Library Faculty

Chair
Mark Christel
Associate Professor

Librarian of the College

Areas of responsibility Library Administration; Collection Development; Library Planning. Consulting Areas Physical Education
Julia Bauder
Professor

Social Studies and Data Services Librarian

Director of DASIL

Julia Bauder’s research and teaching focuses on the intersection of data, technology, and information literacy. How can colleges make sure that all students, not just those majoring in statistics or data science, are data literate? What would it look like to take “data across the curriculum” or...
Libby Cave
Assistant Professor

Digital Humanities and Instruction Librarian

Areas of Responsibility Reference and Instruction Consulting Areas Classics; East Asian Studies; French & Arabic; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; German Studies; Peace and Conflict Studies; Russian; Russian, Central European, and Eurasian Studies; Studies in Africa, Middle East, and South...
Sharon R. Clayton
Associate Professor

Acquisitions and Discovery Librarian

Areas of Responsibility Library Acquisitions and Discovery; Cataloging and Metadata; Research and Instruction Consulting Areas Art and Art History, French and Arabic
Kevin Engel
Associate Professor

Science Librarian

Areas of Responsibility Kistle Science Library, Reference and Instruction, Collection Development Consulting Areas Biological Chemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Environmental Studies, Linguistics, Mathematics and Statistics, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology.
Phillip Jones
Associate Professor

Humanities Librarian and Coordinator of Research Services

Areas of Responsibility Coordinates reference and instruction services Consulting Areas English, Philosophy; Religious Studies; Spanish. Concentrations: American Studies and Latin American Studies
Christopher Jones
Associate Professor

Special Collections Librarian and Archivist of the College

Consulting Areas European Studies, History, and Prairie Studies
Cecilia Knight
Associate Professor

Librarian (Senior Faculty Status)

Cecilia Knight is an Associate Professor in the Libraries at Grinnell College. She is very involved in digital scholarship efforts at Grinnell College including the institutional repository, Digital Grinnell, and many digital projects on campus as a librarian with a specialization in organization...
Laura Michelson
Assistant Professor

Project Archivist

Laura Michelson (she/they) is the Project Archivist working with the Salisbury House Library Collection at Grinnell College Special Collections. Her project term began in August 2020 and is through the summer of 2024. As Project Archivist, they are working to curate the SHLC by integrating it into...
Petrouchka Moïse
Assistant Professor

Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator

Dr. Petrouchka Moïse is Assistant Professor / Cultural & Community-based Digital Curator at Grinnell College Libraries. As an artist/scholar, she teaches classes on visual and material culture and curatorial studies, focusing on the Caribbean. In her role as Cultural and Community-Based Digital...
Kayla Reed
Assistant Professor

Discovery, Systems, & Digital Strategy Librarian

Kayla Reed’s research and teaching focuses on diversity and LGBTQ+ issues, with a focus on Asexuality, intersection, and cooperation of library departments, as well as emotional labor in the workforce. She attended Missouri Southern State University where she got her BA in Theatre, English...
Liz Rodrigues
Associate Professor

Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian (On leave FY24-FA25)

Liz Rodrigues is Associate Professor, Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian. Liz’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of critical digital studies , digital humanities practice, and twentieth-century multiethnic U.S. literatures . Her book, Collecting Lives: Critical Data...
Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
Associate Professor

Science Librarian

Gina Schlesselman-Tarango (she/her) is an interdisciplinary librarian and scholar who writes about critical information literacy in academic libraries and the gender and racial dynamics at play in information work more broadly. Her work has appeared in Exploring Equitable and Inclusive Pedagogies...

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