MSIR Past Visiting Scholars

The following scholars have visited Grinnell College since 1993:

Carolivia Herron, has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of the children's book Nappy Hair. Dr. Herron will be teaching a three-week short course on "Star Trek and the Epic Other."
Craig Howe, is a nationally recognized scholar who received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Architecture and Anthropology. Dr. Howe will be teaching a three-week short course on "Tribal Landscapes and Identities."
Jerry W. Ward, has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia and teaches at Tougaloo College in the Department of English. Dr. Ward will be teaching a two-week short course on "Experiments in Reading: Ellison, Faulkner, Wright, and Oral History."
Dawn Norfleet, has a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia and is a specialist in African American music, women in music, and East African music. She is also a vocalist, flutist, and composer and has performed throughout the New York City area. Dr. Norfleet taught a three-week short course on "Black Music and Spoken Word: a Nexus of Mysticism and Literal Meaning."
Judith Huacuja Pearson, doctoral candidate in art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, taught a three-week short course on "Chicano Cultural Citizenship."
Susan Power, received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her JD degree from Harvard, is national best selling author of The Grass Dancer. Ms. Powers taught a three-week short course on "Ghosts in America: The Spectral Landscape of American Fiction."
Bernard Jackson, Ph.D. candidate at The University of Iowa, Department of Philosophy, taught a three-week short course on "Swimming Against the Tide of the Mainstream: The 'Crits,' Critical Race Theory, and Dworkin."
Paul Ortiz, Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, Department of History, taught a three-week short course on "The African American Freedom Struggle in the Age of Jim Crow."
Andre Alexis Robinson, Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, Department of Political Science, taught a three-week short course on "Seeing Black, Selling Fear: Race and Political Advertising."
Katya Gibel Azoulay, who received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Duke University just prior to coming to Grinnell, taught two semester-long courses, one on "Introduction to African American New World Studies" and the other on "The Anthropology of American Culture."
LeAnne Howe, journalist and creative writer, taught a two-week short course on "Native American Literature and Culture" and returned to Grinnell to teach two semester-long courses, one on "Writing America" and the other on "Native American Literature and Culture."
George Brandon, associate professor of sociomedical sciences at City University of New York Medical School, taught a three-week short course on "African and African American Religions: Cosmos, Spirit, and Community in Africa and the African Diaspora."
William Darity, Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, taught a two-week short course on "Ethnic and Racial Inequality: A Cross-National Perspective."
Vince Gotera, assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, taught a three-week short course on "Asian American Literature."
Shireen Lewis, Ph.D. candidate at Duke University, Department of Romance Studies, taught a two-week short course on "Race and Identity in 20th-Century Francophone Literature of West Africa and the Caribbean."
Teresa Barnes, Pembroke Center Scholar at Brown University, taught a three-week short course on "Independence and Misogyny: Challenges for African Women in Southern Africa."
Althea Waites, concert pianist, scholar, and educator on the faculty at the University of La Verne in California, offered a master class, lecture-recitals, and guest lectures in several music classes.
Bobby Sanabria, drummer/percussionist, offered workshops on Latin percussion and drum set, guest lectures in several music classes and participated in a percussion symposium held here.
Lawrence Bobo, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Race, Politics, and Society at the University of California-Los Angeles, taught a two-week mini-course on "American Racism and the Black Middle Class."
Charles Payne, professor of African-American Studies at Northwestern University, taught a three-week short course on "The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi."
Karen deLeon Jones, research fellow of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Savoie, in France, taught a three-week short course on "Cultural Exchanges: Religions/Ethnic Minorities in 16th Century France and Italy."
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, associate professor of English at Spelman College, taught a three-week short course on "Voices and Techniques in the Works of Langston Hughes."

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Revised November 24, 1999