Yvonne E. Wilber, Ph.D., M.S.L.S.

About

Greetings! I am a librarian at Cal Lutheran's Pearson Library and have taught in the Religion department for the Professionals program. I am a 12th-generation American and my family and ethnic heritage is of Western and Northern European descent, including ancestors from Scotland, England, Ireland, France, Germany, and Scandinavia. I am married and am a mother and grandmother who loves to tell stories and work with my hands. My academic interests are broad, yet seem to coalesce in what it means to be a person, and how we can live well with others. These others include those we might lovingly call animal people, bird people, river people, and plant people. My favorite first teachers and companions were the ash trees and the birds that lived in my childhood yard. As a philomath, I have spent much of my adult life learning about all the worlds we inhabit, or hope to inhabit. My formal education and professional research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, a fact that can be observed in my Curriculum Vitae. My awe of mystery and love for knowledge, for creativity, for others, and for the natural world flow outward in my life and work as an educator and spiritual leader. A lifelong Southern California resident, you can often find me in contemplation at the seashore (and in the waves!), or hiking and mountain biking the trails in the Ojai Valley where I live.

Education

PH.D. 2022
Humanities - Philosophy
Faulkner University, Montgomery, AL
"The Who of Climate Change"

MASTER OF ARTS 2014
Intellectual Leadership
A.W. Tozer Theological Seminary
Simpson University, Redding, CA
"An Ecumenical Approach to Immigration Reform"

MASTER OF SCIENCE 2012
Library Science
University of North Texas, Denton, TX

BACHELOR OF ARTS
Global Studies
University of Northwestern, St. Paul, MN

Expertise

Humanities: Western Philosophy and Theology; the Modern Human Subject

Library Subject Liaison for:
Bachelor's Degree for Professionals, Global Studies, Multimedia, Philosophy, Religion, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Ethnic & Race Studies, Exercise Science, Geology, Math, Physics 

Publications

"Aligning Practice with Belief: Bringing Antiracist Information Literacy and Writing Instruction to an HSI Lutheran University.” WPA: Writing Program Administration Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Antiracist Projects in Writing Program Administration, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 2021. pp. 162 - 168. (With Jolivette Mecenas and Meghan Kwast ).

“Antiracist and Faith-Based: Critical Pedagogy-Informed Writing and Information Literacy Instruction at a Hispanic-Serving, Lutheran Liberal Arts University.” Radical Teacher - A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, vol. 121, 9 December 2021. pp 14 -23 (With Jolivette Mecenas and Meghan Kwast ).

Grant Funding

2020 State of California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) COVID-19 Grant for innovation in virtual library instruction

2017 Pearson Library, CLU History Department: National Library of America & the National Endowment for the Humanities: World War I and America