American Studies Faculty
Associate Professor
Director, Center for the Humanities
Email: andrewss@grinnell.edu
I teach mostly 18th and 19th century American Literature, but I like to roam a little, especially if given the opportunity to team teach or supervise MAPs. During any four-year cycle I am likely to offer a seminar on Whitman and Dickinson; an American poetry seminar titled “Beat, Black, and...
Associate Professor
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...
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...
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
Senior Faculty
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 Â鶹´«Ã½ College. Baccalaureate 2017: Professor...
Associate Professor
Department chair of Science, Medicine, and Society
Email: guenthmb@grinnell.edu
Mike Guenther began teaching at Â鶹´«Ã½ College 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
George A. Drake Professor of Religious Studies
Email: rietz@grinnell.edu
Henry W. Morisada Rietz is a Professor of Religious Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½ College 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...
Professor
L.F. Parker Professor of History
Email: purcelsj@grinnell.edu
Sarah Purcell, L.F. Parker Professor of History, graduated from Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2000 after teaching at Central Michigan University. Ms. Purcell's research...
Lecturer
Interim Director, Center for Prairie Studies (2024-25)
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 received her PhD in Sociology from University of Pittsburgh. Her research and teaching interests include social movements, migration, Southeast Asia, and Asian Americans from a global and transnational perspective. Sharon’s projects and courses to date reflect her intellectual and...
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...
Assistant Professor
Email: riveraal@grinnell.edu
Art and architectural historian Fredo Rivera ‘06 is Assistant Professor of Art History at Â鶹´«Ã½ College, 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 Rivera’s research...
Senior Faculty
Email: scottk1@grinnell.edu
She is an internationally renowned Diversity Trainer/Consultant, an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Â鶹´«Ã½ College, and an award-winning writer. Kesho was a founding member of International Capacity Building Services, a cultural competency training team that specializes in...