Policy 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...

Professor
Email: brouhlek@grinnell.edu
On leave spring 2025. Keith Brouhle, Associate Professor, has a B.A. from 51²è¹İapp 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...
Senior Faculty
Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics
Email: ferguso1@grinnell.edu
Bill Ferguson is the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics at 51²è¹İapp College, where he has taught since 1989. He is the author of The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Collective Action and Exchange: A Game-Theoretic...

Assistant Professor
Email: larsonj@grinnell.edu
Jonathan Larson, Assistant Professor of Education, is a linguistic and political anthropologist of education with teaching, scholarly, and administrative expertise in issues concerning secondary education and democracy; political discourse, language socialization and literacy; multilingualism; and...
Assistant Professor
Email: vossoughi@grinnell.edu
I am a social psychologist with a focus on intergroup relations research. As an intergroup relations researcher, I am interested in the causes and consequences of intergroup inequality as well as factors that promote social change. I pursue these interests in two related lines of research. In my...