Mission

Founded in 2001, the purpose of the Center is to draw attention to and support superlative research and teaching in the Humanities at Grinnell, to provide Grinnell faculty with an opportunity to be in dialogue with Humanities scholars from around the world, to be an ongoing forum for sustained communication between the Humanities and academic endeavors in Social Sciences and Sciences at Grinnell, and to provide selected students with the opportunity for intensive intellectual collaborations with faculty.

The activities of the Center each year focus on a broad theme selected by the Center's Advisory Board in connection with the research interests of the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities. Each year, the Visiting Professor—in residence on campus for the Fall Semester—offers an upper-level interdisciplinary seminar open to Juniors and Seniors and directs a Faculty Seminar. In addition, he or she will offer a number of public lectures at the College and will return to Grinnell late in the Spring Semester as keynote speaker at a major Humanities Symposium devoted to the topic of the Fall's Faculty Seminar.

Center Staff

Director: Daniel Reynolds
Associate Professor of German

Administrative Assistant: Sondi Burnell
641-269-4343
FAX: 641-269-4330
burnell@grinnell.edu

Advisory Board:
Jenny Anger, Art
Karla Erickson, Sociology
Richard Fyffe, Burling Library
Susan Ireland, French
Shuchi Kapila, English
Tyler Roberts, Religious Studies