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Professor Joel Cabrita's most recent book, Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala, was awarded the prize for best biography by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Congratulations Professor Cabrita!

Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste's most recent book, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, was awarded the David H. Pinkney Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies; this award is given to the…

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…

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…

John F. Kennedy took George Plimpton by surprise after a dinner party one evening when he pulled his friend aside for a word in the Oval Office. The president had Reconstruction on his mind—really, though, he wanted to discuss Plimpton’s…

Through studying the residues of South Africa’s mining industry – a core infrastructure of the apartheid regime – Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht shows how its deleterious effects continue.

While apartheid – South Africa’s brutal racial…