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Anubha Anushree, PhD candidate in the Department of History, is awarded the inaugural Stanford Humanities Center Career Launch Fellowship.
In April 2021, the Stanford Humanities Center established the Career Launch Fellowship program to…
Sabauon Nasseri, graduate student in the Department of History, is awarded the 2021 Steven and Debi Wisch Fellowship for Graduate Research in South Asian Studies from the Center for South Asia at Stanford University
The Wisch Fellowship …
Immediately after his summit meeting with Vladimir Putin on June 15, President Biden righteously asked global audiences: “How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of…
Riccardo Bettazzoni for Noema Magazine
Winston Churchill was always ambitious for attention. Today he occupies a central place in heated disputes about the past and present of racism, and whether to celebrate or redeem Britain’s imperial history.
In March, protests against…
Arab protesters travelling to Amman for a demonstration against the Balfour Declaration of 1917, promising the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, Jordan...
Last month, as Israeli artillery destroyed buildings in Gaza, one of two slivers of territory into which Palestinians have been squeezed over the last century, the British government was once again asserting the benevolence of its imperial past…
Supported by endowment and general funds, the following students were recipients of VPGE fellowships:
EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship: Janice Ndegwa VPGE Academic Achievement Award for the Native…
President Biden announced seven key nominees yesterday, which included Dr. Clayborne Carson to the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board.
In the announcement, the White House wrote, "Clayborne Carson has devoted most of his professional…
An abandoned diamond mine in the Restricted Diamond Area in Namibia in 2011.
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Between 1904 and 1908, Germany’s military and leadership oversaw the killing of at least 80,000 Africans in what is now the independent country of Namibia. On May 28, Germany apologized. Declaring his country’s past violence in Namibia “genocidal…
Historian THOMAS MULLANEY has donated his collection of East Asian information technology to the Stanford Libraries.
The resulting Thomas S. Mullaney East Asian Information Technology History Collection is thought to be the only one of…
When Stanford University began planning for a Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicityin the early 1990s, the nation was reeling from myriad racial issues: A video of police beating Rodney King, a Black man, had gone viral and…
