Members of the Northwestern University faculty have been appointed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an organization that honors individuals who make significant strides in the fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences. Professor Wendy Griswold was part of the most recent group elected to join the academy.
Griswold is the Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and professor of sociology. Her areas of interest include cultural sociology, comparative sociology of reading and literature, urban representations, and African cultures.
Griswold is the author of several books including American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture (The University of Chicago Press, 2016); Cultures and Societies in a Changing World, fourth edition, (SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012); and Regionalism and the Reading Class(The University of Chicago Press, 2008).
She is currently writing a book on American cultural regionalism, the third volume of a trilogy on culture and place, with a focus on the Mississippi Delta; working on a comparative study of the reading practices of educated youth in 12 countries; organizing a research symposium on “Global and Local Strategies of 21st-Century African Artists”; and studying the changing images of St. Jerome over a thousand years of European art.
Griswold also directs the Culture and Society Workshop, an interdisciplinary workshop for advanced graduate students and faculty whose research involves the connections between culture and society.
Learn more in Northwestern Now’s article, Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.