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We had the opportunity to speak with Mariana Calvo, a fifth-year PhD candidate in Transnational, International, and Global History and coordinator of the Stanford Environmental and Climate History Workshop, about her dissertation project and…
Annelise Heinz (Stanford History PhD 2015) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. She is primarily a historian of modern America whose research focuses on the intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. Her…
Farah Bazzi is an 8th year Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history. Her work aims to bridge Mediterranean and Atlantic history with a focus on environmental thought, race, indigeneity, cosmology, cartography, and technologies of conquest.…
Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin is a PhD candidate of history at Stanford University and current Thomas D. Dee II Graduate Fellow with Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the American West. Her research examines the Black experience in Northern…
This dissertation examines the entangled geography of mineral extraction from the 1870s through the onset of the “Great Acceleration” in the mid-20th century. Focusing on sulfur, a key input to Britain’s Industrial Revolution and the intensive…
In this lecture marking "America at 250," Stanford Professor Priya Satia will examine alternative forms of republicanism prevalent in the eighteenth century that were eclipsed in the era of the American revolution and colonial conquest. Erasure…
Could Cuba become America’s next geopolitical flashpoint?
Cuba remains one of the most politically charged issues in American foreign policy. More than 60 years after the Cuban Revolution, debates around sanctions, regime change, and…
Dr. Gil-li Vardi was awarded the Teaching Excellence Award by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society, which is given to teachers nominated by their students.
Professor Londa Schiebinger was nominated by the President and Fellows of Harvard University to receive the Centennial Medal of the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her significant contribution to…
Gil-li Vardi is Core Lecturer at Stanford History Department in Transnational, International, and Global History with a specific focus on military history, military thought and practice, and organizational change. Professor Vardi’s current…
