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Stanford Report, July 15, 2013
PhD candidate Annelise Heinz tracks the intersection of race and gender in 20th-century American culture through a study of the game of mahjong.BY ASHLEY WALTERS
The Humanities at Stanford
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March may be women's history month, but April was the month for women's historians. Three Stanford historians, all associated with the Clayman Institute, received national recognition for their work on women and gender.
On April 24, Londa…
Through a study of late 19th-century Chinese maps, doctoral student Eric Vanden Bussche has discovered border development origins that offer a new historical perspective on China's territorial disputes today.
BY RACHEL SMITH
The…
By: Op Ed The Stanford Daily - May 28, 2014
What do three engineering students, a history seminar class and…
On January 16, 2014, Robert Proctor was invited to the White House to celebrate the release of the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. Proctor, who served as a Senior Scientific Reviewer for the report, is cited…
Speaking at the Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching lecture series, history Professor James Campbell underscores the value of historical knowledge in a tech-centric world and draws attention to the academic possibilities that interdisciplinary…
For generations, the training of history PhD candidates has remained relatively static. Graduate students are expected to research and publish book-length dissertations with the ultimate goal of obtaining a tenure-track position at a four-year…
Stanford Report, May 9, 2014Stanford juniors to explore leadership in new September Studies program
Leadership Intensive will become Stanford's fifth September Studies program, joining Arts Intensive, Bing Honors College, Sophomore College…
American Academy of Arts and Sciences elects 11 Stanford professors to 2014 class
The academy is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies, and a leading center for independent policy research.
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History Professor Mikael Wolfe discusses Mexico's groundwater depletion and its relationship to migration in the article "Mexican state of Guanajuato suffering poor water quality, erosion issues" by Molly Peterson (Take Two, December 19th, 2013…
