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...
Professor
Breid-McFarland Professor of Science
Email: marzluff@grinnell.edu
Professor Marzluff teaches Physical Chemistry (CHM 363, 364), General Chemistry (CHM 129), Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry (CHM 210) as well as the Policy Studies seminar (PST320) and the Advanced Policy Research course (PST 420). Professor Marzluff's research focuses on the structure and dynamics...
Emeritus
Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics
Email: mutti@grinnell.edu
John “Jack†Mutti, Sidney Meyer Professor of International Economics, has a B.A. from Earlham College, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He teaches and does research on international economics and public finance.
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...