Our Staff

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. 

Anna Verhaeghe graduated from Montana State in 2019 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. After, skiing, soul searching, and some work too, she found herself back at Montana State excited to support the mission of the Ivan Doig Center. She has a profound love of the North American West as a place and an idea. Anna continuously applies an interdisciplinary lens to her work and studies, often finding herself at the crossroads of science, people, and place. As a graduate student in the Montana State Earth Science program, she studies the impacts of wildfire on snow hydrology. In her precious and sparse free time, she enjoys, skiing, backpacking, days on the river, and cuddling with her dogs Rook and Arlo. 

Gracie Caldwell is a Senior at Montana State University studying Environmental Science. Involved in climate action, student leadership development, and politics, her academic interests focus on the ways humans and the environment interact- particularly in policy, urban development, and security settings. Outside of academics, Gracie loved line dancing and baking for classmates, co-workers, and friends. Gracie is deeply involved across campus, previously serving as presidents of Citizens’ Climate Lobby MSU, Campus Climate Coalition MSU, and Grow Our World MSU.