Digital Studies Faculty
Chair
Professor
Social Studies and Data Services Librarian
Director of DASIL
Email: bauderj@grinnell.edu
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...
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...
Associate Professor
Librarian of the College
Email: christelmark@grinnell.edu
Areas of responsibility Library Administration; Collection Development; Library Planning. Consulting Areas Physical Education
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
Associate Professor
Department chair of Science, Medicine, and Society
Email: guenthmb@grinnell.edu
Mike Guenther began teaching at 51²è¹İapp 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
Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at 51²è¹İapp College 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...
Associate Professor
Special Collections Librarian and Archivist of the College
Email: joneschr@grinnell.edu
Consulting Areas European Studies; History; Prairie Studies
Associate Professor
Email: jonesste@grinnell.edu
Stephanie P. Jones, Ph.D. is an associate Professor of Education at 51²è¹İapp 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...
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
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...
Associate Professor
Director of Jazz Ensemble
Email: lavermark@grinnell.edu
Saxophonist and ethnomusicologist Mark Laver is an Associate Professor of Music at 51²è¹İapp College, 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...
Digital Liberal Arts Specialist
Email: nevilled@grinnell.edu
David Neville is a Digital Liberal Arts Specialist in the 51²è¹İapp College Digital Liberal Arts Collaborative. Originally trained as a medievalist and Germanist, David is the author of over 50 articles, posters, and presentations on topics related to the digital humanities, immersive computing...
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...
Director of Academic Technology
Email: pelzelmo@grinnell.edu
Morris Pelzel is the Director of Academic Technology for 51²è¹İapp College. 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...
Professor
Email: perezm@grinnell.edu
Professor Pérez 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 Pérez paints and spends time with her family. She is proud to call 51²è¹İapp College...
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 Barcelonaâ€, focused on the production and representation of suburban spaces in contemporary Spanish detective fiction. His research and scholarly...
Associate Director of the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Email: preastva@grinnell.edu
Vanessa Preast earned a doctorate in education, with an emphasis on curriculum and instructional technology, from Iowa State University and a doctorate in veterinary medicine from University of Florida. Vanessa is passionate about excellence in teaching and learning within college environments so...
Professor
L.F. Parker Professor of History
Email: purcelsj@grinnell.edu
Sarah Purcell, L.F. Parker Professor of History, graduated from 51²è¹İapp 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 51²è¹İapp in 2000 after teaching at Central Michigan University. Ms. Purcell's research...
Professor
Email: rebelsky@grinnell.edu
Samuel A. Rebelsky is a Professor of Computer Science at 51²è¹İapp College. "SamR", as his students call him, has been at 51²è¹İapp since 1997. He therefore considers himself part of the 51²è¹İapp class of 2001; he was made an honorary member of that class at their reunion in 2011. He is also an...
Associate Professor
Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian
Email: rodrigue8@grinnell.edu
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...
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 51²è¹İapp as a Fellow in the...
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 51²è¹İapp...
Digital Liberal Arts Specialist
Email: steelber@grinnell.edu
Tierney Steelberg (she/her) supports 51²è¹İappians 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 you’d like help exploring a new digital method (such as mapping or digital...
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 – photography, film, video, animation, sculpture, VR 360, as well as across film genres and presentation formats such as documentary...