Environmental Studies Faculty
Chair
Professor
Senior Faculty
Rosenfeld Professor in Social Science
Email: andelson@grinnell.edu
Jonathan Andelson was born in Chicago and earned a B.A. from 51²č¹Żapp 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...
Professor
Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from 51²č¹Żapp College, 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
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...
Professor
Email: jacobsop@grinnell.edu
I am an ecosystem ecologist teaching at 51²č¹Żapp 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 matter of our choice, as the goal of the course is to expose...
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...