Congratulations to the Class of 2025!
Stanford's Department of History will be hosting its commencement ceremony at Lane History Corner in Citrus Courtyard on Sunday, June 15, 2025 from 12:30pm - 2:30pm (PDT). Refreshments will be served.
Citrus Courtyard is behind History Corner (Bldg. 200) at 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305. Please see the map below, showing walking instructions from the University Commencement Ceremony (Stanford Stadium) to Citrus Courtyard.
In the interest of health and safety and our Stanford residential community, if you feel sick or test positive for COVID-19, please do not attend any events or visit campus. The main Commencement ceremony will be livestreamed for anyone who is unable to attend. Visit the Stanford University Health Alerts website for current guidance and updates.
We in Stanford Department of History look forward to celebrating our graduates’ accomplishments. While we firmly support freedom of speech, disturbances to the ceremony will not be tolerated. If you would like to express your opinion on an issue, please do so in White Plaza, Stanford's free speech zone (directions & info). Thank you for respecting this celebratory moment for our graduates and their guests.
For a list of awards that will be announced at the ceremony, please visit the Awards and Accomplishments page.
2025 Commencement Speeches
- Professor Thomas S. Mullaney
- Undergraduate Speaker: Novia Jichu Liu
- Graduate Speaker: Caryce Chepchirchir Tirop
2025 B.A. Graduates
MAJORS
Arynn Carty (Honors) ~ Nilou Davis ~ Draper Dayton (Honors) ~ Zelig Dov (Honors) ~ Zoe Edelman
Lily Forman (Honors) ~ Moisés González De La Rosa ~ Oscar Hodder ~ Alexa Kupor (Honors)
Julia Lasiota ~ Novia Jichu Liu (Honors) ~ Ellie Luchini ~ Arjun Maheshwari (Honors) ~ Daniel McFadden
Evan Miksovsky (Honors) ~ Anna Moller (Honors) ~ Jacqueline Munis ~ Nina Nguyen ~ Bruce Owdom
April Pacheco ~ Samiya Rana (Honors) ~ Ines Salter ~ Eliza Sandell ~ John Shelburne ~ William Stockwell
Theo Strauss ~ Jessica Susanto ~ Marguerite Vasy (Honors) ~ Anna Wang
MINORS
Ryan Beyer ~ Ingrid Chen ~ Adrian Feinberg ~ Raghav Ganesh ~ Vedant Garg
Scott Ingall ~ Janene Kim ~ Jacob Maikkula ~ Emma Martinez Sutton
Temitope Oshodi ~ Nicholas Reisner ~ Andrew Solganik ~ Julia Steinberg
Sherry Xie ~ Josh Yoon
2025 M.A. Graduates
Oluwatobi Bankole ~ Ethan Dang ~ Kaitlynn Norton ~ Suchang Wu
2025 Ph.D. Graduates
Lauren Adams
Redemptive Transgressions: Sexual Boundary-Crossing in Saints’ Lives and Religious Literature, ca. 1050-1250
Advisor: Professor Fiona Griffiths
William Tanner Allread
Republics Within a Republic: Tribal Constitutions and Sovereignty Conflicts in the Era of Southern Indian Removal
Advisors: Professors Jonathan Gienapp & Kathryn Olivarius
Lane Baker
The Lords of Little Egypt: Romani Immigrants and Travelers in the Holy Roman Empire, 1417–1498
Advisor: Professor Rowan Dorin
Alin Theodor Constantin
Communism and Jewish Intellectuals in Romania
Advisor: Professor Steven Zipperstein
Claudius Kim
Revolution on the Move: Korean Migrants and Sino-Korean Relations in Trans-War East Asia, 1932-58
Advisors: Professors Yumi Moon & Thomas Mullaney
Natalie Larah
Strange Indirections: Intellectual War Work and the Doctoring of American Democratic Thought, 1940-1946
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Burns
Sierra Nota
Expropriating Ukraine: State Property Regimes from the Russian Empire to the Maidan
Advisor: Professor Amir Weiner
Matthew Alexander Randolph
Harboring Freedom: African American Migration and Imperial Rivalries in Samaná Bay, 1822-1871
Advisors: Professor Zephyr Frank & Allyson Hobbs
Caryce Chepchirchir Tirop
Running the Nation: Athletics and the International Politics of Decolonization and Nation Building in Kenya, 1945-2000
Advisors: Professor Joel Cabrita & Emerit Professor Richard Roberts
Morgan Tufan
Kurdish Autonomy and the Making of the Ottoman-Safavid Frontier in the Sixteenth Century
Advisor: Professor Ali Yaycıoğlu
Directions to Citrus Courtyard & Parking
Citrus Courtyard is located behind the History Corner (Bldg. 200) at 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 200, Stanford, CA 94305. The map below shows walking instructions from the University Commencement Ceremony at Stanford Stadium to the Citrus Courtyard. You are also welcome to take the Marguerite Shuttle, which runs along Jane Stanford Way that day. Please take the "C Line" shuttles and get off at either the "Jane Stanford Way/Stanford Oval" stop or the "Jane Stanford Way/Lasuen Mall" stop and look for the Department of History banners.
Parking: The campus is extremely busy on Commencement Day. Please give yourself plenty of time to arrive and find parking. The closest parking spaces are located at Stanford Oval | Galvez Lot (L-96) | Track House Lot | Graduate School of Business (Parking Structure 7)
