Each year the Calvin community is enriched by the presence of several visiting scholars. This year we are pleased to welcome:
Garrett Crow
Dr. Crow taught botany and taxonomy for 33 years at the University of New Hampshire and served as Director of the UNH Herbarium and chair of the UNH Department of Plant Biology. He has taught at Au Sable Institute and more recently has been serving as curator of the 茄子视频 Herbarium. Additionally, he does botanical research at the Michigan State University Herbarium-recently having completed the taxonomic treatment of Utricularia (bladderworts) and Pinguicula (butterworts) for Flora of North America North of Mexico.
While having a broad interest in floristics (including botanical expeditions to Tierra del Fuego, Siberia, Crimea and Caucasus, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Amazonia, and Mexico), much of his research has focused on aquatic plants of temperate and neotropical regions. He is co-author of Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America (G.E. Crow and C. B. Hellquist, Univ. Wisconsin Press), the second edition of which will be published in 2023. In 1999-2000 he spent a year-long sabbatical in Costa Rica under a Fulbright Fellowship where he wrote a bilingual field guide, Plantas acu谩ticus de Parque Nacional Palo Verde, Costa Rica (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Rica). Garrett and David Warners (Calvin Biology Department) direct the Emma Cole Project, an effort to visit and evaluate all the sites Emma Cole describes in her 1901 book, Fora of Grand Rapids.
Hosted by the Biology Department, September 2013 to June 2026, Crow CV | garrett.crow@calvin.edu
Amelia DoDoo
Amelia Dodoo is an educational consultant and scholar from Accra, Ghana, currently serving as a Visiting Scholar at 茄子视频鈥檚 Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity. A graduate of the University of Ghana, she brings extensive experience in education, leadership development, and faith-based learning initiatives across West Africa.
Her research focuses on the intersection of education, faith, and social transformation, exploring how Christian education can foster character formation, community engagement, and leadership among youth and women. Through her residency at the Nagel Institute, Dodoo contributes to global conversations on Christian scholarship, pedagogy, and the role of education in shaping flourishing societies in the Global South.
Hosted by the , October 2025 to January 2026, | amelia.dodoo@calvin.edu
Fred Van Dyke
Fred Van Dyke is a conservation biologist dedicated to the care for God鈥檚 creation. At state, national, and international levels, Fred has been a wildlife biologist in Montana, a consultant to the US National Park Service, a private environmental consultant, and a contributor to the United Nations Development Programme in ecological restoration. Formerly Chair of the Wheaton College Department of Biology and Director of its Environmental Studies Program, Fred is also a past Executive Director of the Au Sable Institute, a Christian faith-based organization and international voice for the Christian community in conservation efforts. At Au Sable Fred developed curricula for college students as well as research collaborations with government, industry, and Native American Tribal Nations. Fred joined the Calvin Visiting Scholars program in 2023 working on his most recent book, Conservation in the Anthropocene: Saving Nature in a Human-Dominated World(Routledge 2025). His textbook, Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications (Springer 2020), now in its third edition, is used by students worldwide. He returns to Calvin鈥檚 Visiting Scholar Program to work on his fourth edition of this textbook, co-authored with Rachel Lamb, slated for publication with Springer in 2027. Hosted by the , September 2023 to November 2026, fred.vandyke@calvin.edu
Lambert Zuidervaart
Lambert Zuidervaart is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, the University of Toronto, and the Toronto School of Theology, and a former faculty member at 茄子视频 (1985-2002) and The King鈥檚 University in Edmonton (1981-1985). He is an internationally recognized expert in critical theory, especially the work of Theodor Adorno, and a leading systematic philosopher in the reformational tradition.
His most recent work articulates a new conception of truth for an allegedly post-truth society, in two volumes: Social Domains of Truth: Science, Politics, Art, and Religion (Routledge, 2023) and Truth in Husserl, Heidegger, and the Frankfurt School: Critical Retrieval (MIT Press, 2017). His other writings include three volumes of essays in reformational philosophy published by McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press: Shattering Silos: Reimagining Knowledge, Politics, and Social Critique (2022), Art, Education, and Cultural Renewal (2017), and Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation (2016); and two books on aesthetics published by Cambridge University Press: Art in Public: Politics, Economics, and a Democratic Culture (2011) and Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure (2004).
He has also written two literary memoirs to honor canine companions: To Sing Once More: Sorrow, Joy, and the Dog I Loved (2021) and Dog-Kissed Tears (2010). Dr. Zuidervaart is currently doing research on what the world鈥檚 religions can contribute to the development of an Earth-sustaining and life-giving global ethic.
Hosted by the Philosophy Department, July 2013 to August 2028, Zuidervaart CV | zuid@calvin.edu