Peace and Conflict Studies Faculty
Senior Lecturer
2025 ACLS Fellow
I study the history of print culture and ideas in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from the late eighteenth century to the present. My research and teaching interests include: modern MENA history, politics, and cultures; intellectual and literary histories of the Arab world; histories of...
Assistant Professor
Email: baconjul@grinnell.edu
J. M. Bacon (Jules) Assistant Professor Offices, Departments, or Centers: Sociology, Environmental Studies J. M. Bacon is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department specializing in environmental sociology. Dr. Bacon鈥檚 research explores the relationship between culture, identity, and eco...
Professor
Email: dobetimo@grinnell.edu
Professor Dobe teaches courses on Hinduism, Bollywood and religion, Gandhi, Global Christianity and Sufism. His research focuses on comparing religions, traditions of sainthood and asceticism, and the history of western imperialism, religious pluralism and modernization. His book about Hindu and...
Assistant Professor
Email: eliottfe@grinnell.edu
Fernanda Eliott is an assistant professor of computer science at 91大神. Professor Eliott builds Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that use cognitive inspiration and Reinforcement Learning (RL) techniques. Her overall goal is to develop state-of-the-art cognitively inspired...
Professor
Assistant Vice President of Global Education
Email: frenchb@grinnell.edu
Brigittine French joined the 91大神 faculty in 2003 and is Professor of Anthropology. French is a linguistic and political anthropologist whose diverse body of teaching and research focuses on theoretical and ethnographic approaches to narrative, testimonial discourse, violence, gender, rights...
Professor
Ross Haenfler is Professor of Sociology at 91大神 where he teaches Social Movements, Deviance and Social Control, Sociological Theory, Men and Masculinities, and introductory sociology courses. He loves teaching and tries to teach classes that create possibilities for students to live more...
Assistant Professor
Email: hiranmay@grinnell.edu
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist-scholar serving as Assistant Professor of Music (Performance and Creativity), where he directs the Balinese Sound Ensemble and teaches courses on Heavy Metal Music, Electronic Music, and Noise and Activism. He also is a founding member of Balinese...
Professor
Maxeiner Baumann-Payne Professor of English
Email: kapilas@grinnell.edu
Shuchi Kapila teaches literature in English from Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Her other teaching interests include transnational feminisms, the novel, and narrative theory. Her scholarly work focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century British colonialism and literary and cultural...
Associate Professor
Email: youssef@grinnell.edu
Mervat Youssef is Associate Professor of Arabic. She holds a B.S. from the University of Helwan in Cairo, an M.S. from South Dakota State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Her research interests include media constructions of identity, especially in relation to news coverage of...
