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Years ago, historian Tom Mullaney decided that he wanted not just to teach undergraduates about eras, cultures, and political shifts, but to involve them in the kind of work that historians do. With the Massively Multiplayer…
An Interview with Merve Tekgürler, Ph.D. Candidate in History and 2023-24 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow
Ph.D. candidate Merve Tekgürler is awarded one of the forty-five 2023-24 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowships…
Oral history collections provide rich evidence for understanding sexual harassment in the era before that term applied to unwanted sexual advances in schools and workplaces. Close reading of both speech and silence about sexual harassment in oral…
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
My name is Arjan Walia, and I am from a suburb of Los Angeles called Saugus, CA. I came to Stanford in the fall of 2018 and graduated in the spring of 2022 with a…
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Precolonial kingdoms challenge our beliefs about people power and monarchies.
For Americans who rebelled against Britain’s King George III in 1775, monarchy was another name for tyranny—by definition, incompatible with democracy. This…
#AsiaNow speaks with Thomas S. Mullaney, Professor of History at Stanford University, and Christopher Rea, Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, about their new book, Where Research Begins: Choosing a…
“At the start of the twelfth century,” writes Rowan Dorin, “western European rulers almost never resorted to the collective expulsions of wrongdoers from their domains; ecclesiastical authorities evinced little concern about the Jewish…
The Department of History at Stanford University invites applications for a 3-year Lecturer position in any sub-field and historical period. The teaching load is 6 undergraduate courses each academic year. Two of these courses will be offered…
Jonathan Gienapp of Stanford University and John Mikhail of Georgetown University Law Center joined JWI Founder & Director Hadley Arkes for a webinar on how James Wilson shaped our understanding of several notable areas of our constitutional…
Professor Sommer has been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for research and writing leading to a book on criminal procedure in eighteenth-century China, based on archival records of 5,000 court cases.
