Faculty at Grinnell College

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Faculty

• Daniel H Kaiser, Professor h-index 34
  Kaiser has taught at Grinnell 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....
• Jennifer Michaels, Professor h-index 32
• Vincent Eckhart, Professor h-index 27
  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
• David Harrison, Professor h-index 22
  Es on the literature and culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in France. He is the principal translator and co-editor of La Princesse de Clèves by Lafayette: A New Translation and Bilingual Pedagogical Edition for the D
• Eun Young Seong, Assistant Professor h-index 21
  Eun Young Seong is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Grinnell College. Her research examines cultural interactions between Koreans and Japanese in the process of decolonization across a range of media, including literature, theater, film, and performance...
• Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor h-index 18
  Stephanie P. Jones, Ph.D. is an associate Professor of Education at Grinnell College, where she teaches courses in Youth Culture, Young Adult Literature and Introduction to Educational Studies. Her two research strands examine Black women’s literacy practices and the exploration of racialized trauma...
• Alan D. Schrift, Emeritus h-index 14
  Alan Schrift’s 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...
• Jeffrey Blanchard, Professor h-index 13
  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...
• Paul Hutchison, Professor h-index 12
  Es on issues of equity in collaborative small group work in science classrooms. He enjoys working with students on research projects related to that focus. Education and Degrees B.A. in Physics, Cornell College M.S. in Physics, University o
• Ryan Miller, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  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 mo
• Clark A Lindgren, Professor h-index 11
  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...
• Pascal Lafontant, Professor h-index 10
  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....
• Joshua C. Sandquist, Associate Professor h-index 9
  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...
• Carolyn Jacobson, Senior Lecturer h-index 8
• Elizabeth (Liz) Rodrigues, Associate Professor h-index 8
  Liz Rodrigues is Associate Professor, Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian. Liz’s 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...
• John Fennell, Professor h-index 8
• Shonda Kuiper, Professor h-index 8
  Professor Kuiper’s courses at Grinnell 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...
• Arnold Adelberg, Professor h-index 8
  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
• Brigittine M. French, Professor h-index 7
  Es on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative, testimonial discourse, violence, gender, rights, and democratic state institutions in post-war nations. Her first book, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Righ
• Emily H Moore, Professor h-index 7
  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...
• Joseph Neisser, Professor h-index 7
• Vicki Bentley-Condit, Emeritus h-index 6
  Mother-infant relationships and infant development. However, her most recent research has been focused upon baboon nutrition and laboratory analyses of food samples from a wild population of baboons in Kenya conducted at the Smith
• Laura Ng, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  On the archaeology of Asian diasporic communities. She conducts archaeological research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration, diaspora, race and racism, and the transpacific circulation of people, goods, and idea
• Shannon Hinsa-Leasure, Professor h-index 6
  Microbial diversity, antibiotic resistance and genetic exchange, and strategies for bacterial survival. Most recently she began a collaboration with Dr. Lillian Radoshevich to study virulence in Listeria monocytogenes . More specifi
• Caroline Dong, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  I am an evolutionary biologist who examines how populations adapt to their environments and how those adaptations can lead to the formation of new species. My research combines field experiments, molecular lab work, genomics, quantitative genetics, and statistical modeling to investigate the...
• Daniel P. Reynolds, Professor h-index 6
  German literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on the Weimar Republic, East Germany, the history and culture of Berlin, and German colonialism and the genocide of the Nama and Herero p
• Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, Associate Professor h-index 6
  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...
• Christopher P. French, Professor h-index 6
  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....
• Elizabeth Prevost, Professor h-index 5
  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...
• Lily Demars, Assistant Professor h-index 5
• Jonathan Larson, Assistant Professor h-index 5
  Interculturalism, scale, and initiatives of inclusion across the educational systems of the European Union, as well as ambiguities of "the internship" in US higher education. Dr. Larson's work on inclusion across the education syste
• Eiren Shea, Associate Professor h-index 4
  Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at Grinnell College, 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.....
• Debdeep Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor h-index 4
  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....
• Jonathan Andelson, Professor h-index 4
• Julia Bauder, Professor h-index 3
  Julia Bauder’s 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...
• Erik Simpson, Professor h-index 3
  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 Grinnell....
• Eleanor Glewwe, Assistant Professor h-index 3
  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 interested in phonological question
• Mark Laver, Associate Professor h-index 3
  Dr. Mark Laver, an Associate Professor of Music at Grinnell College, is a pathbreaking and versatile saxophonist, educator, and scholar. As a jazz musician and creative improviser, Laver has performed with premier international artists including Lee Konitz, Seamus Blake, Kurt Elling, Eddie Prévost.....
• K. Gibel Mevorach, Emeritus h-index 2
• Kayla Reed, Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Kayla Reed’s research and teaching focuses on Open Educational Practices with a certificate from the SPARC Open Educational Leadership Program, Open Librarianship Certificate from the Open Education Network, and a Creative Commons Certificate. Kayla also researches LGBTQ+ issues, with a focus on...
• Elias G. Saba, Associate Professor h-index 2
  On the classical Islamic heritage, its interpretations, and epistemological problems in the study of pre-modern Islam. He is currently at work on several projects. Together with Matthew L. Keegan, he is currently completing an edition an
• Christy Hazel, Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Christy’s 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...
• Elizabeth J Queathem, Lecturer h-index 1
  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...
• 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...
• Alan Henson, Applied Music Associate
  Alan Henson is the cello instructor at Grinnell College 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...
• Alex Aldridge, Applied Music Associate
• Alexander S Moffett, Emeritus
  Sandy Moffett joined the Grinnell 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....
• Ali Allami, Associate Professor
  Multiparty computation, privacy-preserving machine learning, reinforcement learning under privacy constraints, and ethical data governance. He is particularly interested in methods that preserve privacy during data aggregation and l
• Amanda Preperato, Assistant Professor
• Andrea Klassen, Instructor
• Andrew Gentzsch, Applied Music Associate
  Andrew Gentzsch, a native of Iowa City, is the violin instructor at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa and Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. Mr. Gentzsch has led the University of Delaware Chamber Orchestra and the University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra. Previously, Mr. Gentzsch received music...
• Andrew H Hamilton, Associate Professor
• Andrew Kaufman, Professor
• Anne Harris, Professor
• Barry Jones, Lecturer
  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.....
• Ben DeRidder, Associate Professor
  Es 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 co
• Bevin Blaber, Assistant Professor
  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...
• Bill Rudolph, Writing Center Instructor
• Bobbie McKibbin, Professor
• Brian Jaworski, Associate Professor
• Bruna Dantas Lobato, Assistant Professor
  Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer, translator of Brazilian literature, and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Grinnell College. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, was published in 2024 by Black Cat/Grove Atlantic in North America and is forthcoming in several countries—including...
• Byron Cabrera, Email:
  Hello Nice to meet you I am Byron, 梅論, 梅拜倫 or 바이런, 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
• Caleb Elfenbein, Professor
  I am a Professor of History and Religious Studies at Grinnell College, 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...
• Carolyn Herbst, Associate Professor
• Cecilia Knight, Associate Professor
  Organization and access. Her scholarship is primarily in the areas of cataloging and metadata. She is active in service activities professionally, on my campuses, and in her communities with the bulk of her efforts focused on the nuts an
• Celeste Miller, Emeritus
  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...
• Charles H Jepsen, Professor
  When Chuck moved from Senior Faculty Status to Professor Emeritus, he gave up his last teaching related duty: conducting summer research with Grinnell 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...
• Charles Miranda, Applied Music Associate
• Charvann Bailey, Associate Professor
• Cherry Ng, Assistant Professor
  Computing invariants for spaces that have symmetry governed by a group action. Another area of interest is the structure of model categories on lattices. Studying these model categories draws from both abstract category theory ideas and
• Christopher McKee, Professor
  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...
• Christopher R. Jones, Associate Professor
• Cole Cody, Instructor
• Collin Nolte, Assistant Professor
  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 bootstrapped differences in time-serie
• Cori Jakubiak, Professor
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• Cornelia Ellen Mease, Associate Professor
  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...
• Craig Quintero, Professor
  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...
• Cynthia Hansen, Associate Professor
  Es 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 (Introduction to General Linguistics, Syntax, Ph
• Dana Harrold, Assistant Professor
• Daniel Oore, Email:
  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, Dani’s collaborations have garnered accolades from leading.....
• Danya Crites, Lecturer
  The art of medieval Iberia. My dissertation, “From Mosque to Cathedral: The Social and Political Significations of Mudejar Architecture in Late Medieval Seville,” and subsequent publications explore the multifaceted relationships among Sp
• Darrius D'wayne Hills, Associate Professor
• Dasol Kim, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
• David Campbell, Professor
  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....
• David N Arseneault, Assistant Professor
• David Perez, Lecturer
• Deborah L Michaels, Associate Professor
  Es on national identity politics and the exclusion of minorities in schooling. With funding from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation , she is currently working on a book project tentatively titled
• Dewa Ayu Putri, Lecturer
  Dewa Ayu Eka Putri is a Balinese artist-anthropologist and is currently a Lecturer of Dance at Grinnell College. 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...
• Diane C Robertson, Associate Professor
  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...
• Dixuan Yujing Chen, Assistant Professor
• Ed Cohn, Professor
  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...
• Elizabeth Dobbs, Emerita
  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...
• Eric L. McIntyre, Professor
  Eric McIntyre maintains careers as a conductor, composer, instrumental performer, and educator. At Grinnell College he teaches music composition courses and directs the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra. He has contributed to Grinnell's Liberal Arts in Prison Program, for which he presented lectures...
• Eric Ragan, Assistant Professor
• Erin D Hurley, Associate Professor
• Eugene A Herman, Professor
  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...
• Eugene W Gaub, Professor
  Pianist Eugene Gaub is Professor of Music at Grinnell College, 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 Mojácar, Spain, and at the Université Laval in Québec City, with another....
• Evelyn Freeman, Assistant Professor
• Felipe Guz Tinoco, Instructor
• Fernanda Eliott, Assistant Professor
  Es on modeling emotions, feelings, moral processes, and decision-making differences among moral, immoral, and amoral agents. My research aligns with my background in CS, cognitive science, and philosophy. For more info about my research, vi
• Fred Buck, Applied Music Associate
  Fred Buck is currently a AMA of Music at Grinnell College, 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...
• Fredo Rivera, Associate Professor
  Es on art, visual culture and the built environment in Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico and Florida, as well as queer expression amongst the Caribbean diasporas and across the archipelago. Rivera is currently working on multiple writing and creativ
• Gabriel Espinosa, Lecturer
  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....
• George Barlow, Senior Faculty
• Hai-Dang Phan, Associate Professor
  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...
• Hanna Erftenbeck, Assistant Professor
  Es on exploring some of the earliest cities in the world, which emerged during the Early Bronze Age (c. BCE) in the eastern Mediterranean. In addition to my fieldwork at the Early Bronze Age site of Tall al-Handaquq South in the J
• Harold Kasimow, Professor
  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...
• Henry W. Morisada Rietz ’89, Professor
  Revolve around three poles, Early Judaism - especially Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Christianity, and contextual biblical interpretation, especially in Asian American contexts from a "hapa" perspective. His regular cycle of courses include Relig
• Hillary Eklund, Professor
  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.....
• Holly Roepke, Assistant Professor
• Hsin-Hui Liu, Applied Music Associate
• Hyejin Joo, Applied Music Associate
  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...
• Idelle Cooper, Associate Professor
  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....
• Iris Xiaoyu Liu, Applied Music Associate
• J Pablo Silva, Associate Professor
  Show up in the courses he teaches on U.S.-Latin American relations and modern Latin American radical movements. Education and Degrees Ph.D., University of Chicago Request Info Visit Apply 1115 8th Avenue Grinnell, IA Dire
• Jackson Montgomery Roper, Associate Professor
  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....
• Jaehyuk Lee, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Es on premodern Chinese literature, its reception in Korea, and its afterlives in modern media. He examines how literary texts, historical figures, and cultural symbols are reinterpreted across historical, cultural, and medial contexts, fro
• James Palmer, Associate Professor
  Born largely out of dialog with students in the classroom, include Italian involvement in the crusading movement, and ways that categories like “Italy” and “Italian” connoted, and how those connotations changed over the course of the crus
• Janice (Jan) Gross, Professor
  On how theatre and dialogue enable us to “imagine the other.” Her work on Algerian-born authors (i.e., Slimane Benaïssa, Mohamed Kacimi, Maïssa Bey, Fellag, Fatima Gallaire and Albert Camus) appears in Theatre Journal , Modern Drama , Frenc
• Jee-Weon Cha, Associate Professor
  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...
• Jeff Jonkman, Associate Professor
  Composite sampling, dose-response data in pharmaceutical studies, and Bayesian and empirical Bayes statistical methods. When not doing statistics, Jeff enjoys reading, doing crossword puzzles, listening to music, playing golf or ten
• Jeffrey Pedersen, Assistant Professor
• Jen Shook, Assistant Professor
  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 Grinnell as a Fellow in the...
• Jennifer Dobe, Assistant Professor
• Jennifer Paulhus, Professor
  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...
• Jenny Anger, Professor
  Jenny Anger is professor of art history at Grinnell College, where she has taught since earning her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University in 1997. Anger’s specialty is twentieth-century European art history and theory. Her first book, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern...
• Jenny Kenkel, Assistant Professor
  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...
• Jeremy Chen, Associate Professor
  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...
• Jin Feng, Professor
  Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College. 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...
• John Christian Rommereim, Professor
  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...
• John H Mutti, Emeritus
• Jordan Reznick, Assistant Professor
  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 ....
• Joseph Mileti, Professor
  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
• Joshua Ruiter, Assistant Professor
  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...
• Julian Rios Acuña, Assistant Professor
• Karen Shuman, Professor
  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 Grinnell are related to analysis, her area of expertise. She has published papers on signal...
• Karie Kristina Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor
  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...
• Karl DeLong, Professor
• Kathleen Hurley, Lecturer
  Kathleen Hurley is the instructor/lecturer for THD 104 and THD 204, the dance technique classes for the Grinnell College 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....
• Kathryn Kamp, Professor
  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 is interested in past identities, particularly childhood, experimental archae
• Kathryn M Jacobson, Professor
  Fungal biology are broad. With student and alumni collaborators, my work examines how fungi interact with other organisms to perform essential ecological functions. Our ultimate goal is to understand fungal response to changing climatic
• Kelly Herold, Professor
  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....
• Kelly Maynard, Associate Professor
• Kevin Niese, Lecturer
• Kevin R Engel, Associate Professor
• Kirsten Koester, Assistant Professor
• Lakesia Johnson, Associate Professor
• Laura Erickson, Applied Music Associate
  Laura graduated with a degree in choral music education from the University of Northern Iowa, and a master’s degree in harp performance from the University of Kansas. She has held teaching positions at Washburn University (KS), Simpson College, and currently serves as an associate music artist at...
• Leah Allen, Associate Professor
  Leah Claire Allen is Associate Professor in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) and English at Grinnell College. 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...
• Lesley M Delmenico, Emeritus
  Lesley Delmenico is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Grinnell College, Grinnell 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...
• Leslie A Gregg-Jolly, Professor
• Lexy Determan, Assistant Professor
• Makeba Lavan, Assistant Professor
  Es on (African) American Studies, Afrofuturism/Speculative Fiction and Popular Culture. In the fall of 2018, Makeba was granted a fellowship in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality department at Harvard University, and a Teaching and Learning
• Marc A Chamberland, Professor
  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...
• Mariko Shigeta Schimmel, Associate Professor
• Mark Christel, Associate Professor
  Responsibility Library Administration; Collection Development; Library Planning. Consulting Areas Physical Education
• Marlys Grimm, Lecturer
  Marlys Grimm is a distinguished collaborative pianist with extensive experience across Iowa's academic and choral communities. As a student at Central College, she studied piano with Donald Gren. Her career highlights a versatile commitment to musical partnership. ​Grimm has been a dedicated...
• Matthew Hedman, Assistant Professor
• Matthew Kluber, Professor
• Michael B Guenther, Associate Professor
• Michael Elsbernd, Applied Music Associate
  Michael Elsbernd teaches organ and provides ceremonial music for various gatherings in Herrick Chapel as Grinnell’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...
• Michael "Mac" Mackenzie, Professor
  Michael “Mac” Mackenzie is professor of art history at Grinnell College. Prior to his arrival at Grinnell, 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. Mackenzie’s special area of research is German...
• Morris Pelzel, Director of Academic Technology
• Nathan Friedrichsen, Instructor
  Have been in time series, a domain that analyzes data collected over time and tries to model how current data is correlated with past data, which can then be used for prediction More specifically, my graduate research looked at ‘long-memor
• Nicole Messerschmitt, Applied Music Associate
• Owen Kohl, Assistant Professor
  Kohl’s 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....
• Paul (Al) Lacson, Associate Professor
  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.....
• Paul Herstedt, Assistant Professor
  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.....
• Paula V Smith, Senior Faculty
  Paula Vene Smith’s recent publications include “ Refashioning Diary Studies: The Tradition of Black Women’s 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...
• Peter J Jacobson, Professor
  I am an ecosystem ecologist teaching at Grinnell College, 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 matt
• Peter Kinberg, Instructor
• Petrouchka Moïse, Assistant Professor
  Dr. Petrouchka Moïse is Assistant Professor / Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator at Grinnell College 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...
• Philippe J Moisan, Professor
• Phillip Jones, Associate Professor
  Responsibility Coordinates reference and instruction services Consulting Areas Chinese and Japanese; General Literary Studies; German Studies; Philosophy; Religious Studies; East Asian Studies
• Pratima Hebbar, Assistant Professor
  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.....
• Putu Hiranmayena, Assistant Professor
  Es on the intersections of Cosmology, Indigeneity, Environmental Activism, and Performativity in Balinese Gamelan, Heavy Metal, and Noise. He takes post-colonial, performance studies, and creative ethnographic approaches to looking at the s
• Rachel Maxon, Lecturer
• Ralph Savarese, Senior Faculty
  Professor Savarese has been on the faculty at Grinnell 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 , he was a fellow at Duke University’s...
• Raquel G Greene, Associate Professor
• Renée Bourgeois Parsons ’96, Lecturer
  Renee is a 1996 graduate of Grinnell College with a major in mathematics. She started her career in mathematics education while a student at Grinnell by working as a grader, Math Lab tutor, Real Problems tutor, and student secretary for the (then) Mathematics/Computer Science department. Since...
• Rob Clower, Applied Music Associate
  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...
• Robert T Chasson, Emeritus
  Ses 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 13th centuries. Recent articles on Italian “giant” bibles
• Russell Osgood, Professor
• Sarah Burnell, Assistant Professor
• Sarah Purcell, Professor
  Include: the Early National, Antebellum, and Civil War periods; popular culture and political culture; gender history; and military history. She is author of Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America , published
• Shuchi Kapila, Professor
  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...
• Sol Cátala-Valentín, Assistant Professor
  Consulting Areas Spanish, Music, Latin American Studies, and Peace and Conflict Studies
• Stacey Ramirez, Applied Music Associate
  Stacey Bostwick-Ramirez is currently a faculty member at Grinnell College 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...
• Stephen Andrews, Associate Professor
  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...
• Steven Charlson, Applied Music Associate
  Steve Charlson is a native of Waterloo, Iowa and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa. His principal teachers were Eldon Obrecht at the University of Iowa and Stuart Sankey at Indiana University. As a classical bassist, Steve has performed with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls....
• Susan Baley, Lecturer
• Susan Ireland, Professor
  Contemporary French fiction, Quebec women writers, the Algerian novel, and the literature of immigration in France and Quebec. She has published articles in these areas and has edited Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France and
• Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, Professor
  Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant (known as “Dr. B” on campus) is a womanist sociologist. She came to Grinnell 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.....
• Tammy Nyden, Associate Professor
• Taryn Ely, Visiting Assistant Professor
  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 expand
• Taylor Mayne, Applied Music Associate
• Taylor Price, Lecturer
• Tess Kulstad, Assistant Professor
  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...
• Thomas L Moore, Professor
  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.....
• Tim Hollibaugh, Associate Professor
• Timothy Arner, Professor
  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...
• Timothy Lomeli, Assistant Professor
  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...
• Timothy S. Dobe, Professor
• Todd P. Armstrong, Professor
• Tony Perman, Professor
  Tony Perman (ethnomusicology) is a specialist in the music of Zimbabwe and the semiotics of music and emotion. His monograph Signs of the Spirit: Music and the Experience of Meaning in Ndau Ceremonial Life and edited volume Music Making Community were published by the University of Illinois Press in...
• Tracy Finkelshteyn, Applied Music Associate
• Vanessa Preast, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
  Assessment, faculty development, digital accessibility, team-based learning, and restorative practices. Request Info Visit Apply 1115 8th Avenue Grinnell, IA Directions and Map Museum of Art Athletics Bookstore Ca
• Victoria Brown, Professor
  Professor Brown has been a member of the Grinnell 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...
• Vida Praitis, Professor
  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...
• Viktoria Pötzl, Assistant Professor
  Viktoria Pötzl’s research explores the global relationship between gender, nation, and belonging. Before coming to Grinnell in fall 2019, she taught German studies, Jewish studies, and German language for over a decade in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Pötzl’s current and second book project.....
• Vinny Paris, Instructor
  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
• Weiwei Luo, Assistant Professor
  East Asia (especially China). Her interest in the history of comparative institutions emerged during her training at Washington University School of Law, where she was an Alex Handler Scholar and Law Awards Scholar. After completing her
• William Freeman, Associate Professor
  For my Grandkids, Athletes and Colleagues After a highly successful 42 years of coaching and teaching sport psychology and sport sociology at Grinnell College, Will Freeman has retired from coaching to teach exclusively in the American studies department at Grinnell. His innovative and successful...
• Zack Hasenyager, Assistant Professor

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.