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The Richard W. Lyman Award recognizes one outstanding faculty member who generously donates time to alumni, goes beyond the expectations of university appointments and embodies the Stanford Alumni Association mission.
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Professor Paula Findlen has received a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for her Global Florence: The World of Francesco Carletti, 1573-1636/Firenze globale: il mondo di Francesco Carletti, 1573-1636.
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Adele Stock is a 6th year PhD candidate in Africa History with interests in environment, urban infrastructure, and religious life. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Kampala is a Swamp: Power, Placemaking, and Devotion, 1900-2025” traces…
Prof Ana Raquel Minian Andjel's Congressional testimony is shaping the academic and public discourse on immigration and deportation in the U.S. history
Cornelius Torp joins the Stanford History Department in Winter 2025 as the Kratter Visiting Professor in European History. A specialist in modern German and European history, he has published and taught widely on the history of trade policy in…
Olavo Passos de Souza is a 6th year Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American History and Transnational, International and Global History (TIG) with a focus on early 19th century political ideas and forms of governance. His dissertation, tentatively…
The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award
Matthew Sommer, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Looking back at a lifelong engagement with…
They became “neighborhood anchors,” said Pedro A. Regalado, an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University and the author of the forthcoming book, “Nueva York: Making the Modern City.”
They sold nostalgia: rice, beans,…
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History students celebrated Democracy Day with a trip to the Barchas Room in Green Library. Led by Professor Caroline Winterer, they explored an “American History petting zoo” of 32 curated objects on display. Objects ranged from the only book…
Professor Rowan Dorin's book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, was named the finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the field of Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History &…
