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Dr. Marilyn Bierling

Emerita

Biography

Professor Bierling enjoys traveling, camping, hiking, swimming, language learning, and playing the piano and guitar, as well as Middle Eastern, Spanish, Mayan, and Peruvian archaeology.  She also volunteers at local immigration clinics, and she is currently organizing a second Calvin Alumni trip to Peru.  She and her husband have three married children and seven grandchildren, all living in the GR area.

Education

  • BA (Spanish, English, Secondary Education) Calvin College 1971
  • MA (Romance Linguistics) University of Michigan 1974
  • PhD (Spanish) Michigan State University 1990

Research

Professor Bierling鈥檚 academic interests include pronoun usage in Central America, Sephardic Spanish, the Phoenician colonization of Spain, and Hispanic immigration to the U.S., including Cuban immigration. 

Her conference presentations include the following:

  • 鈥淧eople Crossing Borders:  Where We Stand on Undocumented Immigration.鈥 Christian Association of
  • World Languages (CAWL) 2014.
  • 鈥淧rotestantism in Cuba:  A Unique Journey.鈥 CAWL 2012.
  • 鈥淭he Cuban Immigrant Experience in the U.S. Church.鈥 CAWL 2011.
  • 鈥淚mmigration Impasse:  Issues for the Classroom.鈥  Conference on Diversity, Calvin College, 2009)

Research and Scholarship

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Connections between Cuban Refugees and the CRC

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<p>Calvin's Heritage Hall in Hekman Library contains 18 videotaped interviews with subtitles and transcripts gleaned from Bierling and Brubaker's research (2011-2013).</p>
<p>See also their&nbsp;<a href="; on the World Renew website.</p>

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