David Cook-Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/sociology/faculty/cook/

David Cook-Martin has a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.A. from the University of Houston, and a Ph.D. from UCLA. He teaches courses on migration, citizenship, and methods, and his research interests are in the areas of political membership, ethnicity, and gender, as observed in contexts of international migration. Cook-Martin has been teaching at Grinnell College since 2007.

He will give a talk titled: The trouble with Postville: Dilemmas in Immigration Management
In May 2008, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained over 300 people at the most important kosher slaughterhouse in the country. The Postville, Iowa raid represented the largest in the state's history and among the largest nationwide. Federal authorities charged the detainees with identity theft and fraud, a criminal charge and a deviation from the definition of immigration violations as civil matters. The raid was also unprecedented in the number of federal and local agencies involved as well as the extent of coordination. In this session, Postville serves as a lens through which to view several dilemmas of managing immigration such as the tension between local, state and federal interests, the alignment of constituencies on immigration matters along lines that don't map onto the red-blue divide, and the conflicting imperatives of national identity and of demographic/economic dynamics.

Robert Grey, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/polisci/faculty/grey/

Robert Grey graduated with a B.A. in French from Wesleyan University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Yale. He strongly believes in involving students in his research, and has published work co-authored with students. Grey is deeply involved in cross-disciplinary work, including in the areas of Chinese and Japanese, Africana studies, and the Russian, Central, and Eastern European studies concentration. Grey has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1968.

Kent McClelland, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/sociology/faculty/mcclelland/

Kent McClelland has an A.B. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He teaches Contemporary Sociological Theory, Conflict Resolution Seminar, and Methodology, and his research interests focus on perceptual control theory. McClelland has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1982.

Elizabeth Queathem, Ph.D., Lecturer in Biology

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/biology/faculty/queathem/

Liz Queathem is a comparative physiologist and functional morphologist interested in the relationships among exercise, mood, stress, and anxiety. Queathem has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1997.

Daniel Reynolds, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of German

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/german/faculty/reynolds/

Dan Reynolds has a B.S. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. He teaches 19th- and 20th-century literature and German Cinema. His published research interests articles modernist literature and culture, the intersections of history and fiction, representations of Holocaust, and the politics memorials. Reynolds has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1998.

He will give a talk titled: Berlin: Traveling through the Past, Present, and Future
Few cities on the globe can equal the historical, cultural, and symbolic import conveyed by Berlin. A city with over 750 years of history, its ancient roots are often overshadowed by the creative and destructive forces that have shaped the past 100 years. The traces of Berlin's past are visible at nearly every corner of the city, sharing the urban space with all the signs that herald the future of a united Europe during the 21 century. This lecture will explore the physical traces of Berlin's many pasts through it's architecture, its museums, its memorials, its boundaries, its ruins, its place names, and its residents. In part a synopsis of a semester-long course offered at Grinnell about this iconic city, the lecture will also provide an example of some recent trends in Grinnell's increasingly interdisciplinary curriculum.

Henry Rietz ’89, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Religious Studies

http://www.grinnell.edu/academic/religious/faculty/rietz/

Henry Rietz ’89 received a B.A. from Grinnell College, followed by a Ph.D. in biblical studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the associate editor of the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project. His research interests revolve around three poles: early Judaism (especially the Dead Sea Scrolls), early Christianity, and contextual biblical interpretation, especially in Asian American contexts from a “hapa” perspective. Rietz has been teaching at Grinnell College since 1998.

He will give a talk titled: Textual Intercourse: The Hebrew Bible, Christian Scriptures, and the Dead Sea Scrolls
This lecture will provide participants with a sampling of the academic study of the Bible. Drawing on examples from the Hebrew Bible, Christian Scriptures, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, this lecture is structured to encourage participants to reflect on we create and manipulate texts and contexts to create meaning. Along the way we will ask questions such as, What did the books that would later be included in the Bible look like in the first century? How do the Dead Sea Scrolls challenge our notions of Canon? How did early Jews and the early followers of Jesus interpret their sacred texts?