Faculty
Professor
Emeritus
Arnold's research interests lie in number theory and algebraic geometry. He recently published the paper "Bounds of divided universal Bernoulli numbers and universal Kummer congruences," (with S. Wong and W. Ren) in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. Arnold is also active as a...
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Email: allamiali@grinnell.edu
Dr. Ali Allami is an assistant professor of computer science specializing in privacy, with a strong emphasis on distributed systems, ethical data practices, and privacy-preserving technologies. Before joining ƽ, he served as a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Allami...
Associate Professor
Email: allenleah@grinnell.edu
Leah Claire Allen is Associate Professor in Gender, Womens, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and English at ƽ. Professor Allen teaches Introduction to GWSS, Theory and Methods in GWSS, Masculinity in American Literature, the capstone Senior Seminar in GWSS, and Queer and Trans...
Senior Lecturer
2025 ACLS Fellow
I study the history of print culture and ideas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the late eighteenth century to the present. My research and teaching interests include: modern MENA history, politics, and cultures; intellectual and literary histories of the Arab world; histories of...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Rosenfield Professor in Social Science
Email: andelson@grinnell.edu
Jonathan Andelson was born in Chicago and earned a B.A. from ƽ in 1970 and a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Michigan in 1974. His main interests are intentional communities, religion, agriculture, and human-environment interactions. His principal field research, on the Amana...
Applied Music Associate
Lecturer
Flute and Director of the ƽ Fresh Flutes Ensemble
Email: anderso5@grinnell.edu
Claudia Anderson is known for her originality and brilliance as a solo and chamber music performer across the U.S. She is a founding member of the innovative flute duo ZAWA! and of New Prairie Camerata, a chamber initiative based in ƽ that showcased the community's historical and...
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: anger@grinnell.edu
Jenny Anger is professor of art history at ƽ, where she has taught since earning her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University in 1997. Angers specialty is twentieth-century European art history and theory. Her first book, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern...
Professor
Email: aparicio@grinnell.edu
At ƽ, Yvette Aparicio is Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies. She teaches contemporary Latin American literature and cultures, Latin American Studies and Spanish. Her course offerings include Introduction to Latin American Studies (taught in English) and Latin American Food &...
Professor
Department chair of Russian, Central European, and Eurasian Studies
Email: armstron@grinnell.edu
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Programs
Email: arnertim@grinnell.edu
Tim Arner specializes in medieval literature. His research and teaching interests include the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, the influence of classical texts on Middle English poetry, and the intersections between fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literature and politics. He has published articles on...
Assistant Professor
Email: baconjul@grinnell.edu
J. M. Bacon (Jules) Assistant Professor Offices, Departments, or Centers: Sociology, Environmental Studies J. M. Bacon is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department specializing in environmental sociology. Dr. Bacons research explores the relationship between culture, identity, and eco...
Email: barhoumia@grinnell.edu
Ahmad Barhoumi is an analyst whose work sits at the intersection of approximation theory, mathematical physics, and integrable systems. Much of his research involves understanding the fine asymptotic behavior of special functions and its consequences in those areas. Before coming to ƽ...
Senior Faculty
Email: barlow@grinnell.edu
George Barlow is a poet who earned a B.A. in English from California State University, Hayward, an M.A. in American Studies and an M.F.A. in Poetry, both from the University of Iowa. He specializes in African-American literature, poetry, and teaches Craft of Poetry and the Poetry Seminar most...
Professor
Social Studies and Data Services Librarian
Director of DASIL
Email: bauderj@grinnell.edu
Julia Bauders research and teaching focuses on the intersection of data, technology, and information literacy. How can colleges make sure that all students, not just those majoring in statistics or data science, are data literate? What would it look like to take data across the curriculum or...
Professor
Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
Email: beauboeuf@grinnell.edu
Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant (known as Dr. B on campus) is a womanist sociologist. She came to ƽ in fall 2019 and teaches the three core courses (Intro, Theory and Methods, and Senior Seminar) as well as the electives Growing up Girl, Feminist Educations, and Beyond the Little Mermaid: Race...
Professor
Email: benoist@grinnell.edu
Valrie Benoist is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies specializing in colonial literature. She teaches for the Spanish Department as well as for the Latin American Studies Concentration. Her course offerings include Introduction to Latin American Studies (in English) as well as...
Emeritus
Email: bentleyc@grinnell.edu
Vicki Bentley-Condit has taught biological anthropology at ƽ since 1995. She is a primatologist who has conducted research with both wild and captive baboon populations and captive rhesus macaques. Her primary research interests are mother-infant relationships and infant development. However...
Assistant Professor
Email: bhattacharya@grinnell.edu
I work on mathematics of materials, in particular, on understanding fracture propagation in solids, and determining effective or homogenized properties of granular aggregates. I use high-performance computing and analysis of partial differential equations, especially of nonlocal and nonlinear types...
Assistant Professor
Email: blaberbe@grinnell.edu
Bevin Blaber is a scholar of philosophy of religions. Her work centers on continental philosophy, ethics, and modern Jewish thought and literature, with particular emphasis on post-Holocaust thought. In her first monograph, an interdisciplinary project combining philosophical, literary and...
Professor
Email: blanchaj@grinnell.edu
Jeff is an applied harmonic analyst studying composite dilation wavelets and compressed sensing. With applications to digital signal processing, these fields explore the mathematics of efficient representation and acquisition of signals. This has led to excursions in probability, high dimensional...
Lecturer
Director of the Mathematics Laboratory
Email: bourgeoi2@grinnell.edu
Renee is a 1996 graduate of ƽ with a major in mathematics. She started her career in mathematics education while a student at ƽ by working as a grader, Math Lab tutor, Real Problems tutor, and student secretary for the (then) Mathematics/Computer Science department. Since...
Associate Professor
Email: brotteml@grinnell.edu
I teach courses in Global Development Studies and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). My research focuses on the intersection of human security, conflict, and development in West and Central Africa. Current activities engage with local dynamics in conflict-affected communities in Mali, Benin, Chad...
Professor
Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from ƽ, 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...
Professor
Director of Collegium Musicum
Email: brownjen@grinnell.edu
Jennifer Williams Brown (musicology) is a specialist in the history and performance of Baroque music, particularly 17th-century Italian opera. Her research focuses on decoding clues in 17th-century manuscript and printed sources, then making the results accessible to modern performers, students, and...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: brownv@grinnell.edu
Professor Brown has been a member of the ƽ History Department since the fall of 1989. She has chaired the History Department and the Gender and Women's Studies concentration, been an active participant in the Center for Prairie Studies, and served as chair of the Social Studies Division...
Applied Music Associate
Banjo
Fred Buck is currently a AMA of Music at ƽ, where he currently teaches banjo, resphonic guitar (Dobro) and mandolin. He played piano and accordion in his youth and became interested in old time and bluegrass music and has become proficient in most of the old time time instruments...
Assistant Professor
Email: buithuha@grinnell.edu
Ha Bui, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in International Economics from the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her course offerings include Macroeconomics and Time Series Econometrics. Her research interests are in the...
Associate Professor
Email: bursonkr@grinnell.edu
Kristen Burson is an experimental condensed matter physicist. Her research group focuses on studies of nanoscale electronics and the atomic structure of silica using surface science techniques. Burson earned her bachelors degree from Gustavus Adolphus College and her Ph.D. in physics from the...
Email: cabrerab@grinnell.edu
Hello! Nice to meet you! I am Byron, ÷Փ, ÷݂ or ???, as you prefer. I like learning new languages and cultures, and I am more than happy to chat in English, Spanish or Japanese, so if you see me around, please don't hesitate to say hello!
Professor
Emeritus
Email: cadmus@grinnell.edu
Current research involves the study of the behavior of red giant stars using the telescope at ƽ⡯s observatory. Selected Research Students & Projects: Nicholas Hill '09, "Observations of the Crab Pulsar Light Curve at Optical Wavelengths" Rosie Malsberger '09, "Galactic Spectroscopy: The...
Professor
Henry R. Luce Professor of Nations and the Global Environment
Email: campbell@grinnell.edu
Tropical Ecology My research is in the ecology and species composition of tropical and subtropical forests in both the Paleotropics and Neotropics. In the Brazilian Amazon, I have eight permanent study sites - embracing a total of over 22,000 trees which are regularly monitored - from the foothills...
Assistant Professor
Research and Instruction Resident Librarian
Email: solcata@grinnell.edu
Consulting Areas Spanish, Music, Latin American Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies
Associate Professor
Email: chajee@grinnell.edu
Jee-Weon Cha is a music theorist whose work explores the intersection of music, meaning, and human experience. His research encompasses such topics as analysis and interpretation, perception and cognition, semiotics and aesthetics, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of theory, with a...
Professor
Myra Steele Professor of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Email: chamberl@grinnell.edu
Marc Chamberland enjoys teaching a diverse set of courses in the mathematics curriculum. With the support of an NSF grant, he has developed materials to emphasize computer discovery. Marc has published over fifty papers in refereed journals (with twenty co-authors) and regularly speaks at...
Emeritus
Email: chasso@grinnell.edu
Chasson entered senior faculty status in the summer of 2012 after teaching at ƽ since 1980. His research focusses on the functions of decoration and illustration in medieval Latin manuscripts made for use in monasteries and cathedrals, especially in Italy and France from the 11th through the...
Associate Professor
Email: chenjer@grinnell.edu
Jeremy Chen is an artist and educator with an MFA in Printmaking (Sculpture minor) from The University of Iowa (2006), Center for the Book Arts Certificate (2006) and a BA in Art including K-12 teacher certification (1994). His cultural production includes work in three areas: individual practice...
Assistant Professor
Email: chenyuji@grinnell.edu
Dixuan Yujing Chen (religious name: Dixuan Shi), Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at ƽ, is an ordained Buddhist nun of the Mahayana tradition. She received her PhD in East Asian Religions from the University of Florida in 2017, and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion from...
Assistant Professor
Email: chixiang@grinnell.edu
Shawn Chi received a B.A. from Huazhong University of Science & Technology, an M.A. from Peking University, and a PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder. As an applied economist, his research interests span financial economics, public finance, and economic demography. He has received research...
Associate Professor
Librarian of the College
Email: christelmark@grinnell.edu
Areas of responsibility Library Administration; Collection Development; Library Planning. Consulting Areas Physical Education
Associate Professor
Email: christenc@grinnell.edu
Prof. Charlotte Christensen is an associate professor of physics at ƽ. Her research is focused on understanding the process of galaxy formation through the use of detailed computer simulations. In 2018, she received the National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which supports her...
Applied Music Associate
Bagpipe
Rob Clower has been teaching Highland bagpipes for more than 40 years. His students play in pipe bands throughout that U.S. and abroad, many also competing successfully as soloists. In 2007, Rob founded Turlach Ur, now the largest band in Iowa. Under his direction, Turlach Ur enjoyed a highly...
Professor
Director
Email: cohned@grinnell.edu
Edward Cohn is a scholar of Soviet and Eastern European history, with a specialty in the history of policing, surveillance, and the often-blurry line between public and private life in the Communist world. A 1999 graduate of Swarthmore College, he worked for a year as a political journalist and came...
Associate Professor
Email: conwaych@grinnell.edu
I study the neurocognitive mechanisms of learning and memory, specifically a form of implicit learning referred to as statistical learning, and how such mechanisms are used in the service of language development across diverse experiences. My work relies on a combination of cognitive and cognitive...
Associate Professor
Email: cooperidelle@grinnell.edu
Professor Cooper is interested in the evolution and ecology of phenotypic variation, particularly the selection pressures that lead to variation between sexes and between species. To study this, she investigates color and behavior of species in two damselfly genera, Megalagrion (an endemic Hawaiian...
Assistant Professor
Email: correaol@grinnell.edu
Olga M. Correa (she/her/ella) studies educational policy. Her research and teaching examines how race, ethnicity, and class impact educational opportunities for historically marginalized communities. Dr. Correa collaborates with educators, school administrators, and families to better understand the...
Associate Professor
Email: couzoevan@grinnell.edu
Evan Couzo is an environmental and atmospheric scientist. His research interests cover a broad range of air quality issues from pollutant formation and public health to regulatory decision-making and climate change. Evan's projects use sophisticated computer models and atmospheric measurements to...
Lecturer
Email: critesda@grinnell.edu
As a lecturer in art history at ƽ, I get to introduce students to the fascinating fields of medieval and Renaissance art from Europe and the greater Mediterranean. Though I love the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris, and the Sistine Chapel, I am particularly interested in art that...
Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher
Email: crooksash@grinnell.edu
Ashley Crooks-Allen (They/Them) is the incoming Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Sociology department at ƽ.They were the 2022-2024 Dubois-Mandela Rodney / Anti-Racism Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. They obtained their PhD from the University of...
Associate Professor
Email: cumminsm@grinnell.edu
Monessa Cummins received her Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on Greek epinician poetry, a type of lyric poetry composed in praise of victors at ancient athletic games. In particular she studies this poetry within its historical and archaeological context. In...
Professor
Email: cunningh@grinnell.edu
Selected Research Students & Projects Greg Dyer 04, Magnetic phase diagrams of RCo2Ge2 single crystals. Xu Wang 04, Effect of site dilution on magnetic transitions in (DyxY(1-x))Co2Ge2. Heather Thiessen 02, Magnetic anisotropy in the RCo2Ge2 Series.
Associate Professor
Office Hours My office hours during the Fall 2022 semester are: Monday: 1:30C2:30pm Tuesday: 1:30C3:00pm Wednesday: 3:15C4:45pm Friday: 8:45C9:45am (by appointment only) I am happy to take walk-ins during my office hours, but you can also reserve at time at calendly.com/curtsinger.
Assistant Professor
Email: dantasbru@grinnell.edu
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer, translator of Brazilian literature, and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at ƽ. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, was published in 2024 by Black Cat/Grove Atlantic in North America and is forthcoming in several countriesincluding...
Emeritus
Email: delmenic@grinnell.edu
Lesley Delmenico is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at ƽ, ƽ Iowa. After a decade spent living outside the US, where she experienced decolonization and became interested in postcolonial performance, she was an actor in Chicago before earning her M.A...
Associate Professor
Email: deridder@grinnell.edu
Plant Molecular Biology My research focuses on the response of plants to environmental stress at the molecular, biochemical, and physiological levels, utilizing both crop and model plant species. Most of my research centers on non-biological stresses such as exposure to foreign compounds, or...
Associate Professor
Email: dixondus@grinnell.edu
Dustin Dixon teaches courses on the literature and culture of ancient Greece as well as Greek and Latin courses from the elementary to the advanced levels. He regularly teaches first-year Greek, and his past courses have focused on ancient drama; Athenian political culture; classical mythology...
Emerita
Email: dobbs@grinnell.edu
Elizabeth Dobbs regularly taught courses on rhetoric and historical linguistics, and seminars on Chaucer and other English and European medieval writers. She co-taught a MAP Seminar, Conceptions of Space and Place in Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-1650, and has directed MAPs for the Linguistics...
Professor
Email: dobetimo@grinnell.edu
Professor Dobe teaches courses on Hinduism, Bollywood and religion, Gandhi, Global Christianity and Sufism. His research focuses on comparing religions, traditions of sainthood and asceticism, and the history of western imperialism, religious pluralism and modernization. His book about Hindu and...
Associate Professor
Email: driscoll@grinnell.edu
I'm originally from Galway, Ireland and made it to ƽ by way of Leiden (Holland), Copenhagen, Washington, London, Oslo, and finally Wisconsin, either working in international development or researching themes in comparative politics. My work is on the political economy of development and the...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: duke@grinnell.edu
Current Research Interests The study of high-energy gamma-rays incident on the earth's atmosphere from astrophysical sources through the Veritas Collaboration consumes most of my time. The Veritas Collaboration built and manages the four-telescope array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes...
Assistant Professor
Email: dzyadevych@grinnell.edu
Tetyana Dzyadevych is a researcher, commentator, and analyst of contemporary Ukrainian and Russian culture and literature. She is coming to teach at ƽ after a year of research at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, where she is currently working on...
Professor
Waldo S. Walker Chair in Biology
Email: eckhart@grinnell.edu
My students and I try to determine: (1) how natural selection shapes plant reproduction, life history, and physiology; and (2) why plant species occur where they do, rather than somewhere else. A westerner transplanted to Iowa, I seem to be reasonably well adapted to this novel habitat. I attended...
Professor
Email: eklundhi@grinnell.edu
Hillary Eklund specializes in literatures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and regularly teaches courses on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, and literature and environment. In her scholarship, she seeks to understand the moral attitudes and material practices of the era that gave rise to...
Professor
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Email: elfenbei@grinnell.edu
I am a Professor of History and Religious Studies at ƽ, where I am also Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. I graduated from Vassar College with a degree in political science, an education that still informs my work and my life. I have a...
Assistant Professor
Email: eliottfe@grinnell.edu
Fernanda Eliott is an assistant professor of computer science at ƽ. Professor Eliott builds Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that use cognitive inspiration and Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. Her overall goal is to develop state-of-the-art cognitively inspired...
Professor
Email: ellisa@grinnell.edu
I spend my research time exploring the development of childrens cognitive processes. My work is motivated by the goal to understand how childrens developing abilities and their experiences in the world interact with their developing cognitive processes. I teach classes on psychology and child...
Applied Music Associate
College Organist
Organ
Email: elsbernd@grinnell.edu
Michael Elsbernd teaches organ and provides ceremonial music for various gatherings in Herrick Chapel as ƽ⡯s College Organist. His research on the North German Baroque musician Johann Adam Reincken was funded by a grant from The Presser Foundation in 2001, upon the recommendation of the...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: elytaryn@grinnell.edu
Taryn Elys teaching and research focus on experimental cinema, popular film, and spectatorship as reflections of experiences and debates in social and political history, specifically the inequalities surrounding disability, gender, colonialism, and class. She is currently expanding her doctoral...
Assistant Professor
Email: erftenbeck@grinnell.edu
I am an anthropological archaeologist who studies daily life in the past, ancient foodways, and early urbanism. I work mostly in modern day Jordan, but have also excavated and surveyed in Germany, Trkiye, Greece, Israel, and the U.S. My current research focuses on exploring some of the earliest...
Professor
Email: ERICKSOK@grinnell.edu
Karla is a feminist ethnographer of labor. She studies interaction and community in market exchanges. In her first book, The Hungry Cowboy she studied Cheers-like community building in a Tex-Mex restaurant as a way of thinking about how connection was offered and sometimes found in the marketplace...
Professor
Email: escandel@grinnell.edu
Xavier Escandell's research explores immigration, transnationalism, and race/ethnic relations in the context of Western and Eastern Europe and Latin America. His published work appears in journals such as Annual Review of Sociology, British Journal of Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Social...
Lecturer
Applied Music Associate: Jazz Voice and Director of Latin American Jazz Ensemble
Email: espinosa@grinnell.edu
Gabriel Espinosa was born in Merida, Mexico. His love of music began at a very young age. With the help of his mother he began playing the guitar at the age of six. By the age of fourteen, along with his brothers Victor and Patricio, Gabriel performed with their group Los Deltons, where he played...
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at ƽ. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include Chinese Women: Past and Present, Modern China through...
Senior Faculty
Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics
Email: ferguso1@grinnell.edu
Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at ƽ, 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...
Professor
Director of Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Email: fergusos@grinnell.edu
Susan Ferguson (she/her) is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at ƽ, where she has taught for over 30 years. Ferguson regularly teaches Introduction to Sociology, and her critically acclaimed anthology, Mapping the Social Landscape...
Assistant Professor
Email: footea@grinnell.edu
Aaron Foote is an urban sociologist and community activist from Flint, Michigan. His research examines the social, political, and economic factors that led to the Flint Water Crisis, specifically detailing how state and suburban actors sought to take over water rights in Southeast Michigan...
Assistant Professor
Sara Francisco received her dual-title Ph.D. in sociology and Social Data Analytics from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research and teaching interests include studying identity, health, and quantitative methods. Her research often uses a myriad of quantitative methods to explore and extract...
Associate Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: freemanw@grinnell.edu
For my Grandkids, Athletes and Colleagues After a highly successful 42 years of coaching and teaching sport psychology and sport sociology at ƽ, Will Freeman has retired from coaching to teach exclusively in the American studies department at ƽ. His innovative and successful...
Professor
Assistant Vice President of Global Education
Email: frenchb@grinnell.edu
Brigittine French joined the ƽ faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative, testimonial discourse, violence, gender, rights...
Professor
Email: frenchc@grinnell.edu
Christopher's research involves the study of association schemes, along with a new kind of mathematical object called a hypergroup. Association schemes are combinatorial structures which originally arose in statistics, but have since yielded applications to a wide variety of other fields, including...
Instructor
Email: friedrichsen@grinnell.edu
I started here at ƽ in 2024, and previously I was a graduate student in statistics at Iowa State University. This semester I am teaching Intro to Data Science (STA-230) and Applied Statistics (STA-209). Previously I have also taught Intro to Statistics (SST-115). My primary research interests...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: gaub@grinnell.edu
Pianist Eugene Gaub is Professor of Music at ƽ, where he teaches courses in music theory as well as piano. He has recently given lecture-recitals for the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music, held in Mojcar, Spain, and at the Universit Laval in Qubec City, with another...
Applied Music Associate
Violin
Andrew Gentzsch, a native of Iowa City, is the violin instructor at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa and ƽ in ƽ, Iowa. Mr. Gentzsch has led the University of Delaware Chamber Orchestra and the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Mr. Gentzsch received music...
Emeritus
Email: gibel@grinnell.edu
Katya Gibel Mevorach holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She received her B.A. and M.A. in African Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Gibel Mevorach is a Professor in Anthropology and American Studies at ƽ. Baccalaureate 2017: Professor...
Professor
Emerita
Email: gibsonj@grinnell.edu
A s a cognitive psychologist, Professor Gibsons research focused on executive functions (flexibility, updating, and managing resources) and on implicit memory (the influence of past experience in the absence of conscious recollection) with a focus on aging and problem solving. In recent years...
Assistant Professor
Email: ginnj@grinnell.edu
Joel Ginn is an assistant professor of psychology with a focus on studying social change, sustainability, and interventions to shift individual and political actions. After receiving his BA from Oberlin College with a concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies, he attended the University of...
Assistant Professor
Email: glewweel@grinnell.edu
Eleanor Glewwe earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2019. Her research interests lie in phonology and phonetics. She uses artificial grammar learning experiments to test whether people are biased toward learning phonetically natural phonological patterns. More recently, she has become...
Professor
Email: grahambj@grinnell.edu
On leave 2023C24 academic year. Bradley Graham (Ph.D. University of Colorado, 2008) C Bradley Graham, Associate Professor, has B.S.E and J.D. degrees from the University of Iowa, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His course offerings include the economics of...
Associate Professor
Email: greener@grinnell.edu
Raquel joined the department in 1998 as a CSMP scholar and dissertation fellow. Raquel teaches all levels of the Russian language curriculum, and also teaches a course based on her research, "The Theme of the African in Russian Literature and Culture." Her research takes her to Moscow on a regular...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Douglas Johnson 77 Professor of Biology
Email: greggjol@grinnell.edu
2019 Distinguished Faculty Member Award, Iowa Chapter of the AAUW for work for educational equity for women and underrepresented groups in higher education
Professor
Emeritus
Non-Teaching
Email: grey@grinnell.edu
While his initial research agenda was on mass attitudes and behavior in Africa, over the last decade his research has focused on comparable phenomena in Russia. In particular, he is concerned with mass support (or lack thereof) for Russian democratization, and with Russian nationalism. He has...
Lecturer
Email: grimmma@grinnell.edu
Marlys Grimm attended Sheldon High School and Central College, where she studied piano with Donald Gren. She has collaborated at Dordt, Northwestern, ƽ and Central colleges in student and faculty recitals. Grimm has accompanied high school, college, community and professional singers...
Professor
Emerita
Email: grossj@grinnell.edu
Jan Gross is Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages, emerita. She earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages at the University of Michigan and an M.A. from Ohio State. Her teaching and research focus on how theatre and dialogue enable us to imagine the other. Her work on Algerian-born...
Associate Professor
Department chair of Science, Medicine, and Society
Email: guenthmb@grinnell.edu
Mike Guenther began teaching at ƽ in 2007, having received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, and his M.A. & Ph.D from Northwestern University. A historian of science, technology and the environment, he is currently finishing a book project (tentatively entitled, Science and...
Professor
Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at ƽ where he teaches Social Movements, Deviance and Social Control, Sociological Theory, Men and Masculinities, and introductory sociology courses. He loves teaching and tries to teach classes that create possibilities for students to live more...
Assistant Professor
Email: kellyand@grinnell.edu
On leave 2023C24 academic year. Andrea Hall, Assistant Professor, received her B.S. in Economics from the University of South Dakota and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Her teaching and research areas are health economics and public economics. Much of her research focuses on the impacts of...
Associate Professor
Special Advisor to the Dean
Email: hansency@grinnell.edu
Cynthia Hansen began teaching in the Linguistics Concentration at ƽ in January 2012. Her research focuses on the documentation and linguistic description of Iquito, a highly endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. She teaches the core courses within the Linguistics Concentration...
Associate Professor
Email: hansonpe@grinnell.edu
Peter Hanson is an Associate Professor of Political Science and a specialist in American politics. He teaches courses on constitutional law and American political institutions. His research explores the politics of the United States Congress. His book Too Weak to Govern: Majority Party Power in the...
Professor
Email: harrisod@grinnell.edu
Professor David Harrison received a B.A. in French from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France. He is the principal translator and co-editor...
Assistant Professor
Email: hazelchristy@grinnell.edu
Christys research is in a field of mathematics known as algebraic topology. Roughly speaking, algebraic topology studies the different ways we can assign meaningful algebraic data to geometric objects. This allows us to then use algebraic tools to answer geometric questions that were otherwise...
Assistant Professor
Email: hebbarpr@grinnell.edu
Pratima is a mathematician working in the fields of Probability, Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems. She mainly works on problems arising from stochastic processes that are used to model various real-world phenomena. She studies the long-time behavior of these random processes by...
Applied Music Associate
Cello
Email: hensonal@grinnell.edu
Alan Henson is the cello instructor at ƽ and has an active private studio in Ames. He is Principal Cellist of the Central Iowa Symphony, and plays double bass for touring Broadway shows at Des Moines Civic Center. He is former Principal Bassist of the Des Moines, Dubuque, and Waterloo...
Associate Professor
Email: lewiscar@grinnell.edu
Carolyn Herbst is Associate Professor of Gender, Womens, and Sexuality Studies and History. She joined the faculty at ƽ in 2013. Professor Herbst is a specialist in the fields of American womens history and the histories of sex, sexuality, and medicine in the United States. Herbsts...
Professor
Emeritus
Gene's greatest interest for many years has been the use of computing in teaching and learning mathematics. The most significant result of his efforts in this area is the textbook which he coauthored with Michael Pepe and which was published by John Wiley & Sons, Visual Linear Algebra. In recent...
Professor
Email: hernandh@grinnell.edu
Experienced researcher with a proven track record of mentoring undergraduate students and guiding them through successful research projects. Skillful at fostering academic growth and inspiring future scholars through hands-on mentorship and collaborative research initiatives.
Professor
Email: heroldk@grinnell.edu
Kelly Herold has spent several summers, a spring and two winters in Russia. Her research on memoir and travel writing has taken her to Dublin, London and Prague. She has written commentary to Sumarokov's Ody torzhestvennye (included in a facsimile edition, a project directed by Ronald Vroon and E.P...
Assistant Professor
Email: herstedt@grinnell.edu
Paul's research is in the realm of pure mathematics, at the intersection of operator algebras and dynamical systems. Given a dynamical system, one can encode the information of the system inside of a C*-algebra and use this duality to study both the dynamical systems and their associated operator...
Associate Professor
Email: hillsdar@grinnell.edu
Darrius D. Hills is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at ƽ. He received his M.Div. from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and his M.A. and Ph.D in Religion (concentration in African American Religion) from Rice University. His research ventures privilege African...
Professor
Email: hinsa@grinnell.edu
Shannon Hinsa-Leasure is a microbiologist and a professor of biology at ƽ in Iowa. Her research interests include microbial diversity, antibiotic resistance and genetic exchange, and strategies for bacterial survival. Most recently she began a collaboration with Dr. Lillian...
Assistant Professor
Email: hiranmay@grinnell.edu
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist-scholar serving as Assistant Professor of Music (Performance and Creativity), where he directs the Balinese Sound Ensemble and teaches courses on Heavy Metal Music, Electronic Music, and Noise and Activism. He also is a founding member of Balinese...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: hunter@grinnell.edu
My academic interests currently focus on the organizational analysis of nonprofit organizations. In the past, I have served as ƽ's coordinator of the American Sociological Association's Minority Opportunities through School Transformation Program, as a member of the college's...
Lecturer
Kathleen Hurley is the instructor/lecturer for THD 104 and THD 204, the dance technique classes for the ƽ Department of Theatre and Dance. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Hurley & Dancers, a professional modern dance company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Hurley also was...
Professor
Email: hutchiso@grinnell.edu
Paul Hutchison, Professor of Education, is ƽ⡯s science and math education specialist. He teaches lots of courses including Educational Principles in a Pluralistic Society, The Politics of Educational Assessment, Educational Psychology, the teaching methods courses for math and science, and...
Professor
Emerita
Email: ireland@grinnell.edu
Susan Ireland is Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature. She grew up in England, and taught in France for eight years before coming to the United States in 1982. She has a B.A. in French and Latin from the University of Bristol (England), a "ma?trise" in Applied Linguistics from...
Professor
Email: jacobsok@grinnell.edu
I am a fungal biologist and I teach in the Biology Department at ƽ. Faculty members teach BIO 150 - Introduction to Biological Inquiry on subject matter of our choosing, because our course goals are to expose students to learning by doing experimental science. My BIO 150 section is...
Professor
Faculty Director
Email: jacobsop@grinnell.edu
I am an ecosystem ecologist teaching at ƽ, a four-year liberal arts undergraduate institution in Iowa. All faculty in the Biology Department teach the introductory course (Introduction to Biological Inquiry) on subject matter of our choice, as the goal of the course is to expose...
Professor
Director, Center for Prairie Studies
Email: jakubiak@grinnell.edu
As Director of the Center for Prairie Studies, Cori works closely with the Center for Prairie Studies Advisory Board to create opportunities for the campus and wider community to learn about, engage with, and celebrate Central Iowa's tallgrass prairie region. She teaches a course on place-based...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: jamesjes@grinnell.edu
I am a Classicist, historian, and lawyer whose research seeks to illuminate how legal institutions, social forces, and human psychology have interacted over time to shape the dynamic lived reality of law at various times and scales. My first book, Laws of All the Greeks: International Law as Social...
Assistant Professor
Email: jansonla@grinnell.edu
Lara Janson (05) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at ƽ. A sociologist specializing in gender, sexuality, law, education, and qualitative/mixed research methods, she is interested in researching and teaching about intersections of inequality. Dr. Janson enjoys...
Professor
Emeritus
When Chuck moved from Senior Faculty Status to Professor Emeritus, he gave up his last teaching related duty: conducting summer research with ƽ students. This was an activity he began in 1992, and in the following years he worked with a total of 39 students. Chuck investigates problems in...
Associate Professor
Email: JOHNSOLA@grinnell.edu
Lakesia D. Johnson is Associate Professor of Gender, Womens, & Sexuality Studies and English at ƽ. Johnson received a bachelors from Smith College. She earned her J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. in Women's Studies from the Ohio State University. Her areas of teaching and research include...
Lecturer
Director of the Young, Gifted, and Black Gospel Choir
Email: jonesbar@grinnell.edu
Barry Jones has been the full-time director for the Young, Gifted, and Black (YGB) Gospel Choir since the fall of 2006. He served as guest director and interim director during the three years prior to his full-time appointment. Barry is also known in the Des Moines, Iowa, community and surrounding...
Associate Professor
Special Collections Librarian and Archivist of the College
Email: joneschr@grinnell.edu
Consulting Areas European Studies; History; Prairie Studies
Associate Professor
Humanities Librarian and Coordinator of Research Services
Email: jonesphi@grinnell.edu
Areas of Responsibility Coordinates reference and instruction services Consulting Areas Chinese and Japanese; General Literary Studies; German Studies; Philosophy; Religious Studies; East Asian Studies
Associate Professor
Email: jonesste@grinnell.edu
Stephanie P. Jones, Ph.D. is an associate Professor of Education at ƽ, where she teaches courses in Youth Culture, Young Adult Literature and Introduction to Educational Studies. Her two research strands examine Black womens literacy practices and the exploration of racialized trauma...
Associate Professor
Email: jonkmanj@grinnell.edu
Jeff came to ƽ in 2009, and was previously a faculty member at Mississippi State University and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where he taught a variety of statistics courses. Jeff's primary research is in the area of meta-analysis, which deals with appropriate statistical...
Applied Music Associate
Collaborative Pianist
Email: joohyeji@grinnell.edu
Dr. Hyejin Joo won the gold medal at the Seattle International Piano Competition and top awards from the Wideman, Chautauqua, Indiana University Concerto Competition, Seoul National University Concerto Competition, and the Kumho Art Foundation Audition. She is a member of the Civic Orchestra of...
Assistant Professor
Email: jozwiaka@grinnell.edu
Andreas Jozwiak is an Assistant Professor at ƽ. His research in comparative politics focuses on questions of inequality related to gender, race, and class in advanced democracies. His primary research questions surround the politics and consequences of family policies for gender (in...
Assistant Professor
Email: juston@grinnell.edu
I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at ƽ. I have a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, with an emphasis on International Relations and Political Theory. I am a teacher-scholar with expertise in ethics, international law, migration and citizenship...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: kaiser@grinnell.edu
Kaiser has taught at ƽ since 1979, and in 2008, entered senior faculty status. A specialist in medieval and early modern Russia, Mr. Kaiser has studied legal, social, and demographic history. He is the author of The Growth of the Law in Medieval Russia (Princeton University Press, 1980), and...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Earl D. Strong Professor in Social Studies
Email: kamp@grinnell.edu
Kathryn Kamp teaches anthropology and archaeology at ƽ. While she has worked in Syria and Belize, her major research focus is the study of the Puebloan populations who once resided near modern Flagstaff, Arizona where she has been excavating and doing survey for over twenty years. She...
Associate Professor
Email: kamunded@grinnell.edu
Professor Kamunde-Devonish studies inorganic chemistry. Her research is focused on the synthetic design of metal complexes that can serve as models for metalloenzymes, and studying the structure-function relationships of these complexes to better understand how they activate small molecules in...
Professor
Maxeiner Baumann-Payne Professor of English
Email: kapilas@grinnell.edu
Shuchi Kapila teaches literature in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Her other teaching interests include transnational feminisms, the novel, and narrative theory. Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism and literary and cultural...
Professor
Emeritus
George A. Drake Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
Email: kasimow@grinnell.edu
Articles on Kasimow and his Works Judaism Open to the Religions of the Nations: A Polish Catholic Theologian reads an American Jewish Pluralist A review of Professor Harold Kasimow's The Search Will Make You Free: A Jewish Dialogue with World Religions To Be a Mensch Professor Harold Kasimow's...
Professor
Interim Director, Donald and Winifred Wilson Center for Innovation & Leadership
Email: kaufmana@grinnell.edu
Andrew Kaufman received his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2002 from the University of South Florida in a studio art program that emphasized concept. Kaufman considers himself a convergent artist, letting idea dictate medium, which has led to a multiplicity of mediums that include video, sound...
Assistant Professor
Email: kenkeljennifer@grinnell.edu
My research is on abstract math, specifically commutative algebra. I am particularly interested in local cohomology modules; these objects are defined in a very abstract way, and yet can be understood with friendly, concrete calculations. In some number systems, there are ways to factor numbers...
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Email: kimdasol@grinnell.edu
Dasol Kim is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow and faculty member in Early Modern art history at ƽ, where she will offer classes on transcultural early modernism and introduction to art history. Kim specializes in Renaissance and Baroque European decorative arts and prints with...
Assistant Professor
Email: kimmins@grinnell.edu
Minseog Kim, Assistant Professor of Economics, received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Yonsei University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. His course offerings include Corporate Finance and Econometrics. His research interests...
Instructor
Email: klassenan@grinnell.edu
Andrea Kate Klassen specializes in medieval plainchant and early music, with an emphasis on medieval notations and manuscript contexts. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music History from the University of Manitoba, and a Master of Arts from Dalhousie University in Musicology. She is currently a...
Professor
Email: kluberm@grinnell.edu
Matthew Kluber teaches print media, digital media, drawing and hybrid media. Kluber holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa and a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught at the University of Iowa and at Iowa State University and was...
Associate Professor
Librarian (Senior Faculty Status)
Email: knight@grinnell.edu
Cecilia Knight is an Associate Professor in the Libraries at ƽ. She is very involved in digital scholarship efforts at ƽ including the institutional repository, Digital ƽ, and many digital projects on campus as a librarian with a specialization in organization...
Assistant Professor
Email: kohlowen@grinnell.edu
Kohls anthropological research explores media-making and different social imaginations of home, including exclusivist visions of homeland. He asks how communication technologies intersect with dynamic understandings of belonging and power, both in the contemporary US and after socialist Yugoslavia...
Professor
Email: kuipers@grinnell.edu
Professor Kuipers courses at ƽ emphasize the application of statistics to multiple disciplines, a topic she also emphasizes in her research. Prior to teaching, she worked as a senior engineer and consulting statistician for Hallmark Greeting Cards. She also serves as a statistical consultant...
Assistant Professor
Email: kulstadt@grinnell.edu
Tess M. Kulstad Gonzalez is a sociocultural anthropologist with a longstanding interest in the social construction of relatedness, childrearing, and the human rights of children. Her research explores the ways in which local and global sociocultural, economic, political processes affect family...
Associate Professor
Email: lacson@grinnell.edu
Assistant Professor Albert Lacson teaches courses that focus on race and ethnicity in US history, including Native American and African American history, race in early America, comparative slavery, and European-Indian relations in colonial North America. In his research, he seeks to illuminate the...
Professor
Email: lafontant@grinnell.edu
The Lafontant lab studies heart repair and regeneration in zebrafish and the giant danio with undergraduate students. In humans and adult mammals, cardiac injuries (heart attacks) result in permanent scarring of the heart muscle. This response to injury may lead to subsequent heart failure. However...
Professor
Emeritus
Gerald V. Lalonde is Professor Emeritus of Classics. He has been a long-time member of the Managing Committee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and a frequent research fellow at the School. His published scholarship has been chiefly in the fields of Greek epigraphy and Athenian...
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: lavanmak@grinnell.edu
Makeba Lavan is an assistant professor in English at ƽ. Generally speaking, her research focuses on (African) American Studies, Afrofuturism/Speculative Fiction and Popular Culture. In the fall of 2018, Makeba was granted a fellowship in the Womens, Gender and Sexuality department at...
Associate Professor
Director of Jazz Ensemble
Email: lavermark@grinnell.edu
Saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Mark Laver is an Associate Professor of Music at ƽ, where he directs the jazz band and teaches classes on jazz and popular music. As a performer, Professor Laver has shared the stage with such leading jazz and improvising artists as Lee Konitz...
Associate Professor
Email: leelogan@grinnell.edu
Logan Lee, Assistant Professor, received a B.A in Economics and Government from Augustana University and an M.S. and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Oregon. Professor Lee teaches courses in behavioral and experiment economics, the economics of crime, and econometrics. Much of his research...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: leejae@grinnell.edu
Jaehyuk Lee is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chinese and Japanese. His research examines the interplay between memory and political power, with a particular focus on the functions of literary writing within that dynamic. He investigates diverse premodern East Asian contexts...
Associate Professor
Email: legganse@grinnell.edu
Professor Leggans' primary responsibilities are teaching the introductory course and laboratories for Organic Chemistry (CHM 221-222) and General Chemistry (CHM 129). His research focus is in the semi and total synthesis of biologically active natural products and the development of new synthetic...
Professor
Email: levandos@grinnell.edu
We study the molecular pharmacology of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). These ligand-gated ion channels are the seat of nicotine addiction and are implicated in a wide range of other neurological abnormalities such as Parkinsons disease and attention disorders. Most recently, we...
Professor
Patricia A. Johnson Professor of Neuroscience
Email: lindgren@grinnell.edu
In my laboratory, we study the chemical synapse, a specialized connection where neurons communicate with neighboring cells such as sensory receptors, muscle cells, or other neurons. Our primary goal is to unravel the mechanisms through which the presynaptic cell regulates the release of its...
Applied Music Associate
Email: liuhsinh@grinnell.edu
Hsin-Hui Liu is a passionate performer who enjoys various musical career as a soloist, collaborative pianist, chamber musician, and educator. She has presented solo and collaborative recitals in Austria, Canada, China, Taiwan, and the United States. Liu holds a D.M.A in Piano Performance and...
Assistant Professor
Email: lomelit@grinnell.edu
Professor Timothy Lomeli (Ph.D., Florida State University) works on Francophone Caribbean studies, Afro-Caribbean religions, gender and sexuality, media studies, and translation. He is particularly interested in how cultural and textual representations intersect with practices of resistance and...
Professor
Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Natural Science and Mathematics
Email: lopatto@grinnell.edu
David Lopattos research on the psychology of learning and motivation has come to focus on the learning outcomes of undergraduate experiences in science, especially the effect of undergraduate research experience on student learning, career choice, and attitude. He is the author of several surveys...
Assistant Professor
Email: luxinchan@grinnell.edu
Xinchan Lu, Assistant Professor, received a B.S. in Economics at University of Washington and a Ph.D. in Economics at University of California, Riverside. Her course offerings include Macroeconomic Analysis and Money and Banking. Her research interests lie in macroeconomics and monetary economics...
Assistant Professor
Email: luoweiwei@grinnell.edu
I am a historian of China and East Asia. Both my research and teaching interests are rooted in the intersections of law, politics, religion, and economy. My current book project, The Common Good , studies the production of the modern Chinese polity through a new moral economy centered on public...
Professor
Department chair of Russian, Central European, and Eurasian Studies
Email: lussierd@grinnell.edu
Danielle N. Lussier is a professor of political science. Her research focuses on democratization, political participation, and religion and politics, with geographic expertise on post-communist Eurasia and Indonesia. She is the author of Constraining Elites in Russia and Indonesia: Political...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Luther and Jenny Erickson Professor of Chemistry
Email: lyons@grinnell.edu
Research: Professor Lyons' research interests center around a class of materials called electrolytes which are ion conducting solutions (liquids or solids). The topic encompasses physical characterization of ion transport with the application of electrochemical and spectroscopic techniques. A...
Assistant Professor
Email: macinnes@grinnell.edu
I use electrochemistry to study and design materials and interfaces. I am currently exploring two projects, both motivated by the broad goal of a cleaner, healthier Earth. The first project involves understanding heavy metal ion interactions with oxide surfaces. Understanding these interactions is...
Professor
Email: mackenzie@grinnell.edu
Michael Mac Mackenzie is professor of art history at ƽ. Prior to his arrival at ƽ, he taught for 18 years in the Department of Art and Art History at DePauw University in Indiana, and for three years at Wabash College in Indiana. Mackenzies special area of research is German...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: maharjanra@grinnell.edu
I am interested in investigating the hidden structure and the dipole moment distribution in liquid water and ice. Water is a polar molecule that interacts primarily via short-ranged hydrogen bonds. These strong directional hydrogen bonds adopt local tetrahedral geometries about each water molecule...
Assistant Professor
Email: martse@grinnell.edu
?ehrazats research and teaching focus on power and social change. Her primary research examines social mobilization during democratic backsliding, while her second research agenda examines exclusion in transnational knowledge production, including within academia. Currently, she is working on a...
Professor
Breid-McFarland Professor of Science
Email: marzluff@grinnell.edu
Professor Marzluff teaches Physical Chemistry (CHM 363, 364), General Chemistry (CHM 129), Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry (CHM 210) as well as the Policy Studies seminar (PST 320) and the Advanced Policy Research course (PST 420). Professor Marzluff's research focuses on the structure and dynamics...
Associate Professor
Email: maynardk@grinnell.edu
Kelly Maynard joined the faculty at ƽ in 2009 after teaching in the history and art history departments at Scripps College. Her current project, entitled Hearing Wagner in France at the Fin-de-Sicle: Music and the Interior World, is an interdisciplinary monograph building upon her doctoral...
Applied Music Associate
Voice
Email: maynetay@grinnell.edu
Taylor Mayne, an Iowa native, holds a Bachelor of Music in voice performance from the University of Iowa and an Master of Music in voice performance from Ohio University. He is currently on faculty at ƽ as an applied music associate in voice, and Drake University as a teaching artist...
Professor
Emeritus
Member, Peace and Conflict Studies Committee
Email: mcclel@grinnell.edu
Im a retired faculty member with a continuing research interest in Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) as a lens for understanding sociology. PCT provides an alternative view of human psychology that takes into account the feedback effects of our own actions on our perceptions of the world around us...
Associate Professor
Email: mcgavock@grinnell.edu
On leave 2024 - 2025 academic year. Tamara McGavock, Assistant Professor, received her B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University. Her teaching and research areas are development economics, economics of gender and the family, and microeconomic theory. She...
Professor
Director of ƽ Symphony Orchestra
Email: mcintyr2@grinnell.edu
Eric McIntyre maintains careers as a conductor, composer, instrumental performer, and educator. At ƽ he teaches music composition courses and directs the ƽ Symphony Orchestra. He has contributed to ƽ's Liberal Arts in Prison Program, for which he presented lectures...
Professor
Emeritus
Christopher Fulton McKee was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 14, 1935. In 1957, Mckee graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Houston and in 1960 he completed his Masters of Library Science at the University of Michigan. Since then, McKee has worked at various institutions of higher...
Associate Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: mease@grinnell.edu
Ellen directs and teaches European dramatic literature, criticism, theory, and theatre history from the Greeks to Beckett and Stoppard. She also teaches interdisciplinary Humanities classes on ancient Greece (HUM 101), Roman and early Christian culture (HUM 102), and medieval/Renaissance culture...
Professor
Email: mercadoa@grinnell.edu
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the languages antiquity. It didnt take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of...
Associate Professor
Email: michaeld@grinnell.edu
Deborah L. Michaels, Associate Professor of Education, teaches courses in History of Education, International and Comparative Education, General Teaching Methods, and Social Studies Methods. She also mentors student teachers receiving their secondary-school teaching license in any of the social...
Professor
Email: miletijo@grinnell.edu
Joe's research interests lie in mathematical logic, which is a field that develops tools to calibrate the complexity of various mathematical objects. By arguing that the objects guaranteed to exist by a theorem must be complicated, it is possible to conclude that any proof of that theorem must...
Emeritus
Email: millerce@grinnell.edu
Celeste Miller is a multi-faceted dance artist whose career includes solo performance, choreography, arts activism and animator of community art projects. Her unique performance style is a combination of spoken word and movement that plumbs narrative for physical imagery in juxtaposed connections...
Assistant Professor
Email: millerry@grinnell.edu
Ryan's statistical research interests involve penalized regression modeling approaches, which include well-known methods like the LASSO and elastic net, non-convex penalties such as MCP and SCAD and their variants, as well as structured approaches like the group LASSO. These models are attractive in...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: millerkr@grinnell.edu
Karie Miller (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator specializing in belonging, and the content, behavior, and containers that promote it, primarily through acts of care, play, and joy. She works with and against the existing theatrical canon and industry to explore non...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: minelli@grinnell.edu
Research Professor Minelli's research deals with the synthesis and characterization of molybdenum compounds. Molybdenum compounds act as catalysts for a number of processes, among them olefin metathesis, and molybdenum is also a cofactor in biological systems. The study of these complexes helps to...
Professor
Email: mobleyt@grinnell.edu
Research Professor Mobley's research interests involve the application of physical organic techniques to organometallic compounds. His current research involves the synthesis of transition metal stannylenes with particular interest in the synthesis of a novel class of these molecules in which the...
Emeritus
Email: moffett@grinnell.edu
Sandy Moffett joined the ƽ faculty in 1971 and teaches Acting, Directing and American Theatre. Although now Emeritus, he continues to teach and direct when called upon. He is also devoted to conservation and prairie restoration and has been responsible for the restoration and preservation of...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: mohamedsi@grinnell.edu
Sied Hassen Mohamed received a PhD degree in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Sweden, master's degree in development and environmental economics from University of Oslo, Norway and B.A degree in Economics from Addis Ababa University. Prior to my current position at ƽ, I was...
Professor
Email: moisan@grinnell.edu
Professor Philippe Moisan is from Brittany. He holds a D.E.U.G. in Literature and Visual Arts, and a Licence in Literature from the University of Caen (Normandy). He also has a M.A. and a PhD from Wahington University in Saint Louis. His research and teaching focus on fiction on the 19th and the...
Assistant Professor
Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator
Email: moisepet@grinnell.edu
Dr. Petrouchka Mo?se is Assistant Professor / Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator at ƽ Libraries. As an artist/scholar, she teaches classes on visual and material culture and curatorial studies, focusing on the Caribbean. In her role as Cultural and Community-Based Digital...
Assistant Professor
Email: mondalan@grinnell.edu
I am a chemical biologist and biocatalysis researcher whose work bridges organic chemistry, enzymology, and sustainable chemical design. My groups research focuses on creating new-to-nature enzyme systems by harnessing and engineering novel co-factors, both natural and synthetic, to address...
Senior Faculty
Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership
Email: montgome@grinnell.edu
Mark Montgomery is a Donald L. Wilson Professor of Enterprise and Leadership, and Professor of Economics, at ƽ. Mark teaches Mathematical Economics, the Economics of Education, and Environmental Economics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin C Madison in 1982. His...
Professor
Emeritus
Emily's research is in combinatorics. She has published papers in graph theory (where G is a graph, v is a vertex, and chi is the chromatic number of a graph) and in difference sets (where G is a group, v is the order of the group, and chi is a group character). Outside of work, Emily enjoys playing...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: mooret@grinnell.edu
My scholarship has mostly been in statistics education, where I have contributed journal articles, organized and participated in sessions and panels at national meetings, edited one book for the Mathematical Association of America, and participated and occasionally chaired committees of the MAA or...
Professor
George A. Drake Professor of Religious Studies
Email: rietz@grinnell.edu
Henry W. Morisada Rietz is a Professor of Religious Studies at ƽ and an alumnus of the College. He received his M.Div. and his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the associate editor of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. His...
Emeritus
Email: munyon@grinnell.edu
Paul Munyon, Associate Professor, earned his B.A. at Westmar College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard. He teaches accounting, finance and industrial organization. His current research focuses on challenges to finance theory posed by high-tech IPOs.
Emeritus
Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics
Email: mutti@grinnell.edu
John Jack Mutti, Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics, has a B.A. from Earlham College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He teaches and does research on international economics and public finance.
Assistant Professor
Email: navaco@grinnell.edu
Courtney Nava is an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Before her time at ƽ, she held a professorship at the State University of New York. Her research centers around the study of white racial resentment, racial bias, stereotypes, social identity, political tolerance, social movements...
Assistant Professor
Email: nglaura1@grinnell.edu
On research leave for the 2025-2026 Academic Year Laura W. Ng is a historical archaeologist with a research focus on the archaeology of transpacific migration and Asian diasporic communities. She conducts archaeological research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration and...
Assistant Professor
Email: ngbrandon@grinnell.edu
Dr. Ng completed his PhD in social psychology at the University of Virginia, and he earned his undergraduate degree in psychology and English literature, with a minor in economics, at Northwestern University. His research implements a cultural and social psychological approach to understand the...
Assistant Professor
Email: ngcherry@grinnell.edu
Cherry works in algebraic topology, a field that studies spaces with a flexible notion of size and distance. One of her research interests is computing invariants for spaces that have symmetry governed by a group action. Another area of interest is the structure of model categories on lattices...
Assistant Professor
Email: noltecollin@grinnell.edu
Collin's PhD studies included both mathematics and biostatistics, and his research interests involve developing more robust methods for modeling repeated measures and time-series data, particularly as it relates to eye-tracking. His PhD work included development of the `bdots` software, or the...
Assistant Professor
Email: nunezso@grinnell.edu
Sophia Blea N?ez has research interests in literature and cultural history of the early modern Hispanic world, book history, early modern race and religion, and gender and sexuality studies. They earned their PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University and have since held a postdoctoral...
Associate Professor
Email: ohrneric@grinnell.edu
On leave 2024-2025 academic year. Eric Ohrn, Associate Professor, received a B.A in Math and Economics at ƽ and Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan. Professor Ohrns teaching focuses on the areas Public Finance, Corporate Finance, and Accounting. His research examines...
Assistant Professor
Email: ongshawn@grinnell.edu
My research lies in the field of the theory of computation. Roughly speaking, this means I ask questions like "which problems are harder than others, and can we prove that this is true?" One can then further ask questions such as "Is this problem (efficiently) solvable in a certain framework of...
Email: ooredani@grinnell.edu
Daniel Oore is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, teacher, and scholar. As a featured sound artist, instrumentalist, composer-arranger, actor, and dancer, working in major venues across North America, Europe, Australia, and beyond, Danis collaborations have garnered accolades from leading...
Associate Professor
Peter-Michael Osera received his B.S. in Computer Science and Applied and Computational Math Sciences and B.A. in the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington in 2006 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He is currently an...
Professor
Emeritus
Russell K. Osgood graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 1969 with exceptional distinction in history. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1969-71, returned to Yale in 1971, edited the Yale Law Review and received the J.D. degree in 1974. He entered private practice in Boston, became associate professor...
Assistant Professor
Email: pakermer@grinnell.edu
Meredith Paker, Assistant Professor, received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Georgia and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Economic History from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College), where she was a Marshall Scholar. Professor Pakers research and teaching areas are economic history, labor...
Associate Professor
Email: palmerja@grinnell.edu
James A. Palmer graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in history in 2000 and completed an M.A. in history at Duke University in 2002 before leaving academia to (among other things) do archaeological fieldwork, sling coffee, cook for a living, and then work as a fraud investigator...
Assistant Professor
Email: papaioannou@grinnell.edu
Orestis Papaioannou is an assistant professor in the Psychology department. They are particularly interested in the neural mechanisms behind working memory and attention, as well as applying electrophysiological approaches to novel questions. From 2015 to 2021 they worked with Dr. Steve Luck...
Instructor
Email: parisvin@grinnell.edu
The majority of my personal research interest has been in experimental design, specifically bias reduction methods in both factorial and response surface settings. My more classical research interest deals with extending the foldover method in experimental design to non-binary factors as well as...
Professor
Email: paulhusj@grinnell.edu
Jen works in a field of math called arithmetic geometry. Her research blends ideas from geometry, algebra, and number theory. And no, it doesn't mean that she is any good at arithmetic. Her research has taken her all over the world, most recently to Chile where she spent 3 months as a Fulbright...
Director of Academic Technology
Email: pelzelmo@grinnell.edu
Morris Pelzel is the Director of Academic Technology for ƽ. Mo earned the Ph.D in religious studies from the Catholic University of America, and for twelve years was a full-time faculty member at Saint Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana, where he offered a wide range of courses in...
Lecturer
Writing Laboratory Assistant
Originally from Mexico City, David earned his bachelor degree in English from the University of Iowa and his MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State, where he was a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow and fiction editor for the literary journal Flyway. He has taught college writing for seven years...
Professor
Email: perezm@grinnell.edu
Professor Prez hails from San Pedro Sula, Honduras via New Orleans, La. She loves introducing students to early modern texts and integrating digital humanities assignments in her courses. In her free time Professor Prez paints and spends time with her family. She is proud to call ƽ...
Professor
Director of Zimbabwean Mbira Ensemble
Email: permanan@grinnell.edu
Tony Perman (ethnomusicology) is a specialist in the music of Zimbabwe and the semiotics of music and emotion. He has received degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (PhD), the School of Oriental and African Studies in London (MMus), and Kenyon College (BA). Before coming to...
Associate Professor
Email: petrusjo@grinnell.edu
John Petrus received his PhD from Ohio State University in 2015. His research is centered around questions of sexual and racial difference in Latinx and Latin American audio-visual media and life narratives. His primary focus is US Latine/x creative works on experiences of the HIV/AIDS crisis. His...
Associate Professor
Email: phanhai@grinnell.edu
Hai-Dang Phan has taught ethnic American literature, the craft of poetry, introduction to literary analysis, and studies in genre (the essay). He is a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Creative Writing. His poems have been published in The New Yorker , Poetry , Best American Poetry 2016...
Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Curriculum and Academic Programs
Email: phillipsn@grinnell.edu
Nick Phillips received his PhD from Indiana University in 2014. His dissertation, titled Space and the City: Peripheral Communities of Madrid and Barcelona, focused on the production and representation of suburban spaces in contemporary Spanish detective fiction. His research and scholarly...
Assistant Professor
Email: poetzlvi@grinnell.edu
Viktoria P?tzls research explores the global relationship between gender, nation, and belonging. Before coming to ƽ in fall 2019, she taught German studies, Jewish studies, and German language for over a decade in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. P?tzls current and second book project...
Emerita
Email: powelli@grinnell.edu
Irene Powell is Professor of Economics at ƽ. She teaches Econometrics, the Economics of Developing Countries, Health Economics, and the Economics of Gender. Irene received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin C Madison in 1985. She has done research in the areas such as the...
Professor
Email: praitis@grinnell.edu
Developmental Genetics and Cell Biology Directed changes in the shape of epithelial sheets are required to create many of the major tissues in animals, including the intestinal system, kidneys, lungs, and skin. Although our understanding of epithelial sheet morphogenesis has advanced in recent years...
Associate Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Email: preastva@grinnell.edu
Vanessa Preast earned a PhD in Education, with an emphasis on Curriculum and Instructional Technology, from Iowa State University and a Doctorate of V eterinary Medicine (DVM) from University of Florida. Vanessa is passionate about excellence in teaching and learning within college environments so...
Professor
Email: prevoste@grinnell.edu
Elizabeth Prevost, Frederick L. Baumann Professor of History, is a historian of modern Britain and the Empire/Commonwealth; colonial Africa; global Christianity; women and gender; and reading, publishing, and literary celebrity. She is the author of The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in...
Lecturer
Writing Laboratory Assistant
Email: pricetay@grinnell.edu
Taylor holds a PhD in political science (with concentrations in African politics, international relations, and gender and womens studies). She especially enjoys working with students on brainstorming, long-term writing projects, and applications for grad school, awards, and internships.
Professor
L.F. Parker Professor of History
Email: purcelsj@grinnell.edu
Sarah Purcell, L.F. Parker Professor of History, graduated from ƽ with a B.A. in history in 1992. She went on to earn an A.M. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1997) from Brown University. She joined the faculty of ƽ in 2000 after teaching at Central Michigan University. Ms. Purcell's research...
Lecturer
Email: putridew@grinnell.edu
Dewa Ayu Eka Putri is a Balinese artist-anthropologist and is currently a Lecturer of Dance at ƽ. She teaches courses on Balinese Dance and Performing Arts, specializing in traditional and contemporary dance styles. Putri also maintains her position as dance instructor at the...
Lecturer
Email: queathem@grinnell.edu
Comparative physiology and functional morphology; exercise physiology & psychology I was originally trained as a comparative physiologist and functional morphologist, but since coming to Iowa, I have become increasingly focused on human exercise. I am interested in how people feel when they exercise...
Associate Professor
Email: quinsaat@grinnell.edu
Sharon Quinsaat is a scholar of social movements and migration and currently Associate Professor of Sociology at ƽ. She has conducted research using both qualitative and quantitative methods and published on a wide range of topics, including migrant conservatism, diaspora formation...
Professor
Email: quintero@grinnell.edu
As the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company, Craig has written and directed over fifty original image-based performances, including productions in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, France, Germany, the United States, and England. He is also a sculptor and installation...
Associate Professor
Email: ralstonc@grinnell.edu
Chris Ralston is a licensed psychologist in the state of Iowa. Broadly, his research has focused on measurement of psychological constructs and traits. For most of his research career, he focused on factors predictive of sexual recidivism amongst individuals with historical sexual offenses. That...
Applied Music Associate
Lecturer
Percussion
Stacey Bostwick-Ramirez is currently a faculty member at ƽ and Des Moines Area Community College. She has presented clinics for the Percussive Arts Society and the Illinois Summer Youth Music Festival. Stacey maintains a private teaching studio at Rieman Music and her students have...
Professor
Email: rebelsky@grinnell.edu
I study a variety of issues near the intersections of computing for the arts, media computation, functional programming, computers in education, computer science education, and accessibility. I also care deeply about broadening participation in computing. These days, my students and I are exploring...
Lecturer
Email: rebelskyw@grinnell.edu
William came to ƽ in 2024 and is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Williams primary research focuses on improvements to Intelligent Tutoring Systems, or AI driven tools to provide personalized practice and assistance to students who are...
Assistant Professor
Discovery, Systems, & Digital Strategy Librarian
Email: reedkayla@grinnell.edu
Kayla Reeds research and teaching focuses on diversity and LGBTQ+ issues, with a focus on Asexuality, intersection, and cooperation of library departments, as well as emotional labor in the workforce. She attended Missouri Southern State University where she got her BA in Theatre, English...
Associate Professor
Email: rempelcl@grinnell.edu
I use behavioral and neuroanatomical techniques to study the role of prefrontal cortex in emotion and memory. My current work focuses on understanding the contributions of distinct regions of the rat prefrontal cortex to emotional memory.
Professor
Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages
Email: reynolds@grinnell.edu
Daniel Reynolds has taught in the German studies department at ƽ since 1998. His recent book, Postcards from Auschwitz (NYU Press, 2018), explores the relationship between tourism and Holocaust remembrance, a topic he has been researching since 2007. His book looks at the ways museums...
Assistant Professor
Email: reznickj@grinnell.edu
Jordan Reznick is a photo historian and photographer who researches Native North American, settler colonial, and transgender histories of photography. His current research examines how Indigenous ecological science shaped nineteenth-century landscape photographs in California. Reznick was 2022-2023...
Associate Professor
Email: riveraal@grinnell.edu
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera 06 is Assistant Professor of Art History at ƽ, where they teach classes on modern and contemporary architecture and urban visual culture, as well as the art of the Americas, with a focus on the Caribbean. Professor Riveras research...
Associate Professor
Emeritus
Plants, like animals, begin life as a single cell, the fertilized egg or zygote. This single cell undergoes growth, cell division and differentiation to produce an embryo, or immature plant. This developmental process is called embryogenesis. Since all cells of the embryo are produced through...
Associate Professor
Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian
Email: rodrigue8@grinnell.edu
Liz Rodrigues is Associate Professor, Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian. Lizs research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of critical digital studies, digital humanities practice, and twentieth-century multiethnic U.S. literatures. Her book, Collecting Lives: Critical Data...
Associate Professor
Email: rodriguezl@grinnell.edu
Research Interests Conformal Symmetries and Black Holes Gravity/CFT Correspondence String Theory & Quantum Gravity Generalized Complex Geometries and String Theory Geometry and Topology of Physics
Assistant Professor
Email: rodriguezs@grinnell.edu
Research Interests: Black hole Thermodynamics and Phenomenology, Duality between Gravity theory and Condensed Matter Physics, Plasma Astrophysics, Numerical General Relativity
Professor
Blanche Johnson Professor of Music
Email: rommer@grinnell.edu
John Rommereim is a musician who has pursued a varied career as a composer, conductor, keyboardist, and professor. He has written works for choir, solo voice, orchestra, string quartet, saxophone quartet, flute ensemble, guitar, organ, piano, and electronic media, as well as a chamber opera, and...
Associate Professor
Email: roperjm@grinnell.edu
Monty Roper is a cultural anthropologist interested in the political economy of natural resource management, indigenous social movements, non-governmental organizations, and community development. His research has focused on small-scale rural indigenous and agricultural communities in Latin America...
Writing Center Instructor
Email: rudolphw@grinnell.edu
Prior to joining the Writing, Reading, and Speaking Center in 2016, Bill taught AP English, humanities, and other writing and literature courses at ƽ High School. Billwho wrote his masters thesis on the poetry of alumnus Edward Hirsch 72has published poems in Barrow Street, Midwest Review...
Assistant Professor
Email: ruiterjo@grinnell.edu
Joshua studies algebraic groups, which are kind of like houseboats. A houseboat is both a house and a boat, so building one involves solving engineering problems common to houses (plumbing) and problems common to boats (floating). Additional complications emerge from the interplay of the two...
Associate Professor
Email: sabaelia@grinnell.edu
Elias G. Saba received his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. He was awarded the British Association of Islamic Studies C De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World in 2018 for his dissertation. His first monograph...
Associate Professor
Department chair of General Science
Email: SANDQUIS@grinnell.edu
Research Approach As a Center for Xenopus Research (a fabricated distinction, but it sounds cool), the Sandquist lab uses a combination of molecular, biochemical, and cell biological approaches to study various aspects of cell division in the frog embryo. Not just any frog, mind you. We use that...
Assistant Professor
Email: sanouaguibou@grinnell.edu
Sanou hails from Burkina Faso, West Africa, and is a dancer, choreographer, musician, storyteller, and director of the In-Out Dance Festival in Burkina Faso. He is a winner of the highly selective and prestigious U.S. State Department Scholarship Fulbright 2018C2019 where he taught "History and...
Senior Faculty
Email: savarese@grinnell.edu
Professor Savarese has been on the faculty at ƽ for 24 years. He has also taught at Deerfield Academy, Keene State College, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, the University of Florida, Duke University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago. In 2012-2013, he was a fellow at Duke Universitys...
Associate Professor
Science Librarian
Email: schlesselman@grinnell.edu
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is an interdisciplinary librarian and scholar who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. Her work has appeared in Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: schneidm@grinnell.edu
Mark has taught nearly every course in the physics major curriculum, and developed complete curricular materials for four of them (General Physics I & II, Mechanics, and Computational Physics). He has published articles on much of this curricular development work. His scholarly interests are wide...
Emeritus
F Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Email: schrift@grinnell.edu
Alan Schrifts scholarship focuses on 19th- and 20th-century French and German philosophy. In addition to over 80 published articles or book chapters on Nietzsche and 20th-century European philosophy, he is the author of Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers (Blackwell 2006...
Senior Faculty
Email: scottk1@grinnell.edu
Words of Appreciation She is an internationally renowned Diversity Trainer/Consultant, an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at ƽ, and an award-winning writer. Kesho was a founding member of International Capacity Building Services, a cultural competency training...
Emerita
Email: seiz@grinnell.edu
Janet Seiz, Associate Professor, has a B.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. She teaches economic development and income distribution courses, and is researching feminist economics and economic methodology.
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
My research focuses on cultural interactions between Japanese and Koreans in the process of decolonization across a wide range of media, including literature, theater, and performance, with a particular interest in the history of Zainichi KoreansKoreans who migrated to Japan under Japanese colonial...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: sharpe@grinnell.edu
Professor Sharpe is interested in the development of environmental chemical sensors based on fluorescent, powdered, semiconductor materials. He and his students have found that these materials indicate the presence of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide (precursor of acid rain) by the decrease in the...
Associate Professor
Email: sheaeire@grinnell.edu
Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at ƽ, where she offers classes on the arts of pre-modern Asia. Her book, Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020) focuses on textiles and dress of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth...
Assistant Professor
Email: shookjen@grinnell.edu
Jen Shook is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, whose practice lives at the intersections of dramaturgy, directing, literature, cultural memory, Indigenous studies, community engagement, and digital liberal arts. She previously taught at ƽ as a Fellow in the...
Professor
Email: shumank@grinnell.edu
When Karen went to college, she was convinced that she would be an English and history double major. Her first-year proof-based calculus class changed her plans completely. The main courses she teaches at ƽ are related to analysis, her area of expertise. She has published papers on signal...
Associate Professor
Email: sieckste@grinnell.edu
Professor Sieck's research is focused on the development of new synthetic organic methodology to generate biologically active molecules. Link to Summer 2014 Research Description
Associate Professor
Email: silvajp@grinnell.edu
Mr. Silva came to ƽ from the University of Chicago where he wrote a dissertation on Chilean middle-class unions. Mr. Silva's work examines how the middle class contributed to the rise of powerful leftist parties in Chile. These research interests show up in the courses he teaches on U.S...
Professor
Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities
Email: simpsone@grinnell.edu
Erik Simpson's literature courses focus on British writing from Shakespeare to the present, especially the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His primary research field is British and transatlantic literature of the Romantic period. He was the Principal Investigator for ƽ...
Associate Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: sinnett@grinnell.edu
The general goal of my research program is to document the dynamic functioning of personality across different social situations. Specifically, I am interested in (a) the extent to which personality traits wax and wane across timeboth short- and long-term, (b) predicting these changes in...
Professor
Email: smithp@grinnell.edu
Paula Vene Smiths recent publications include Refashioning Diary Studies: The Tradition of Black Womens Diaries in a/b: Autobiography Studies and (forthcoming) Day Today: Circadian Rhythms and the Sense of Unending in Poetic Diaries by Gertrude Stein and Harryette Mullen in the Journal of...
Applied Music Associate
Guitar
Email: smithrex@grinnell.edu
Pat Smith started playing guitar in 1969 and began teaching in 1974. Growing up in the Chicago area he has always been deeply into Blues and R&B music. Attended two years at Coe College playing in the jazz band and show choir. Graduated from Cornell College in 1987. Many years of professional...
Lecturer
Email: snookjen@grinnell.edu
I was born and grew up in Germany as an Army brat. I spent most of my childhood there, but after traveling the U.S., I consider Colorado my home. I received my B.A. from the University of Augusta, in Georgia while my dad was stationed at Fort Gordon. I moved to Colorado and received my Ph.D. from...
Digital Liberal Arts Specialist
Email: steelber@grinnell.edu
Tierney Steelberg (she/her) supports ƽians in their digital endeavors: working with colleagues in the DLAC, she helps students, faculty, and staff with digital projects of all kinds. Get in touch with Tierney if youd like help exploring a new digital method (such as mapping or digital...
Applied Music Associate
Horn
Email: stoutama@grinnell.edu
Amanda Stout graduated with her BM in horn performance, BA in studio arts, and BA in arts management at the University of Iowa where she studied with Jeffrey Agrell. She received her MM in horn performance from Western Michigan University where she studied with Lin Foulk Baird and actively performed...
Emerita
Email: straubes@grinnell.edu
Susan Strauber is professor of art history with senior faculty status. For much of her career, her scholarship was concerned with the historical and critical examination of the paintings of Eug?ne Delacroix; the problematic estate stamp on Delacroix drawings and the construction of Delacroix's...
Assistant Professor
Email: struckchris@grinnell.edu
After studying Philosophy, German Literature, and Law in Bonn, Paris, and Berlin, Christian defended his PhD in German Literature at Harvard University in 2022, where he has worked as a Postdoctoral College Fellow until joining ƽ in the Fall of 2024. In his research, Christian focuses on the...
Professor
Emeritus
Cell Biology / Developmental Biology I am interested in the formation of sensory structures during neural development in vertebrate embryos. Most of my work with students at ƽ has focused on lens formation in chicken embryos (a lens from a four day old embryo is shown in Figure 1). We have...
Assistant Professor
Email: sunxiaox@grinnell.edu
Wendy Sun is Assistant Professor of German Studies at ƽ. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature along with dual M.A. degrees in English, Comparative Literature and World Literature, and a B.A. in Chinese Studies. Her research explores transnational memory, trauma, and exile, with...
Assistant Professor
Email: suttonnic@grinnell.edu
I am broadly interested in all questions regarding decision-making in animal behavior. In particular, I am interested in how information encoded in the environment is gathered, shared, and otherwise used by animals to inform individual decision-making, and consequently how decisions made at the...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: swartz@grinnell.edu
Director of the 1995-1997 and 2005-2008 Noyce Science Center Renovation and Expansion Projects. Dean of the College and Vice President of Academic Affairs, 1998-2008. Chair of the Science Division, 1990-1994. Legislative Aide in the Washington D.C. office of Representative Claudine Schneider of...
Associate Professor
Email: tangqiao@grinnell.edu
Trained a literary scholar, my research and teaching engage a diverse array of literary texts from pre-modern China. I am particularly interested in the relationships between gender and genre, literature and politics, and poetry and painting of medieval China. My first book project, based on my...
Professor
Email: tapias@grinnell.edu
On Leave fall 2022 through spring 2023. Maria Tapias earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and has been teaching at ƽ since 2001. Her research interests include women's and infants' health, the anthropology of emotions, the impacts of neoliberalism on...
Assistant Professor
Email: tavaresn@grinnell.edu
Nicky Tavares is a multimedia arti st whos e work sheds light on systemic inequalities through personal storytelling. Her work has evolved through an array of media C photography, film, video, animation, sculpture, VR 360, as well as across film genres and presentation formats such as documentary...
Professor
Email: thomasjm@grinnell.edu
Justin Thomas is Professor of Theatre and Design in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at ƽ. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and Communication from Kalamazoo College. In...
Professor
Email: tjossem@grinnell.edu
Research interests include non-linear laser spectrometry, trace atom and molecule detection, and electromagnetic puzzles. Selected Research Students & Projects V. Cornejo '98 "Thomson's Jumping Ring" K. Ni '09 "Computed Tomography and the Radon Transform" F. Friesen '10 "FPGA" E. C. Brost '10...
Assistant Professor
Email: torralbas@grinnell.edu
Dr. stef torralba is Assistant Professor of English and Gender, Womens, and Sexuality Studies at ƽ. Their pedagogy centers the intellectual lessons of queer studies; trans studies; queer and trans of color critique; crip and mad studies; critical and comparative race and ethnic...
Associate Professor
Associate Dean for Student Academic Life
Email: tracyand@grinnell.edu
My primary research interest is ingestive behavior - specifically, the role of learning in food choice and food motivation, with a particular focus on how these influence, and are influenced by, obesity. My lab uses a rat model to study the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying these processes...
Assistant Professor
Email: tricoire@grinnell.edu
Professor Marion Tricoire (Ph.D., Emory University) is a teacher and scholar of African Literature and of the Francophone world. Her research interests include Sub-Saharan African literature, Francophone studies, urban humanities, postcolonial literatures, migration and diaspora studies, and...
Professor
Email: trimmere@grinnell.edu
Professor Trimmer is interested in the structure and mechanism of enzymes. Her research has focused on enzymes that perform oxidation/reduction reactions using the coenzyme flavin.
Professor
Email: trish@grinnell.edu
Professor of Political Science, with a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Ms. Trish is a generalist in U.S. politics, with political parties, electoral politics and technology frequently at the intersection of her teaching and scholarship. Her book Inside the Bubble (with Bill Menner, Routledge)...
Professor
Sidney Meyer Endowed Professor of International Economics
Email: utarhale@grinnell.edu
H?le Utar is a Professor of Economics at ƽ and holds the Sidney Meyer Endowed Chair in International Economics. She is also a Research Fellow at IZA, CESifo, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin, and serves as an Associate Editor at The Review of International Economics. She earned her...
Assistant Professor
Email: vegaalex@grinnell.edu
Alexander Vegas research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with an emphasis on philosophy of friendship. He is especially interested in the relationship between friendship and belief in the work of the early Christian philosopher Augustine of Hippo. In such works as On the Usefulness...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: vetter@grinnell.edu
Javanese gamelan music is Vetter's primary research area. He has carried out research on this subject in the central Javanese city of Yogyakarta during several visits between 1973 and 2017. These research visits have resulted in published articles on Javanese musical traditions in journals such as...
Assistant Professor
Director, ƽ-in-London
Donna Vinter, adjunct professor of English literature and Resident Site Director, spent a formative year in London as a graduate student working in the British Library to complete a thesis on English medieval drama. Within a year of obtaining her Ph.D in English Literature from Harvard University...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: VISHEVSK@grinnell.edu
Anatoly Vishevsky taught at Washington University in St. Louis and was a faculty member at the Middlebury College Summer Russian School. He came to ƽ in 1994, and has taught all levels of our language sequence, Russian literature in translation, tutorials, and a number of senior...
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...
Professor
Emeritus
Email: walker@grinnell.edu
Distinguished Educator, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2013 Award for Lifetime Service to the Computer Science Community by ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 10 textbooks over 70 columns for ACM/SIGCSE Inroads over 165 published papers, articles, reports...
Visiting Instructor
Professor of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University
Email: wanglei@grinnell.edu
Courses: ?Beginning Chinese ?Intermediate Chinese ?Advanced Chinese
Instructor
Email: webblin@grinnell.edu
Lindsey Webb is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at ƽ, teaching courses in poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid writing. She is the author of the poetry collection Plat (Archway Editions), which was named a best poetry book of 2024 by The New York Times Book...
Assistant Professor
Email: websterjoe@grinnell.edu
Joe is a mathematician specializing in p-adic numbers, combinatorics, and mathematical physics, though he is generally interested in finding connections between these subjects and other areas of mathematics. He is currently working on asymptotic problems involving homogeneous spaces, gauge theories...
Associate Professor
Email: weinman@grinnell.edu
Courses Taught CSC 105: The Digital Age CSC 151: Functional Problem Solving with Scheme CSC 207: Algorithms and Object-Oriented Design CSC 213: Operating Systems and Parallel Algorithms CSC 261: Artificial Intelligence CSC 295: Computer Vision Primary Academic Interests Computer Vision, Machine...
Assistant Professor
Email: wellsjon@grinnell.edu
Jonathan is a probabilist and mathematical statistician whose research interests lie in random matrix theory, a discipline that originally arose from an interest in estimating the covariance matrix of a random sample obtained from a multivariate population, and which now finds use across several...
Visiting Instructor
Email: wellskaty@grinnell.edu
Katy is teaching a Wilson Center short course in the fall 2023 semester titled Creating Marketing Campaigns. She is owner and brand consultant at Double You Marketing, Inc, running project-based marketing campaigns from strategy through implementation. Before starting her own business, she developed...
Applied Music Associate
Lecturer
Piano
Dr. Melinda Westphalen received her Bachelor or Music degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, where she studied with Professor Robert Lawrence. She went on to receive both her Master of Arts and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Iowa, where she...
Professor
Senior Faculty
Email: whittake@grinnell.edu
John Whittaker (BA Cornell U. 1975, PHD U. of Arizona 1984) has been teaching at ƽ since 1984. He considers himself an anthropological archaeologist, which means that while he prefers working with ancient people, he considers himself free to snoop into any aspect of human life, and all people...
Professor
Emerita
Non-Teaching
Email: willis@grinnell.edu
Before joining the ƽ faculty in 1991, Professor Willis taught political science and political economy at Boston College and Tulane University. Her research focuses on Latin American politics and her work has appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research...
Associate Professor
Kesho Scott Chair
Email: willisjo@grinnell.edu
I am a scholar of the history of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds whose research explores themes of performance, labor, and heritage. I earned my Ph.D. in History from Emory University and have held fellowships at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American...
Associate Professor
Royce studies spherical virtual knots, a concept defined and explored by his summer research students. Characterizing these knots relies on interplay between combinatorics, topology and algebra. Royce plays piano and gives recitals on a regular basis, both solo and with others. He provides...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: yengides@grinnell.edu
Waves and oscillation patterns are found at all levels of biological organization, from cellular to supracellular and even social organisms. For instance, the rhythmic beating of the heart is driven by intricate spatiotemporal distribution of the oscillatory signals in cardiac pacemaker cells, while...
Associate Professor
Email: youssef@grinnell.edu
Mervat Youssef is Associate Professor of Arabic. She holds a B.S. from the University of Helwan in Cairo, an M.S. from South Dakota State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include media constructions of identity, especially in relation to news coverage of...
Visiting Instructor
Email: yuedanni@grinnell.edu
Danni Yues research focuses on second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, Japanese phonetics, and language learning mechanisms. She is particularly interested in the role of autonomous learning strategies such as shadowing, extensive reading, and dictationin Japanese language acquisition...
Professor
Emerita
Email: zirkle@grinnell.edu
Merle Zirkle taught at ƽ for thirty two years, retiring from teaching in the spring of 2000 after having been a full professor of art since 1989. During her tenure she taught ceramics, design, jewelry and sculpture. Prior to 1986 she shared a teaching appointment with her husband...