Rate My Professor Gantt Gurley

Gantt Gurley is Associate Professor in the Department of German and Scandinavian at the University of Oregon, where he has served since 2009, advancing from Visiting Assistant Professor to Assistant Professor in 2011 and Associate Professor in 2017. He is also Faculty Fellow in the Clark Honors College since 2022 and affiliated with the Folklore Program, Judaic Studies Program, Medieval Studies, and Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages. Gurley earned his B.A. in Economics from Bard College in 1994, M.A. in Scandinavian from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, and Ph.D. in Scandinavian from Berkeley in 2007. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, he lectured in Scandinavian at UC Berkeley from 2007 to 2008 and held the Harry Starr Fellowship in Judaica at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies from 2008 to 2009. His career includes guest scholarship at the University of Copenhagen's Georg Brandes Skolen from 2004 to 2005. Gurley has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellowship in 2012, CAS New Junior Faculty Award in 2011, Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship from UC Berkeley in 2006–2007, and CHC Faculty Fellowships for 2022–2025 and 2025–2028.