Wendy Griswold

Wendy Griswold, Professor of Sociology and Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities in the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences at Northwestern, is also affiliated with Comparative Literary Studies, English, the Program of African Studies, and Media, Technology and Society in the School of Communications at Northwestern. She directs the interdisciplinary Culture and Society Workshop.

Griswold's work currently includes 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 twelve countries; organizing a research symposium on "Global and Local Strategies of Twenty-First Century African Artists"; and studying the changing images of Saint Jerome over a thousand years of European art.

Griswold holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard and a Master’s Degree in English from Duke. She has previously taught at Harvard and at the University of Chicago and has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, and at IMT Lucca, Italy. She is on the academic boards for the cultural sociology programs at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Cattolica University in Milan, Italy.