Senior Erin Hess, history professor Chris Browning, junior Kristen Kehayas, President Loren Anderson, and PLU Regent Don Morken (1963) at the second annual Raphael Lemkin Essay Competition Awards Banquet in April, 1997.
Christopher Browning received his B.A. degree from Oberlin College in 1967 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and 1975. He taught for 25 years at PLU before becoming the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He was there from 1999 through his retirement in 2014. Browning, author of 8 books on the Holocaust, was the J. B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior Scholar (1996) and Ina Levine Senior Scholar (2002-3) at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.