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Dissertation: The Making of an Improbable Global Market: Coffee (1808-1850)
This fellowship, funded by the Tinker Foundation endowment and administered by the Center for Latin American Studies, supports Stanford doctoral students in…
How violent are liberal democracies these days? Authorities in the US are investigating what is possibly the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump of this presidential election campaign.
We ask about the probe and whether a…
The Constitution is a document of “We the People.” The ways Americans have supported, debated, and interpreted the Constitution since 1787 have played a vital role in the rise of politics and political parties within the United States.
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The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight of justices who self-describe as originalists.
In Against…
Cenizas del Antropoceno: omisiones de carbón y estratigrafía tóxica en Tocopilla (Chile)
Ashes of the Anthropocene: carbon omissions and toxic stratigraphy in Tocopilla (Chile)
This article offers a transdisciplinary critique of the…
With President Biden’s announcement that he will not run for re-election in November, all eyes have turned to his replacement. Many top Democrats, including Biden, have endorsed Vice-President Kamala Harris, leading to…
For several years in the 1990s, the company that brought you the Marlboro Man rolled billions of cigarettes on the grounds of the most notorious concentration camp. How could it be that cigarettes came to be made in a former death camp?…
Kathryn Olivarius, an assistant professor of history in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, recently received the Dan David Prize in recognition of her work on disease, citizenship, and economics in the 19th-century…
As the national conversation around former President Trump’s vice presidential pick intensifies, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) stands out as the only woman left on the reported shortlist. A pro-Israel, anti-abortion congresswoman…
Professor Dorin's first book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, has won the following prizes:
Salo Baron Book Prize | American Academy for Jewish Research
The Baron Prize…
