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My name is Arjan Walia, and I am from a suburb of Los Angeles called Saugus, CA. I came to Stanford in the fall of 2018 and graduated in the spring of 2022 with a…

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Precolonial kingdoms challenge our beliefs about people power and monarchies.

For Americans who rebelled against Britain’s King George III in 1775, monarchy was another name for tyranny—by definition, incompatible with democracy. This…

#AsiaNow speaks with Thomas S. Mullaney, Professor of History at Stanford University, and Christopher Rea, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, about their new book, Where Research Begins: Choosing a…

“At the start of the twelfth century,” writes Rowan Dorin, “western European rulers almost never resorted to the collective expulsions of wrongdoers from their domains; ecclesiastical authorities evinced little concern about the Jewish…

The Department of History at Stanford University invites applications for a 3-year Lecturer position in any sub-field and historical period. The teaching load is 6 undergraduate courses each academic year. Two of these courses will be offered…

Jonathan Gienapp of Stanford University and John Mikhail of Georgetown University Law Center joined JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes for a webinar on how James Wilson shaped our understanding of several notable areas of our constitutional…

Professor Sommer has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for research and writing leading to a book on criminal procedure in eighteenth-century China, based on archival records of 5,000 court cases.

Technology & Racial Equity Field Incubator

The Technology & Racial Equity Field Incubator will convene Stanford faculty to map the problem space at the intersection of technology and racial equity and identify key interventions to…

Paula Findlen is a historian of science and technology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the cultural and social history of science in early modern Europe, with an emphasis on Italy. She is the author of several books…

Undergraduate alum Arjan Walia (Stanford 2022) receives the 2023 Joan Nestle Prize from the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History (CLGBTH) for his "By and For Ourselves: Gay Men of Color and the…