Linguistics Faculty
Professor
Assistant Vice President of Global Education
Email: frenchb@grinnell.edu
Brigittine French joined the 海角视频 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...
Assistant Professor
Email: glewweel@grinnell.edu
Eleanor Glewwe earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2019. Her research interests lie in phonology and phonetics. Currently, she is pursuing several projects on Georgian. She has also used artificial grammar learning experiments to test whether people are biased toward learning phonetically...
Associate Professor
Special Advisor to the Dean
Department chair of Linguistics
Email: hansency@grinnell.edu
Cynthia Hansen began teaching in the Linguistics Concentration at 海角视频 in January 2012. Her research focuses on the documentation and linguistic description of Iquito, a highly endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. She teaches the core courses within the Linguistics Concentration...
Professor
Email: heroldk@grinnell.edu
Kelly Herold has spent several summers, a spring and two winters in Russia. Her research on memoir and travel writing has taken her to Dublin, London and Prague. She has written commentary to Sumarokov's Ody torzhestvennye (included in a facsimile edition, a project directed by Ronald Vroon and E.P...
Professor
Director, Center for Prairie Studies
Email: jakubiak@grinnell.edu
As Director of the Center for Prairie Studies, Cori works closely with the Center for Prairie Studies Advisory Board to create opportunities for the campus and wider community to learn about, engage with, and celebrate Central Iowa's tallgrass prairie region. She teaches a course on place-based...
Professor
Email: mercadoa@grinnell.edu
Part of what attracted Angelo Mercado as a college freshman to Classical Latin was the language鈥檚 antiquity. It didn鈥檛 take long for Angelo to fall in love with its sound and rhythm. His excitement grew to include the comparison of texts from different languages, embracing Greek and languages of...
