About Grinnell College
Founded in 1846, Grinnell College is a highly selective liberal arts college that enrolls 1500 students who come from every state and 50 countries around the world. The College's curriculum is founded on a strong advising system and close student-faculty interaction, with few college-wide requirements beyond the completion of a major. Grinnell College is consistently evaluated as among the finest residential liberal arts colleges in the nation. Capitalizing on a student/faculty ratio of 9:1 and an average class size of 17 students, the College's curricular and research programs incorporate active learning and collaborative work between students and faculty, a strong, growing commitment to undergraduate research, and an increasing focus on interdisciplinary study. Grinnell College has an attractive campus of 108 acres, with spectacular, well-maintained facilities such as the Noyce Science Center, including collaborative spaces that have inspired similar designs nation-wide, and the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts, acting as a creative hub between the campus and community. The college also owns the 365-acre Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), located about 14 miles from the campus and used on a regular basis for research and teaching.
Information on Faculty Positions
Open Faculty Positions (Starting Fall 2012)
- Department of Anthropology (Linguistic Anthropology) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Art (European Medieval/Early Modern Art History) -- Tenure Track
- Department of Art -- 2-Year Postdoctoral Position
- Department of Biology (Eukaryotic Cell Biology) -- Tenure Track
- Department of Chemistry (Organic Chemistry) -- 2-Year Term
- Department of Chinese & Japanese (Chinese Language & Culture) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Chinese & Japanese (Japanese Language & Culture) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Computer Science -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Economics (Open) -- Tenure Track
- Department of English (18th-Century British Literature) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of English (English Renaissance Literature) -- Tenure Track
- Department of English (Ethnic American Literature & Poetry Writing) -- Tenure Track
- Department of French and Arabic (French) -- Tenure Track
- Department of French and Arabic (Open) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of German (Open) -- Tenure Track
- Department of History (20th-Century U.S. Women's & Gender History) -- Tenure Track
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics (Statistics) -- 2-Year Term
- Department of Mathematics & Statistics (Visiting) -- 2-Year Term
- Department of Music (Ethnomusicology) -- Tenure Track
- Department of Philosophy (Open) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Political Science (Public Law & American Politics) -- 1-Year Term
- Department of Psychology (Neuroscience) -- 1-Year Term
