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Since 1997 the Friends of the German Historical Institute have awarded the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Dissertations on all periods of…
Samuel Clowes Huneke (Stanford PhD 2019) is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University. A historian of modern Europe, he focuses on how everyday life intersects with and shapes the relationships between citizens and states. He has…
“America at 250,” a new one-unit course, brings together three faculty members every week to discuss democracy and governance, the economy, immigration and other issues related to the country’s founding.
The class, cross-listed in the…
The American Philosophical Society (APS) is proud to welcome our new Members elected to the Society in 2026. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields spanning STEM and the humanities. The…
Stanford historian and faculty director of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Rachel Jean-Baptiste merges the visionary with the pragmatic.
Working at nonprofits dedicated to international development,…
As AI reshapes our world, Stanford historian Rachel Jean-Baptiste emphasizes the need to address gender complexity in data and technology to ensure equitable representation.
Working at nonprofits dedicated to international development…
Nana Osei-Opare (AB/MA, History, 2011) is a historian of African, international, and Cold War histories. His first book, Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War (Cambridge, Nov. 2025), through the words…
The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin. Long associated with the idea that giraffes developed long necks because…
Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste has been awarded the 2026 Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians for her article "To Be Worthy of the Name of My Father: Métis, Paternity and Belonging in Twentieth and…
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Dinosaur bones reshaped how Americans see themselves — and their continent. Historian Caroline Winterer traces the deep time revolution and its darker consequences.
