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Adele Stock is a 6th year PhD candidate in Africa History with interests in environment, urban infrastructure, and religious life. Her dissertation, tentatively titled “Kampala is a Swamp: Power, Placemaking, and Devotion, 1900-2025” traces…
Prof Ana Raquel Minian Andjel's Congressional testimony is shaping the academic and public discourse on immigration and deportation in the U.S. history
Cornelius Torp joins the Stanford History Department in Winter 2025 as the Kratter Visiting Professor in European History. A specialist in modern German and European history, he has published and taught widely on the history of trade policy in…
Olavo Passos de Souza is a 6th year Ph.D. Candidate in Latin American History and Transnational, International and Global History (TIG) with a focus on early 19th century political ideas and forms of governance. His dissertation, tentatively…
The Peter Gonville Stein Book Award
Matthew Sommer, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024)
Looking back at a lifelong engagement with…
From late September to mid-October 2025, Moroccans across the country descended into the streets to once again demand change from their government. Under the banner of a leaderless youth coalition dubbed the Gen Z 212 Movement (after Morocco’s…
They became “neighborhood anchors,” said Pedro A. Regalado, an assistant professor of American history at Stanford University and the author of the forthcoming book, “Nueva York: Making the Modern City.”
They sold nostalgia: rice, beans,…
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History students celebrated Democracy Day with a trip to the Barchas Room in Green Library. Led by Professor Caroline Winterer, they explored an “American History petting zoo” of 32 curated objects on display. Objects ranged from the only book…
Professor Rowan Dorin's book, No Return: Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe, was named the finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in the field of Medieval & Early Modern Jewish History &…
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes learning and honors outstanding scholarly excellence and intellectual courage in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering, as well as in the arts and the…
