Policy Studies Faculty

Associate Professor
Director, Center for the Humanities
Email: andrewss@grinnell.edu
I teach mostly 18th and 19th century American Literature, but I like to roam a little, especially if given the opportunity to team teach or supervise MAPs. During any four-year cycle I am likely to offer a seminar on Whitman and Dickinson; an American poetry seminar titled “Beat, Black, and...

Professor
Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from ΢ÃÜÆÆ½â, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His course offerings include microeconomic analysis, public economics, and environmental and resource economics. His research examines...
Senior Faculty
Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics
Email: ferguso1@grinnell.edu
Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at ΢ÃÜÆÆ½â, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic...

Assistant Professor
Email: larsonj@grinnell.edu
Jonathan Larson, Assistant Professor of Education, is a linguistic and political anthropologist of education with teaching, scholarly, and administrative expertise in issues concerning secondary education and democracy; political discourse, language socialization and literacy; multilingualism; and...
Assistant Professor
Email: vossoughi@grinnell.edu
I am a social psychologist with a focus on intergroup relations research. As an intergroup relations researcher, I am interested in the causes and consequences of intergroup inequality as well as factors that promote social change. I pursue these interests in two related lines of research. In my...