Dr. Larry M. Lake
Associate Professor of Writing

Contact Information: P.O. Box: 3017 E-mail: lake@messiah.edu Phone: (717) 796-1800 ext. 3360 Office: Boyer 212 Fax: (717) 796-4790

Education:
Ph.D., Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1989
M.A., English Literature, West Chester State College, 1982
B.A., English, and minor in Cultural Anthropology, Wheaton College, 1974

Dissertation:
Cultural Adaptation in Vernacular Literacy Programs of Irian
Jaya, Indonesia

Recent Publications:
Out There Beyond (a New Guinea pilot's memoir; coauthored with Captain Edward W. Ulrich). Christian Publications, 2000.

Richard Archbold in New Guinea: Money, Power and Science in the Colonial Pacific 1933-1939. (In preparation)

Courses Taught:
World Literature: Pacific Island Literature
Magazine Writing
Writing Topics: Reading and Writing Literary Nonfiction
First-Year Seminar: Pacific Voyages
Pacific Island Food and Culture
Plants and People: Introduction to Ethnobotany

Mentors and Advisors:
Linda Brodkey, David M. Smith, Frederick Erickson, Del Hymes

Ethnographic Fieldwork, 1987:
Available online at http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/s123/lake/_phd.html

	Jean Corey	Paul Nisly
	Crystal L. Downing	Peter Powers
	David Dzaka	Matthew Roth
	Larry Lake	Samuel Smith
	Heidi Lee	Helen Walker