Scholars in Residence

Cmiel Collaborative Semester
World Fares: Food, Culture, and Society since the Age of Industrialization

Lauren Rabinovitz: Convener (American Studies): Food at the Fair

Doris Witt: Convener (English): Food Rules for the World?

Constance Berman (History): Medieval Women’s work and Global Food Preparation

Catherine Komisaruk (History): From Handmade Tortillas to Bimbo Bread: Workers, Consumers, and the Rise of Commercial Baking in Mesoamerica

Barbara Mooney (Art and Art History): Of Modernity and Cows: J.W. Fraser’s Round Barn Campaign

Cameron Thies (Political Science): Food Security since the Age of Industrialization

Resident Scholars

Jeffrey Beneker (Classics, University of Wisconsin) is working on a book that examines the role of eros (erotic desire) in Plutarch's Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of ancient Greek and Roman statesmen.

Doris Bremm (English, Grinnell College) is writing a book,  "Representation Beyond Representation: Modes of Ekphrasis in Contemporary Narratives," which analyzes novels by contemporary authors such as Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt, and Salman Rushdie that utilize verbal representations of visual artwork to engage with the limits of written representation.

Kenneth Brown (Management and Organizations) is revising a book, Human Resource Management: Linking Strategy to Practice, and beginning work on a new book, “Management: From Knowledge to Skill.”

Diana Cates (Religious Studies) is writing on hatred and human dignity in relation to the ethics of virtue and human rights.

Lyombe Eko (Journalism and Mass Communication) is writing a book, “Many Spiders; One World Wide Web: Comparative Internet Law and Regulation.”

Ann Estin (Law) is writing a deskbook for judges and lawyers handling international family law matters including adoption, parental abduction, divorce, custody, and child support cases.

Ed Folsom (English) is directing the Walt Whitman Archive (www.whitmanarchive.org) and writing a biography of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. 

Gregory Friestad (Chemistry) is researching the development of new synthetic methods for application in drug discovery and total synthesis of biologically active natural products.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Lawrence E. Gelfand (History) is writing a book, “Democracy and Tyrannies: The United States and the Rise of the Modern Dictatorships, 1919-1933,” and an article on “The Problem of the Eastward Movement in U.S. History, 1850-1930.”

Loren Glass (English) is exploring the legal debates over literary obscenity in the postwar United States.

Carolyn Hartley (Social Work) is studying the role of court sanctions on batterers’ compliance with court ordered batterers education program in Iowa. She is preparing a grant proposal to study the long-term effects of civil legal services for battered women.

Joy Hayes (Communication Studies) is writing a book on community radio in Mexico and writing an article on regional and national identities in U.S. radio history.

Carolyn Hough (Sociology, Anthropology and Social Welfare, Augustana College) is conducting an interview-based, ethnographic research on infant feeding and Midwestern women’s return to work.

Meena Khandelwal (Anthropology and Women’s Studies) is comparing the anxieties produced by gender mixing in India and the U.S. by investigating contemporary forms of chastity, abstinence and heterosexual romance.

Christopher McKee (Grinnell College Libraries) is writing a book, “Ungentle Goodnights: Life in  Home for Elderly Naval Sailors and Marines, 1831-1895.”

John Reitz (Law) is writing a book about how a country’s legal system reflects the country’s political economy. The project seeks to contribute to international understanding by showing that specific differences in legal rules and institutions reflect general differences in national political economies.

Jason Rothman (Spanish and Portuguese) is writing a book, “The Acquisition of Spanish: A Critical Look.”

Morten Schlütter (Religious Studies/ International Programs) is writing a book, “The Evolution of the Platform Sutra and the Changing Notions of What Chan Should Be.”

Mark Sidel (Law) is continuing work on human trafficking in the U.S. and in Asia, and on several topics in nonprofit and philanthropic law, including nonprofit self-regulation and the law affecting community foundations.  During the fall he also hopes to complete for publication a translation of a Vietnamese intellectual's memoir of life in occupied Hanoi in the late 1940s and early 1950s. 

Sujatha Sosale (Journalism and Mass Communication) is studying media technologies that possess the technical capability to cross national borders, especially their historical and contemporary roles in social change in developing regions.

Associates

John Hudson (Iowa Cultural Sharing Network) is writing a book, Creativity and Innovation. He also will work with the Obermann Center to develop links to the local arts community.

Roberta Marvin (International Programs) is working on a monograph titled “Verdi the Student - Verdi the Teacher.”