Grinnell College

Grinnell, IA
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    337 faculty · 0 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Faculty216 faculty avg h-index 11.8
    K. Gibel Mevorach, Emeritus h-index 2
    Notable: “Race, racism, and academic complicity” (2007) · 9 citations
    Adey Almohsen, Senior Lecturer
    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...
    Aguibou Bougobali SANOU, Assistant Professor
    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 2018–2019 where he taught "History and...
    Ahmad Barhoumi, Assistant Professor
    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 Grinnell College...
    Chemistry19 faculty avg h-index 10.5 #20 of 21 in Chemistry
    Martin Minelli, Professor Emeritus h-index 20
    Notable: “The nuclear magnetic resonance properties of chromium, molybdenum and tungsten compounds” (1985) · 155 citations
    Leslie J Lyons, Professor Senior Faculty h-index 19
    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 techni
    Notable: “Highly Conductive Siloxane Polymers” (2001) · 147 citations
    Elaine M Marzluff, Professor h-index 13
    Es on the structure and dynamics of peptides and proteins in both solution and gas phase. With support from NSF-TUES program, she is working to develop modular curricular materials for physical chemistry that introduce studen
    Notable: “Deuterium Exchange Reactions as a Probe of Biomolecule Structure. Fundamental Studies of Gas Phase H/D Exchange Reactions of Protonated Glycine Oligomers with D2O, CD3OD, CD3CO2D, and ND3” (1995) · 310 citations
    T Andrew Mobley, Professor h-index 12
    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
    Notable: “Selective Intermolecular Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation by Synthetic Metal Complexes in Homogeneous Solution” (1995) · 1,451 citations
    Economics18 faculty avg h-index 9.5 #95 of 104 in Economics
    Mark Montgomery, Senior Faculty h-index 30
    Notable: “A two-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial of dornase alfa in young patients with cystic fibrosis with mild lung function abnormalities” (2001) · 302 citations
    Hâle Utar, Professor h-index 13
    Notable: “International competition and industrial evolution: Evidence from the impact of Chinese competition on Mexican maquiladoras” (2013) · 121 citations
    William D. Ferguson, Senior Faculty h-index 12
    Notable: “Epistemic forms and Epistemic Games: Structures and Strategies to Guide Inquiry” (1993) · 364 citations
    Eric Ohrn, Associate Professor h-index 11
    Notable: “The Effect of Corporate Taxation on Investment and Financial Policy: Evidence from the DPAD” (2018) · 197 citations
    Sociology16 faculty avg h-index 10 #38 of 39 in Sociology
    Karla A. Erickson, Professor h-index 21
    Notable: “Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care” (2011) · 513 citations
    Susan J. Ferguson, Professor h-index 17
    Notable: “Intersectionality and Social-Reproduction Feminisms” (2016) · 166 citations
    Ross Haenfler, Professor h-index 12
    Es on how people engage in social change as participants in subcultures and loosely organized social movements. Since most people do not consider themselves “activists,” he is interested in how they create changes in their own lives that re
    Notable: “Lifestyle Movements: Exploring the Intersection of Lifestyle and Social Movements” (2012) · 393 citations
    Kent McClelland, Professor Emeritus h-index 11
    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. Behavi
    Notable: “The collective control of perceptions: constructing order from conflict” (2003) · 89 citations
    Government13 faculty avg h-index 4.9 #95 of 100 in Political Science
    Leif Brottem, Associate Professor h-index 11
    Es 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, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
    Danielle N Lussier, Professor h-index 8
    Es 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 Participation a
    Eliza Willis, Professor Emerita h-index 6
    Es on Latin American politics and her work has appeared in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review and World Politics. Her current research focuses on the impact of decentralization and intergove
    Peter Hanson, Associate Professor h-index 5
    Computer Science12 faculty avg h-index 8.2 #81 of 88 in Computer Science
    Henry M. Walker, Professor Emeritus h-index 17
    Notable: “A revised model curriculum for a liberal arts degree in computer science” (1996) · 73 citations
    Jerod Weinman, Professor h-index 15
    Ed in summer 2018 research? Learn more here. Research Interests I am interested in visual learning, especially inducing properties of the environment, i.e. what are relevant features? what is an appropriate model of reasoning for a visual t
    Notable: “Scene Text Recognition Using Similarity and a Lexicon with Sparse Belief Propagation” (2009) · 181 citations
    Charlie Curtsinger, Associate Professor h-index 10
    Notable: “ZOZZLE: fast and precise in-browser JavaScript malware detection” (2011) · 266 citations
    Samuel A. Rebelsky, Professor h-index 9
    Notable: “What We Say vs. What They Do” (2017) · 46 citations

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    About Grinnell College. Grinnell College in Grinnell, IA reports an overall acceptance rate of 14.5%, an early-round acceptance rate of 34.7%, an SAT middle 50% of 1410–1530, a class size of 438, and a yield of 31.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Self-governance tradition and open curriculum with no distribution requirements. One of the wealthiest LACs per student ($2B+ endowment for ~1,700 students), enabling generous need-blind aid.