1. Classes
  2. Spring 2024: the latest Rootstalk class. HUM/SST 295-01
  3. Spring 2023: HUM/SST 295-01
  4. Spring 2022: HUM/SST 295
  5. The Spring 2021 term was divided into two parts due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  6. The Fall 2020 term was divided into two parts due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  7. The Spring 2020 term was a challenging time due to the COVID-19 pandemic
  8. Spring 2019
  9. Fall 2018
  10. Spring 2018
  11. Fall 2017
  12. Spring 2017
  13. Fall 2016
  14. Spring 2016
  15. Fall 2015
  16. Fall 2014: the first Rootstalk class
  1. Issues
  2. The ‘current’ issue, it was published under our new digital-first workflow into our static platform “early” in the Summer of 2024.
  3. This was published directly into an improved static platform in the Summer of 2023.
  4. This was published directly into an improved static platform in the Summer of 2022.
  5. This issue was published directly into our static platform in the Summer of 2021.
  6. This issue transitioned to our static platform in the Summer of 2022.
  7. This issue transitioned to our static platform in the Summer of 2022.
  8. This issue transitioned to our static platform in the Summer of 2022.
  9. This issue was the first to appear on our static platform.
  10. This issue was the first to transition fully from our old site to this static platform.
  11. This issue was the second to transition from our old site to this static platform.
  12. This issue was the transitioned from our old site to this static platform during the 2021-22 academic year.
  13. This issue was the transitioned from our old site to this static platform during the 2021-22 academic year.
  14. This issue is transitioned to our new static platform in the Fall of 2022.
  15. This issue transitioned to our new static platform in the Summer of 2022.
  16. The inaugural issue was the last to transition to our static platform during the Fall 2022 term.
  1. Milestones
  2. Since its inception in 2013, Rootstalk has been a team effort. Students, alumni, staff, and faculty alike are involved in its creation. But in the last year, one student has been particularly active behind the scenes of Rootstalk: Mikey O’Connor ’24.
  3. Lisa Schulte Moore, Iowa State University and co-author of a piece of content in the Spring 2015 issue of ROOTSTALK, named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow by the MacArthur Foundation.
  4. Rootstalk was awarded a grant from the Wilson Program in Entrepreneurship to continue publishing for another year.
  5. An exploratory grant from the Innovation Fund was awarded to initiate work on the journal.
  1. Digital
  2. Vivero Fellow Michael O’Connor (Class of 2024) completed all of our past-issue PDF-to-Markdown transition, proposed the creation of this timeline feature as well as our new submissions portal, and an image editing tool, and subsequently assisted in their development.
  3. Alumna turned volunteer, Mackenzie McFate (Class of 2018), returned to assist with PDF-to-Markdown translation of content for Volume IX, Issue 1, created in the Spring of 2023.
  4. Vivero Fellow Senay Gokcebel (Class of 2022) assisted with PDF-to-Markdown workflow development and transitioning Rootstalk issues to our Hugo static platform.
  5. Student employee Alina Guha (Class of 2023) assisted with PDF-to-Markdown workflow development and transitioning Rootstalk issues to our Hugo static platform.
  6. Student employee Jeremy Sparagon (Class of 2020) assisted with redesign and transitioning Rootstalk to a Hugo static platform.
  7. Student volunteer Mackenzie McFate (Class of 2018) assisted with the creation of VAF, the first Hugo static website at Grinnell College and a forerunner to this digital edition of Rootstalk. Mackenzie continues making contributions to the Rootstalk workflow and digital features like this timeline.
  8. Student employee Tapiwa Zvidwa (Class of 2019) assisted with development of Rootstalk as a Drupal 8 CMS website rendering articles from PDF files.
  9. Student employee Bazli Mupisiri (Class of 2018) assisted with development of Rootstalk as a Drupal 8 CMS website rendering articles from PDF files.