Project Lead: Prof. Jordan Reznick, Assistant Professor of American Studies  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Zach Rusli  AMS 130 Introduction to American Studies investigates the stories, struggles, and power relations that shape American life—focusing on national myths and everyday practices alongside histories of race, gender, class, disability, colonization, identity, resistance, and the

Project Lead: Prof. Sol Cátala-Valentín, Assistant Professor, Research and Instruction Resident Librarian  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Carrie Anne Little  To make library learning more engaging and memorable, this project will transform an existing infographic into a self-paced, story-driven digital escape room.   The project builds on Beyond the Search Bar: The TV

Project Lead: Valeriya Woodard ‘25 • Public History Collective Post-Baccalaureate Fellow  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Becky Santizo-Zapeta  As a Vivero Project Lead, I am looking for a fellow to collaborate with me on the “Black History and Legacy” project. This project is part of my work in my role as the

Project Lead: Erik Jarvis, Music Technical Associate  Vivero Fellow (Fall 2026): Steph Kama-Kama   The Music Dept Vivero Fellow will assist with managing the concert recording archive. Working alongside the Music Technical Associate Erik Jarvis, the Fellow will log and manage metadata, and begin to construct a webpage for hosting recordings.

Lead: Prof. Todd Armstrong, Professor of Russian   Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Bruno Sica   I am excited to work with a Vivero Fellow this semester in my course RUS 214 “Comrades in the Kitchen: Russian and Soviet Food Culture.” I have in mind a principal task for the fellow, as well

Project Lead: Prof. Mariko Shigeta Schimmel, Associate Professor of Japanese  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Ngoc Ta  For AY2026-2027, I would like to work with a Vivero Fello on building a website about the earliest Japanese students at Grinnell: 1889-1905: This project focuses on the early college history when seven Japanese students

Project Lead: Prof. Jonathan Larson (Assistant Professor of Education) Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Reid Singer Vivero Fellow (Fall 2025): Jude Morgan For Fall 2026 I seek a Vivero Fellow to help me follow up on a Fall 2025 Vivero project that focused on analysis of policy texts concerning how institutions of

Project Lead: Prof. Kent McClelland, Professor Emeritus of Sociology  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Oleksandr Nerubay  The eugenics movement arose as “scientific racism” in the late 1800s, and it gained widespread acceptance in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. Eugenics was so popular in the early twentieth

Project Lead: Prof. Carolyn Jacobson, Senior Lecturer in English Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Molly Ryan  My current research focuses on an extra-illustrated biography of Charles Dickens, which is owned by Grinnell College and is housed in Special Collections.  “Extra-illustrated” means that at some point an owner has added material to the

Project Lead: Prof. Sarah Burnell (Head Women’s Cross Country Coach) Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Serena Tran Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Olyvia Liu-Cai Grinnell College’s cross country teams were established in 1920 (men) and 1974 (women); over the many decades since those inaugural years, the teams have grown and flexed with the broader

Lead: Prof. Roger Vetter, Professor Emeritus of Music  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Ahmed Dafaalla  The Grinnell College World Musical Instrument Collection is an open-source searchable database intended to provide its users with visual, sonic, and written information about a broad sampling of acoustic musical instruments (and a few electronic ones as well) of

Project Lead: Prof. Aguibou Bougobali SANOU, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Olyvia Liu-Cai  Djatigui-Ya (ja-tee-gee-ya) is a community-engaged choreography project exploring hospitality, belonging, and cultural exchange through movement. Integrated into THD-295: Choreography, the project invites students to extend their learning beyond the classroom and

Project Lead: Prof. Weiwei Luo • Assistant Professor of History  Vivero Fellow (2026-2027): Jude Morgan  This project will create a sustainable, accessible website for “The Historian as Detective,” a 100-level History methods course organized around a central question: how do historians construct an account of the past from incomplete, uneven,

Project Lead: Jin Feng, Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature  Vivero Fellow (Fall 2026): Sarah Qi  My project “We Are What We Eat (and Serve): Chinese American Restaurants in Small-Town Iowa” focuses on Chuong Garden, a mini chain of Chinese restaurants in