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Interview by Mariana Calvo from December 10, 2024
We had the pleasure of speaking with Sonya Schoenberger, a PhD Candidate in Transnational, International, and Global History and a JD Candidate at Yale Law School, about her experiences as…
Interview by Mariana Calvo from March 14, 2025
We had the pleasure of speaking with Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, a PhD Candidate in the U.S. field, about her experiences as a recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation…
Jonathan Connolly, Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago (Stanford PhD/JD, 2017) has won the Stansky Book Prize for his new book, Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation.…
Alina Bykova is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in Russian and East European History with a focus on Soviet environmental history, energy, and mining industry in the Arctic. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and an M.…
Koji Hirata is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Monash University in Australia and Zijiang Visiting Scholar at East China Normal University. A graduate of Stanford History Department (Ph.D. 2018), he worked as a Junior Research Fellow at…
Student Reports for Summer Intensive Language Grants (2025)
James Terrasi | Catalan
Universitat de Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Kayra Guven | Modern Standard Arabic
Fes, Morocco
Bailey Martin | Dutch
Leiden…
Historian and professor, at Stanford University, Dr. Gordon H. Zhang explains the participation of Chinese immigrants in the building of modern America. From rail, to rockets, to our world today, Chinese Americans make America great.
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Joseph Seeley (Stanford History Ph.D. 2019) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A specialist in the histories of Korea, the Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments and borderlands, Seeley is the author of Border…
Philip Roth: Stung by Life, a new biography by Stanford historian Steven J. Zipperstein, took years of research—and encouragement from Roth himself.
Philip Roth, the giant of American literature, has already been the subject of…
Originalism has had unparalleled impact as a legal theory. Since Justice Antonin Scalia’s famous claim that the Constitution is “dead, dead, dead,” it has become the dominant theory on the U.S. Supreme Court. At its core, Originalism promises to…
