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When women contribute to medical research, that research is more likely to include consideration of sex and gender, including the differences between the way men and women react to diseases and treatments, research shows.
The paper also…
In January of 2005, at a conference sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Lawrence Summers, then the president of Harvard, sought to address the lack of tenured female faculty in university science departments. After promising to…
The Stanford Daily (TSD): What brought you to Stanford?
Rowan Dorin (RD): There’s a wonderful community of medievalists, early modernists at Stanford — which is somewhat surprising for what one might expect here in the heart of Silicon…
BY ALEX SHASHKEVICH
The issues of inequality and divisiveness that the United States faces today share many parallels with a period of time after the Civil War which also faced rising inequality, heavy immigration and partisan deadlock.…
As of this fall, the Stanford Humanities Center supports about 50 scholars annually, more than any other humanities institute in the country.
Caroline Winterer, director of the Stanford Humanities Center, speaks to a class…
Norman Naimark, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and an expert on Eastern Europe and genocides throughout history, brings his considerable expertise to Uncommon Knowledge to discuss the history of genocides from ancient to modern times.…
Stanford senior LAUREN KILLINGSWORTH has been recognized by an international undergraduate awards program for her research on cholera maps in 19th-century Europe.
Killingsworth’s research paper was named a 2017 Global Winner by The…
Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian traces the establishment of Mexican social clubs and the funds they raised for their hometowns between the 1960s and 1980s.
Ana Raquel Minian
The Ghadar movement cultivated strong ties of solidarity with Egyptian, Irish, and other anti-colonial movements. Competing visions of the future world order coexisted with common dissatisfaction with the contemporary world order. Ghadar linked…
In her new book, Stanford historian Londa Schiebinger examines the development of medical knowledge and experiments conducted on slaves in British and French colonies between the 1760s and early 1800s.
Stanford historian…
