Faculty Awards and Accomplishments

The grant will support her project entitled "Maya Testimonies in the Visual History Archive: Transcribing, Translating, and Accessing Survivor Life Histories."

Grinnell College professors Petrouchka Moïse and Fredo Rivera have won a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a multilingual database by digitizing 1,000+ Haitian artworks held in Haiti and the US as part of their "Haitian Art Digital Crossroads" project.

Darrius D. Hills, associate professor of religious studies, has been accepted to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute for June 2023.

Students in Ryan Miller and Shonda Kuiper's fall 2022 statistics courses have won second and third place titles in the National Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition.

Professor of History Edward Cohn has won a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) to conduct research on the KGB tactic known as the “prophylactic chat” — an "invitation" sent to citizens suspected of “anti-Soviet acts.”

The Mellon New Directions program allows mid-career scholars in the humanities to undertake formal training in fields outside their own to be able to conduct high-quality cross-disciplinary projects. 

A gift from the late Jack Hanson '39 and Lucile Hanson '40 Harris has endowed annual competitive fellowships for early career faculty members at Grinnell. The fellowships provide awardees with a leave at full salary for one academic year and up to $8,000 in research/travel funds.

The American Association of Publishers (AAP) has named a book co-edited by Professor of French David Harrison as a finalist in its Annual PROSE Award competition.

Petrouchka Moïse, assistant professor and cultural and community-based digital curator, was featured in prominent Haitian publication Le Nouvelliste last month.

The award-winning Afro-Latino physicist, educator, and visual artist will deliver a talk at 11:55 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22, in Noyce Science Center, Room 1023.