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The Association of American Publishers’ annual PROSE Awards recognize ‘significant contributions’ in scholarly publishing and the 2024 PROSE Award in Government and Politics was awarded to Professor Gabrielle Hecht's newest book, Residual…
Theresa Iker specializes in modern American politics, gender, and culture. She received her Ph.D. in History, with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), from Stanford University in 2023, where she now serves as a School of…
In this conversation, Professor Londa Schiebinger, a professor of History of Science at Stanford University and the Director of Gendered Innovation in Science, Health, and Medicine, Engineering, and Environmental Projects, shares her insights…
I grew up in North Carolina and pursued a BA in history at Stanford University. Most of my historical work focused on the intersection of early modern science and colonial ventures, but some time away from college working in the labor movement…
Silvia Sebastiani joins Stanford History Department in Winter 2024 as Kratter Visiting Professor in European History. An expert in Scottish Enlightenment, Professor Sebastiani studies the entangled networks of animals, slaves and material…
Sabelo Mlangeni, a South African photographer, was Stanford’s Denning Visiting Artist in the fall of 2023. He and history professor Joel Cabrita collaborated on...
A fall quarter collaboration between Stanford historian Joel Cabrita and photographer Sabelo Mlangeni explores religion, identity, and community.
The paths of South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni and Stanford historian Joel Cabrita…
When the highest stakes water negotiations in a century opened this fall, the largest, most powerful state — California — was represented by the youngest person at the table, a 27-year-old named John Brooks Hamby, who graduated from college…
A Javier Milei banner on November 30, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Tomas Cuesta / Getty Images)
Javier Milei, who takes office today, prioritized economic over cultural issues in his campaign, unlike his Brazilian kindred spirit Jair Bolsonaro. But the two far-right leaders both reflect the destructive spirit of neoliberalism in its…
April 26, 2022: Sen. Bob Menendez, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, looks on during a committee budget hearing. Credit: (Bonnie Cash/Pool...
[Editor’s note: This article has been updated with comments from U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez sent after publication.]
In 1954, a year into the Cuban Revolution, Bob Menendez was born in New York City to Cuban émigrés — a seamstress and…
Ph.D. candidate Carolyn Zola received a Dissertation Fellowship through the Library Company of Philadelphia, Program in Early American Economy and Society and also an American Dissertation Fellowship through the Association of American…
