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Elizabeth Jacob (Stanford PhD, 2022) is Assistant Professor of History at University of Massachusetts- Amherst. A historian of modern West Africa, she works on gender, family, decolonization, pan-Africanism, French-African relations, and global…

Jon Cooper is a 7th year Ph.D. candidate in British History focusing on political economy and empire. His dissertation, ‘Dealing with Money: A Genealogy of Economic Theology in England, c. 1542-1623,” is supported by a 2024-25 Stanford Humanities…

History alum Prof. David Fedman (Stanford Ph.D. 2015) spoke to the Eurasian Empires Reading Group on May 12, presenting a paper titled "Shadows in the Forest: The Ōji Paper Company and Japan's Pulp Pipeline in Asia." He is Associate Professor in…

Professor Londa Schiebinger was featured in the Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese daily newspaper founded in 1879. It is one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. The interview was from her…

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Episode 3 of Cite and Sound, The Stanford Jewish Studies Podcast is out today! Hear from visiting Professor of European History, Edward Loss, on what he learned about Jewish life by exploring document fragments from fifteenth-century Bologna…

Austin Clements is a 6th year PhD Candidate in U.S. History field, studying cultural and intellectual history of religion, political extremism, fascism, and white supremacy. He has been a recipient of American Religions in a Global Context…

Narusa Yamato is 6th year Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History. Interested in the history of science and material culture, her work probes the  relationship between imperialism, nation building, and capitalism by studying the history of the…

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Jair Bolsonaro is now awaiting trial on charges of plotting a coup, depriving Brazil’s far-right bloc of its figurehead. Yet with a presidential election due next year, the Brazilian left hasn’t found a candidate who can match Lula’s popular…

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Intersectionality describes interdependent systems of inequality related to sex, gender, race, age, class and other socio-political dimensions. By focusing on the compounded effects of social categories, intersectional analysis can enhance the…

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In a Nature article, Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger and a global, multidisciplinary group of co-authors argue that analyzing the ways different types of inequality can intersect in people’s lives will improve natural science and…