Women’s Studies Worldwide
Project lead: Prof. Clara Montague (Lecturer in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024): Cadence Chen Women’s Studies Worldwide is a digital mapping project that documents the global history of academic feminism, specifically interdisciplinary research and degree programs focused on gender, women’s, and sexuality studies. Encompassing almost 1,000 institutional sites established over the past […]
Virtual Titular Head
Project lead: Adam Kelley-Chown (Assistant Director of Regional & Virtual Engagement) Former project lead: Ashley Renstrom-Schaefer (Senior Associate Director of Alumni and Donor Relations) Vivero Fellow (Spring 2025, 2025-2026): Kiera Rennick Vivero Fellow (Fall 2024): Lívia Stein Freitas Vivero Fellow (2023-2024): Mahiro Noda Website link: https://titularhead.sites.grinnell.edu/ The Virtual Celebration of Titular Head (or simply Tithead) […]
Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies Digital Archive
Project leads: Kate Baumgartner (Assistant Technical Director) & Erik Sanning (Technical Director) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024, 2024-2025, 2025-2026): Chloe Kelly Link: provisional URL The Challenge: The Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ past production photos are currently stored in a haphazard collection of online platforms with varying degrees of (in)accessibility and (un)usability. These photos are often […]
Sociology & Subcultures
Project lead: Prof. Ross Haenfler (Professor of Sociology) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024): Lívia Stein Freitas Several iterations of Ross Haenfler’s Deviance and Social Control class have contributed to a WordPress site, available at https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/, about subcultures and subculture theory. The course focuses on subcultures such as goth, punk, burlesque, skateboarding, and many, many more. The intention […]
Mapping Iowa Black History
Project lead: Prof. Sarah Purcell (L.F. Parker Professor of History) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024): Ellen Hengesbach This project is related to Prof. Purcell’s work as an affiliated researcher with the Iowa Black History Research Collective (https://blackhistoryresearchcollective.org/). The IBHRC has a mission of keeping Black History accessible in Central Iowa while centering the lived experience of Black […]
Historical Landscapes of Grinnell
Project Leads: Prof. P. Albert Lacson (Associate Professor of History) & Prof. Cori Jakubiak (Associate Professor of Education & Director of the Center for Prairie Studies) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2023): Ohana Sarvotham Vivero Fellow (Spring 2024): Kailee Shermak We would like our Vivero Fellow to help us create an Omeka website that will be a […]
Edith Renfrow’s Grinnell: A Digital Walk
Project lead: Dr. Tamara Beauboeuf (Louise R. Noun Chair in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies) Vivero Fellow (Fall 2023): Libby Eggert Edith Renfrow Smith ’37 is the namesake of Grinnell College’s newest residence, Renfrow Hall, which will open Fall 2024. Born, raised, and educated in Grinnell, the spry 109-year-old still recalls the streets and spaces […]
Grinnell & Anatolia: Across Sea & Time
Project Lead: Karen Edwards (Dean of International Student Affairs, Grinnell College) & Georgia Proestopoulou ‘01 (Associate Director of US College Counseling, Anatolia College, Greece) Vivero Fellow (2023-2024): Raj Jhanwar Vivero Fellow (2022-2023): Lena Wiebe Two separate institutions, on two sides of the world, share deep and lasting connections through wars, trans-national migration, and shifting governmental […]
Rootstalk: A Prairie Journal of Culture, Science, and the Arts
Project Leads: Jon Andelson (Professor of Anthropology), Mark Baechtel (Lecturer and Director of Forensic Activities & Club Sports), & Mark McFate (Digital Library Applications Developer) Vivero Fellow (2022-2023, 2023-2024): Mikey O’Connor Vivero Fellow (2021-2022): Senay Gokcebel ROOTSTALK began as an on-line publication project of the College’s Center for Prairie Studies, funded initially through a grant […]
Mapping Racial Trauma
Project Lead: Dr. Stephanie Jones (Associate Professor of Education) Vivero Fellow (2025-2026): Karolina Calleros Vivero Fellow (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024): Feven Adane Getachew This project is connected to Professor Jones’ research on racial trauma in schools. The purpose of the Mapping Racial Trauma (MRT) in Schools project is to identify the ways in which Black students and […]
