Manual, 2013 edition Chapters Leadership and Management: Roles, Styles and Philosophies (IALLT 2013) Selected Articles Yaden et al. "Getting to Advanced: Challenging High School Heritage Language Leaners to Step Outside Their Comfort Zone.." The Language Educator 2018: 37-40. Yaden. "A Report and Review on Web-Based Resources Created at San Diego State University for Learning Spanish : Los Desaparecidos.." Hispania Vol. 92, no.4, 2019: 747-8. Biography I am a proud native of Tacoma and first

  • Director 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”.

    , Pacific Lutheran University, 1998 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Greater Caribbean and Central American Studies Latinx Studies Spanish as a Heritage Language Selected Publications “Espectros y daños colaterales: memorias mediáticas de la Invasión norteamericana de Panamá.” A contracorriente: Revista de Historia Social y Literatura en América Latina (NC State University), Special Edition, The Performance of Archives: Re-imagining Memory and History in Latin America, Vol 12, No 1 Fall 2014: pages 30-53

  • Senior Administrative Assistant | Office of the Provost | abryant@plu.edu | 253-535-7126

    A. Bryant Senior Administrative Assistant Phone: 253-535-7126 Email: abryant@plu.edu Office Location:Hauge Administration Building - Room 103

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  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | torrin a.

    mind, then metaphor is an accelerant and poets are arsonists.” Whether a writer intends this fire to provide warmth or to burn something down, my goal as a teacher and mentor is to provide them with the tools necessary to stoke that flame. Meeting students’ writing on its terms and through the lens of their own individual poetic canons, rather than a monolithic notion of craft, I hope to draw out the best and bravest versions of their work. I encourage writers to court failure in their writing

  • Department Chair and Professor of Economics | Department of Economics | stclaipa@plu.edu | 253-535-7662

    Priscilla A. St. Clair Department Chair and Professor of Economics Phone: 253-535-7662 Email: stclaipa@plu.edu Office Location:Xavier Hall - Room 153 Professional Additional Titles/Roles Professor of Economics Peace Corp Prep Director Director, Joe Smith Global Peacebuilding Award Education Ph.D., University of Washington, 1995 B.A., Wake Forest University, 1988 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Development Economics Environmental Economics Intermediate Microeconomics Community forest management

  • Executive Director, Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies, Program Director PLU Gateway Program in Oaxaca | Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education | williatr@plu.edu | 253-535-7577 | Tamara R.

    Spanish Language at many levels as well as courses focused on Latin American literatures and cultures. She is the author of several articles on Latin American poetry and project coordinator of the bilingual edition of Ernesto Cardenal’s El estrecho dudoso/The Doubtful Strait published by Indiana University Press. Her current research interests focus on masculinities as they relate to the recovery of lyrical subjectivities in contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. She pioneered PLU’s first J-term

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  • Associate Professor of Music - Piano; Advising Associate for Music | Music | powerslm@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | In demand as a solo and collaborative artist as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Dr.

    , Mexico and Canada, including performances at the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music in Almería, Spain, the Simón Bolívar Amphitheater in Mexico City, and the Bibliothèque de Dinan, in Brittany, France. Pursuing a dual career as pianist and harpsichordist, Dr. Powers has performed with ensembles including the Washington Idaho Symphony, the Fort Collins Symphony, the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, Boulder’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble, and the Peabody Chamber Players (under the

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  • University Photographer | Marketing & Communications | bean@plu.edu | 253-535-7517 | As the University Photographer, Sy can be found all over campus documenting the life of Pacific Lutheran University, supporting a number of campus partners through visual storytelling.

    Sy Bean University Photographer he/him Phone: 253-535-7517 Email: bean@plu.edu Professional Biography Education B.A., Environmental Studies with a specialization in Communications, minor in Spanish, Seattle University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Photojournalism Studio Lighting Visual Storytelling Videography FAA Pt. 107 license (drone) Biography As the University Photographer, Sy can be found all over campus documenting the life of Pacific Lutheran University, supporting a number of campus

  • Visiting Assistant Professor | Department of Psychology | jlindsay@plu.edu | 253-535-7640

    the Girls Gone, 2018-2022 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Principal Investigator | Developed coding scheme for examining gender differences in children’s books; guided undergraduates in independent study and as paid research assistants for this project; presented poster at Western Psychological Association Conference 2019 Selected Presentations Society for Research in Child Development, Creating a Gender Neutral Character, Salt Lake City, UT (March 2023) Society for Research in Child Development

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  • Vet Corps Navigator | Military Affiliated Students | kara.atkinson@plu.edu | 253-535-7412 | Kara Atkinson is currently serving her second year as the Vet Corps Navigator at Pacific Lutheran University. Kara medically retired from the United States Army as a Specialist in 2019.

    Foreign Language Center, 2018 Biography Kara Atkinson is currently serving her second year as the Vet Corps Navigator at Pacific Lutheran University. Kara medically retired from the United States Army as a Specialist in 2019. She graduated from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center with her Associate of Arts in Egyptian Arabic in 2018. Kara graduated from PLU with a Bachelor of Arts in History and minors in Religion and Holocaust and Genocide Studies in May 2023. She is currently a

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