Director

Daniel Grant is the Director of the Ivan Doig Center and teaches history at Montana State University. He is a historian, geographer, writer, and publicly engaged educator focused primarily on the lands and peoples of the North American West. At the Doig Center, he convenes dialogue on pressing issues and across boundaries, facilitates public-facing research, teaching, and creative work, and builds partnerships across MSU, Montana, and the West. He has previously held various teaching, research, and administrative appointments, including at MSU, Harvard University, and Middlebury College. His writing has appeared in a range of scholarly and popular venues, and he is completing his first book, No Man's Land: Unsettled Ground in the American West. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, much of his adult life has been rooted in the Intermountain West and Midwest. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. from Whitman College.