Special Publications

NINA HANNAStaff Writer Raelyn Nicholson wakes up at 6:30 a.m. After a quick breakfast, she leaves at 7 a.m. and carpools with a fellow student teacher to Lang Ranch Elementary School in Thousand Oaks. She arrives at her third-grade classroom around 7:30-7:45, just in time to scan her lesson plans and confer with her mentor teacher before the school bell rings at 8:25. For the … [Read more...] about Humanities Division: The student teachers

ASHLYEE HICKMANStaff Writer Philosophy and pancakes usually don’t mix, but for Humanities Chair Dr. Maire Mullins it’s just another day in the office. Well, offices. As a full-time mother of two and full-time professor of hundreds—Mullins’s life serves as anything but dull. The Ms. Congeniality of her department, with her smile and kind words, had quite a journey before … [Read more...] about Humanities Division: Chair Mullins

MICHELLE McKINLEYStaff Writer Walk into Professor David Holmes office and you will be greeted with a wide smile.  Holmes is a highly educated professor, an experienced preacher, and loving husband, but this professor’s greatest contribution to Pepperdine is his voice. According to Holmes, “There are many voices at Pepperdine and having another voice is helpful.”  He said that … [Read more...] about Humanities Division: Professor Holmes

ZACH ENGLUNDStaff Writer A graduate of Harvard University, a professor of law at the University of Georgia, associate counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor (1983-89), an attorney with Davis, Wright & Tremaine in Seattle (1979-83), and an author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Professor Edward Larson has a resume that puts him among … [Read more...] about Humanities Division: Professor Larson

STEVEN ARNOLDStaff Writer After 26 impressive years of service to the Pepperdine academic community James Thomas is still casting spells of intrigue on his students through the enchantment of classic literature. Thomas, an expert on 20th century Southern writers such as Lyle Saxon, Sherwood Anderson, and the highly influential William Faulkner, has given great effort to … [Read more...] about Humanities Division: Professor Thomas