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Leadership & Administrative Service

Drawing on her research on inquiry and higher education, Greyser approaches leadership and academic service as part of a broad commitment to building a more just and generative academy. 

This work has included her directorship of a longstanding research institute, active contribution to shared governance as a faculty senate officer, and, in collaboration with the President and Provost, director of an initiative on freedom of inquiry and the value of universities in public life.

  • Provost’s Research & Administrative Fellow | Obermann Center for Advanced Studies (2024-25)

  • Mellon Foundation Fellow | Humane Metrics Initiative (2022-23)

  • Faculty Senate Secretary | University of Iowa (2025-26)

  • Executive Director, POROI | Iowa’s Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry (2014-present)

  • Associate Director of Academic Programs | NCFDD (2020-2025)

  • Obermann Center Advisory Board (2018-21; ex-officio 2024-25)

  • Humanities for the Public Good Board Member | Obermann Center

  • Director of Graduate Studies |  Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (2018-23) 

  • Chair, General Education Literature Program Assessment | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, University of Iowa (2024-25) 

  • Ford Fellow | Writing Workshop, Wesleyan University (1995-96)