Faculty Letter in Support of Fossil Fuel Divestment
Signatories: 379
January 11, 2015
Dear President Hennessy and the Stanford Board of Trustees,
We the undersigned, faculty of Stanford University, acknowledge the urgency of the scientific community’s warning that the burning of fossil fuels puts our world at risk. To prevent wide-spread ecological collapse we must limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Scientific consensus indicates that to stay within this 2-degree margin, we must cap carbon dioxide emissions at 565 gigatons. Because companies currently own fossil-fuel holdings sufficient to produce 2795 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the risk is clear: 2795 gigatons is five times the scientifically designated limit. In short, for companies to exploit these holdings—as they must, to turn a profit—would mean raising atmospheric carbon dioxide to cataclysmic levels.
Many of these fossil-fuel companies are publicly traded and investor-owned, supported in large part by institutional investors like Stanford. Professor James Engell of Harvard writes: “The fossil-fuel companies are decent investments only under two assumptions: first, the oil and gas and coal they own in the ground shall be sold and burned. Second, they shall continue to find more oil and gas and coal and shall sell that to be burned, too. Any investor in them must want this to happen, and any investor is putting up money to make this happen with all deliberate speed.”
We honor the May 2014 decision of the Stanford Board of Trustees to divest from coal, setting a precedent of responsibility and integrity commensurate with the University’s role in the world. Sixty-five percent of all carbon holdings are in coal reserves, and this significant act of divestment is proof of the university’s resolve to act to counter climate disruption. This resolve must now encompass the reality that, once coal is taken out of the equation, the remaining 35% reserves in oil and gas holdings still represent 978 gigatons of carbon, or nearly double the 565 gigaton cap. The urgency and magnitude of climate change call not for partial solutions, however admirable; they demand the more profound and thorough commitment embodied in divestment from all fossil-fuel companies.
The alternative—for Stanford to remain invested in oil and gas companies—presents us with a paradox: If a university seeks to educate extraordinary youth so they may achieve the brightest possible future, what does it mean for that university simultaneously to invest in the destruction of that future? Given that the university has signalled its awareness of the dangers posed by fossil fuels, what are the implications of Stanford’s making only a partial confrontation with this danger? In working with our students we encourage the clarity necessary to confront complex realities and the drive to carry projects through to completion. For Stanford’s investment policies to be congruent with the clarity and drive in its classrooms, the university must divest from all fossil-fuel companies. To this end we respectfully ask President Hennessy and the Board of Trustees to recognize the need for comprehensive divestment from fossil fuels. When it comes to the future our students will live to see, there is a scientifically documented, morally clear, technologically innovative right thing to do: divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in a sustainable future.
Sincerely yours,
Dear President Hennessy and the Stanford Board of Trustees,
We the undersigned, faculty of Stanford University, acknowledge the urgency of the scientific community’s warning that the burning of fossil fuels puts our world at risk. To prevent wide-spread ecological collapse we must limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Scientific consensus indicates that to stay within this 2-degree margin, we must cap carbon dioxide emissions at 565 gigatons. Because companies currently own fossil-fuel holdings sufficient to produce 2795 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the risk is clear: 2795 gigatons is five times the scientifically designated limit. In short, for companies to exploit these holdings—as they must, to turn a profit—would mean raising atmospheric carbon dioxide to cataclysmic levels.
Many of these fossil-fuel companies are publicly traded and investor-owned, supported in large part by institutional investors like Stanford. Professor James Engell of Harvard writes: “The fossil-fuel companies are decent investments only under two assumptions: first, the oil and gas and coal they own in the ground shall be sold and burned. Second, they shall continue to find more oil and gas and coal and shall sell that to be burned, too. Any investor in them must want this to happen, and any investor is putting up money to make this happen with all deliberate speed.”
We honor the May 2014 decision of the Stanford Board of Trustees to divest from coal, setting a precedent of responsibility and integrity commensurate with the University’s role in the world. Sixty-five percent of all carbon holdings are in coal reserves, and this significant act of divestment is proof of the university’s resolve to act to counter climate disruption. This resolve must now encompass the reality that, once coal is taken out of the equation, the remaining 35% reserves in oil and gas holdings still represent 978 gigatons of carbon, or nearly double the 565 gigaton cap. The urgency and magnitude of climate change call not for partial solutions, however admirable; they demand the more profound and thorough commitment embodied in divestment from all fossil-fuel companies.
The alternative—for Stanford to remain invested in oil and gas companies—presents us with a paradox: If a university seeks to educate extraordinary youth so they may achieve the brightest possible future, what does it mean for that university simultaneously to invest in the destruction of that future? Given that the university has signalled its awareness of the dangers posed by fossil fuels, what are the implications of Stanford’s making only a partial confrontation with this danger? In working with our students we encourage the clarity necessary to confront complex realities and the drive to carry projects through to completion. For Stanford’s investment policies to be congruent with the clarity and drive in its classrooms, the university must divest from all fossil-fuel companies. To this end we respectfully ask President Hennessy and the Board of Trustees to recognize the need for comprehensive divestment from fossil fuels. When it comes to the future our students will live to see, there is a scientifically documented, morally clear, technologically innovative right thing to do: divest from fossil fuels and reinvest in a sustainable future.
Sincerely yours,
1. Elizabeth Tallent
Professor of English and Creative Writing
2. Donald Kennedy
President Emeritus of Stanford University
Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Emeritus
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
3. Roger Kornberg
Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2006
4. Douglas Osheroff
J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Physics, Emeritus
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1996
5. Maryam Mirzakhani
Professor of Mathematics
Fields Medal, 2014
6. David Palumbo-Liu
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, and Professor of Comparative Literature
7. Terry Root
Professor, by courtesy, of Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
8. Debra Satz
Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society
Professor of Philosophy, and, by courtesy, of Political Science
9. Mark Jacobson
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
10. Charles Steele
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Emeritus
11. Tobias Wolff
Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor of English
12. Patricia P. Jones
Dr. Nancy Chang Professor of Biology
Director, Stanford Immunology
13. Trevor Hastie
John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
14. Russ B. Altman
Kenneth Fong Professor
Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
15. Gavin Jones
Professor of English
Chair, Department of English
16. Craig Criddle
Professor of Environmental Engineering & Science
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
17. Kenneth Fields
Professor of English and Creative Writing
18. James O. Leckie
Professor of Environmental Engineering and Applied Earth Sciences
Director of the Stanford Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness
19. Elizabeth A. Hadly
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
20. Gilbert Masters
MAP Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Energy
Professor (Teaching) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Emeritus
21. Stephen Orgel
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Humanities
22. Penelope Eckert
Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics and Professor, by courtesy, of Anthropology
23. George N. Somero
David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Emeritus
Associate Director, Hopkins Marine Station
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
24. Tom Wasow
C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus
25. Sianne Ngai
Professor of English
26. Rosemary Knight
George L. Harrington Professor of Earth Sciences
Professor of Geophysics
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
27. Martin Kay
Professor of Linguistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
28. Clayborne Carson
Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of History
Ronnie Lott Founding Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
29. Andrea Lunsford
Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, Emerita
30. Franco Moretti
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor in the Humanities
31. Peggy Phelan
The Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts
Professor of Drama and of English
32. Paul Ehrlich
Bing Professor of Population Studies
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
33. Blakey Vermeule
Professor of English
34. Rodolfo Dirzo
Bing Professor of Environmental Sciences
Director of Center for Latin American Studies
35. Richard G. Klein
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Biology and of Anthropology
36. John Felstiner
Professor of English, Emeritus
37. Harold Mooney
Paul S. Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Emeritus
Senior Fellow, Emeritus, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
38. Blas Cabrera
Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor of Physics
39. Russell D. Fernald
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology
Mimi & Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Professor of Biology
40. Susan K. McConnell
Susan B. Ford Professor of Biology
Dunlevie Family University Fellow
41. David B. Grusky
Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Director of Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
42. Sean Reardon
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education
Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology
43. Matthew Scott
Howard H. and Jessie T. Watkins University Professor
Professor of Developmental Biology, Genetics, Bioengineering, and, by courtesy, Biology
44. David L. Dill
Professor of Computer Science
Professor, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering
45. Michael P. Predmore
Professor of Modern Peninsular Spanish Literature
Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
46. Fred Turner
Associate Professor of Communication
Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
47. Joan Ramon Resina
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and of Comparative Literature
48. Cecile Alduy
Associate Professor of French and Italian
49. Ron R. Kopito
Professor of Biology
50. Denise Gigante
Professor of English
51. Robert Sapolsky
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor
Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery
52. Robert M. Gray
Alcatel-Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering, Emeritus
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
53. Jorge Ruffinelli
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
54. Reviel Netz
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of the Humanities
Professor of Classics, and, by courtesy, of Philosophy
55. Deborah Gordon
Professor of Biology
56. James Chen
Associate Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, and of Developmental Biology, and, by courtesy, of Chemistry
57. Nick W. McKeown
Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, and Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
58. Dmitri Petrov
Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of Biology
Associate Chair, Department of Biology
59. Thomas Blom Hansen
Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of South Asian Studies
Professor of Anthropology
60. Sylvia Yanagisako
Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies
Chair, Department of Anthropology
61. Pamela M. Lee
Professor of Art and Art History
62. Wanda M. Corn
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History
63. Mark Denny
John B. & Jean DeNault Professor of Marine Science
Department of Biology, Hopkins Marine Station
64. Roland Greene
Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of English and of Comparative Literature
65. Bryan Wolf
Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture, Emeritus
Department of Art and Art History
66. Larry Crowder
Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor of Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
67. Helen E. Longino
C. I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy
Chair, Department of Philosophy
68. Joshua Landy
Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature and Civilization
Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, Professor of English
69. David Epel
Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor of Biological and Marine Sciences, Emeritus
70. Lanier Anderson
Associate Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy, of German Studies
Yumi and Yasunori Kaneko Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
71. John Pencavel
Levin Professor in the Humanities and Sciences
Department of Economics
72. Andrea Nightingale
Professor of Classics
73. Dan Edelstein
Professor of French and, by courtesy, History
W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
74. Eva Silverstein
Professor of Physics
75. Ellen Porzig
Professor (Teaching) of Developmental Biology, Emerita
76. Rush Rehm
Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and of Classics
77. Michele Barry
Senior Associate Dean for Global Health
Professor of Medicine and, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and in the Graduate School of Business
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
78. Ban Wang
William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies
Professor of Comparative Literature
79. Philip Levis
Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
80. Rob Reich
Associate Professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, of Education and of Philosophy
81. Paula Moya
Associate Professor of English
82. Marsh McCall
Professor of Classics, Emeritus
83. Mark Mancall
Professor of History, Emeritus
84. Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Joseph S. Atha Professor in Humanities
Professor of English
85. Barbara Block
Charles & Elizabeth Prothro Professor in Marine Sciences
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Woods Institute for the Environment
86. Mordecai Kurz
Joan Kenney Professor of Economics, Emeritus
87. Marc Bertrand
Professor of French Studies, Emeritus
88. Elaine Treharne
Roberta Bowman Denning Professor in Humanities
Professor of English and, by courtesy, of German
89. Paul Robinson
Richard W. Lyman Professor in Humanities
Professor of History, Emeritus
90. Giulio De Leo
Professor of Biology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
91. Rafe Mazzeo
Professor of Mathematics
92. Joel Beinin
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History
Professor of Middle East History
93. Albert Camarillo
Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service
Leon Sloss Jr. Memorial Professor of American History
Professor, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Education
94. Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Professor of French and, by courtesy, Political Science
95. Victor R. Fuchs
Henry J. Kaiser Professor, Emeritus
Department of Economics and of Health Research and Policy
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
96. Kenji Hakuta
Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education
Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
97. Ian Morris
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics
98. Theodore L. Glasser
Professor of Communication
99. James Holland Jones
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
100. Albert Gelpi
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature, Emeritus
Department of English
101. Theodore Geballe
Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor of Applied Physics
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Emeritus
102. Thomas Sheehan
Professor of Religious Studies and, by courtesy, of German Studies and of Philosophy
103. Vincent Barletta
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
104. Risa H. Wechsler
Associate Professor of Physics
105. Monika Greenleaf
Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
106. Giorgio Gratta
Professor of Physics
Associate Chair, Department of Physics
107. Nancy Ruttenberg
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Literature
108. Robert Finn
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
109. Zephyr Frank
Associate Professor of History
110. Richard P. Martin
Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics
111. Jun Uchida
Associate Professor of History
112. Estelle B. Freedman
Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History
113. Shahzad Bashir
Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies
Department of Religious Studies
114. Rega Wood
Professor of Philosophy, Emerita
115. Charlotte Fonrobert
Associate Professor and Graduate Director of Religious Studies
116. Robert Gregg
Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
117. Van A. Harvey
Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
118. Allen Wood
Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor, Emeritus
Department of Philosophy
119. Matthew Smith
Associate Professor of German Studies and of Theater and Performance Studies
120. Thomas S. Grey
Professor of Music
121. Armin Dale Kaiser
Professor of Biochemistry
122. Jody Maxmin
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and of Classics
123. Michele Dauber
Professor of Law and, by courtesy, of Sociology
Bernard D. Bergreen Faculty Scholar
124. Joshua Cohen
Martha Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law
15. Jeremy Bailenson
Associate Professor of Communication
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
126. Alexandria Boehm
Clare Booth Luce Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
127. Fiorenza Micheli
Professor of Biology and Marine Sciences
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
128. Christopher Gardner
Professor (Research) of Medicine
129. Patricia Parker
Margery Bailey Professor in English and Dramatic Literature
Professor of Comparative Literature
130. Steven J. Zipperstein
Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History
131. Peter Stansky
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus
132. Jonathan Berger
The Denning Family Provostial Professor in Music
133. Christine Min Wotipka
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology
134. Ellen Jo Baron
Professor of Pathology, Emerita
135. David Hannah
Paul L. and Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art, Emeritus
136. James Ferguson
Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor
Department of Anthropology
137. Robert N. Proctor
Professor of the History of Science and, by courtesy, of Pulmonary Medicine
138. Lynn Hildemann
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
139. Gail Wight
Associate Professor of Art Practice
140. Claude Goldenberg
Professor of Education
Chair, Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education
141. Anne Fernald
Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor of Human Biology
142. William H. Durham
Bing Professor in Human Biology and Professor of Anthropology
Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
143. Robert McGinn
Professor (Teaching) of Management Science and Engineering and of Science, Technology, and Society
144. Terry Berlier
Associate Professor of Art
145. John R. Pringle
Professor of Genetics
Associate Chair, Department of Genetics
146. John Rick
Associate Professor of Anthropology
147. Martin Reinhard
Professor (Research) Emeritus of
Civil and Environmental Engineering
148. Jennifer DeVere Brody
Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
14. David R. Riggs
Mark Piggott KBE Professor, Emeritus
Professor of English, Emeritus
150. Gary Ernst
Benjamin M. Page Professor of Earth Sciences, Emeritus
151. Lochlann Jain
Associate Professor of Anthropology
152. James J. Gross
Professor of Psychology
153. Bernard Roth
Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering
154. Eve V. Clark
Richard W. Lyman Professor
Professor of Linguistics
155. Hongjie Dai
J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry
156. Brent Sockness
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
157. Hester Gelber
Professor of Religious Studies
158. Kent Irwin
Professor of Physics, Particle Physics & Astrophysics, and Photon Science
159. Mark Crimmins
Associate Professor of Philosophy
160. Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Professor of Linguistics and English, Emerita
161. Ian Hodder
Dunlevie Family Professor
Professor of Anthropology
162. Philip Zimbardo
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
163. Robert Crews
Associate Professor of History
164. Chris Chafe
Duca Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences
165. Steven M. Kahn
Cassius Lamb Kirk Professor in the Natural Sciences
Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
166. Alex Woloch
Associate Professor of English
167. Nancy Packer
Professor of English, Emerita
168. Prudence L. Carter
Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Sociology
169. Robb Willer
Associate Professor of Sociology
170. Larry Cuban
Professor of Education, Emeritus
171. Barbara Voss
Associate Professor of Anthropology
172. C. Matthew Snipp
Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences
Chair, Native American Studies
173. Vahe Petrosian
Professor of Applied Physics
174. David Brazer
Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Graduate School of Education
175. Philip H. Scherrer
Professor (Research) of Physics
176. Matthew Kohrman
Associate Professor of Anthropology
177. Nancy Brandon Tuma
Professor of Sociology, Emerita
178. Lisa Curran
Roger and Cynthia Lan Professor in Environmental Anthropology
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
179. Jean-Claude Latombe
Kumagai Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus
180. Terry Winograd
Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus
181. James Ferrell
Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Biochemistry
182. Suzanne Pfeffer
Emma Pfeiffer Merner Professor of Medical Sciences
Chair, Department of Biochemistry
183. Julie Theriot
Professor of Biochemistry and of Microbiology & Immunology
184. Mehran Sahami
Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science
185. J. Myron Atkin
Professor of Education, Emeritus
Former Dean, Graduate School of Education
186. Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education
187. Dan Herschlag
Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Affairs, School of Medicine
Professor of Biochemistry and, by Courtesy, of Chemistry and of Chemical Engineering
188. Balaji Prabhakar
Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Computer Science
189. Hans Weiler
Professor of Education and Political Science, Emeritus
190. Tomás Jiménez
Associate Professor of Sociology
191. Ray McDermott
Professor in the Graduate School of Education and, by courtesy, of Anthropology
192. Gregory Freidin
Professor of Slavic Langugaes and Literature
193. John Willinsky
Kholsa Family Professor of Education
194. Henry M. Levin
David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus.
195. Godfrey Mungal
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus.
196. Sandra E. Drake
Associate Professor of English, Emerita
197. Leon Simon
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
198. Shirley Heath
Professor of English, Emeritus
199 Cecilia Ridgeway
Lucie Stern Professor of Sociology
200. Solomon Feferman
Patrick Suppes Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Emeritus
Professor of Mathematics and of Philosophy, Emeritus
201. Carl E. Thoresen
Professor of Education, Emeritus and, by courtesy, of Psychology and Psychiatry
202 Per Enge
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
203. W. Richard Scott
Professor of Sociology, Emeritus
204. Eric Roberts
Professor of Computer Science
205. Haiyan Lee
Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature
206. Wilfred Stone
Professor of English, Emeritus
207. James Fearon
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
208. Marjorie Perloff
Professor of English, Emeritus
209. Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology
210. Simon Jackman
Professor of Political Science
211. Barbara Gelpi
Professor of English, Emeritus
212. Ari Kelman
Jim Joseph Chair in Education and Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of Religious Studies
213. Laura Wittman
Associate Professor of Italian and French Literature
214. Matthew H. Sommer 蘇成捷
Associate Professor of Chinese History
215. David Como
Associate Professor of History
216. Paul Seaver
Professor of History, Emeritus
217. Thomas Mullaney
Associate Professor of History
218. Caroline Winterer
Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities
Professor of History and, by courtesy, of Classics
219. Harold Kahn
Professor of History, Emeritus
220. Leonard Ortolano
UPS Foundation Professor of Civil Engineering in Urban and Regional Planning
221. Ralph L. Cohen
Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Mathematics
Senior Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences
222. Mark McGurl
Professor of English
223. Zhi-Xun Shen
Paul Pigott Professor of Physics
224. Jamie Meltzer
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
225. Giovanna Ceserani
Associate Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of History
226. Grant Parker
Associate Professor of Classics
227. Jessica Riskin
Associate Professor of History
228. Krista Lawlor
Associate Professor of Philosophy
229. Nancy J. Troy
Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art
Chair, Department of Art and Art History
230. David Hills
Associate Professor (Teaching) of Philosophy
231. John J. Donohue III
C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law
232. Jean Ma
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
233. Paul Harrison
George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies
234. John Perry
Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus
235. Robert W. Gordon
Professor of Law
236. Daniel Fisher
David Starr Jordan Professor
Professor of Applied Physics and, by courtesy, of Biology and Bioengineering
237. Carl Bielefeldt
Evans-Wentz Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus
238. Susan Stephens
Sara Hart Kimball Professor in the Humanities
Professor of Classics
239. Janet Cooper Alexander
Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Emerita
240. Sandy Napel
Professor of Radiology (General Radiology) and, by courtesy, of Medicine (Medical Informatics) Research and of Electrical Engineering
241. Lisa Surwillo
Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
242. Kristine Samuelson
Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies, Emerita
243 Richard T. Ford
George E. Osborne Professor of Law
244. The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw,
Dean for Religious Life
Professor of Religious Studies
245. Herbert Lindenberger
Avalon Professor of Humanities, Emeritus
246. Brian Kobilka
Helene Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and, by courtesy, of Chemical and Systems Biology
247. Mark Musen
Professor of Medicine and Medical Informatics
248. Duana Fullwiley
Associate Professor of Anthropology
249. Teresa Meng
Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Computer Science, Emerita
250. Walter Powell
Professor in the Graduate School of Education and (by courtesy) in the Graduate School of Business, of Sociology, of Management Science and Engineering, and of Communication
251. Indra Levy
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature
252. Aron Rodrigue
Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture
253. James Landay
Professor of Computer Science
254. Jan Krawitz
Professor of Art and Art History and, by courtesy, Communication
255. Stephen Barley
Richard W. Weiland Professor of Management Science and Engineering
Associate Chair, Department of Management Science and Engineering
256. R. James Milgram
Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
257. Peter Paret
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Emeritus
256. Laura Stokes
Associate Professor of History
259. Raymond Levitt
Kumagai Professor in the School of Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
260. Michele Elam
Olivier Nomellini Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education
Professor of English
261. Sharon A. Hunt
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
262. Stephen Boyd
Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Management Science and Engineering and of Computer Science
263. Andrea Montanari
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Statistics
264. Melinda Takeuchi
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
265. Barbara Babcock
Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita
266. Harumi Befu
Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus
267. Brian White
Robert Grimmett Professor of Mathematics
Chair, Department of Mathematics
268. J. P. Daughton
Associate Professor of Modern European History and, by courtesy, French and Italian
269. Michael Bratman
U.G. and Abbie Birch Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and
Professor of Philosophy
270. Shelley Goldman
Professor (Teaching), Graduate School of Education
and, by courtesy, Mechanical Engineering
271. Guadalupe Valdés
Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education
272. Bernadette Meyler
Professor of Law
Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar
273. Jennifer Trimble
Associate Professor of Classics
274. Richard J. Shavelson
Margaret Jacks Professor of the Graduate Education, Emeritus
I. James Quillen Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Emeritus
and, by courtesy, Professor of Psychology
275. Nicholas Jenkins
Associate Professor of English
276. Peter S. Kim
Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor of Biochemistry
277. Martin Hellman
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
278. James S. Harris
James & Ellenor Chesebrough Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics and, by courtesy, of Materials Science and Engineering
279. Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
280. Tsachy Weissman
Professor of Electrical Engineering
281 . Leonard Horowitz
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
282. Deborah R. Hensler
Judge John W. Ford Professor of Dispute Resolution
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies
283. Ross Schachter
Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering
284. Jeffrey Wine
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology
Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and (by courtesy) Pediatrics
285. Alison Morantz
Professor of Law
John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar
286. Michelle Mello
Professor of Law and of Health Research and Policy in the School of Medicine
287. Ronald Tyler
Associate Professor of Law
288. Linda Shortliffe
Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine
289. Terry Karl
Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies
William and Gretchen Kimball University Fellow
Professor of Political Science
290. Paulla Ebron
Associate Professor Anthropology
291. Kenneth Schultz
Professor of Political Science
292. Robert J. Moffat
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus
293. Myra Strober
Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Emeritus, and, by courtesy, Graduate School of Business
294. Darrell Duffie
The Dean Witter Distinguished Professorship of Finance
Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
295. Martin Fischer
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
296. George Brown
Professor of English, Emeritus
297. Kathryn Starkey
Professor of German Studies and, by courtesy, of English
298. Joe Nation
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
299. Liisa Malkki
Associate Professor of Anthropology
300. Thomas Robinson
Irving Schulman, MD Endowed Professor in Child Health
Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
301. Hari Manoharan
Associate Professor of Physics
302. Julie Kennedy
Professor (Teaching) of Environmental Earth System Science
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
303. Gretchen Daily
Bing Professor in Environmental Science
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
304. Scott Fendorf
Terry Huffington Professor of Earth Sciences
Professor of Environmental Earth Systems Science
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, Woods Institute for the Environment
305. Rosamond Naylor
William Wrigley Professor of Environmental Earth System Science
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
306. Jonathan Berek
Laurie Kraus Lacob Professor
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
307. Todd Davies
Associate Director and Lecturer, Symbolic Systems Program
308. Mikael Wolfe
Assistant Professor of Latin American and Environmental History
309. Lawrence Litvak
Lecturer, Program on Urban Studies
310. Richard Nevle
Deputy Director of the Earth Systems Program
Lecturer, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
311. David Golden
Consulting Professor of Mechanical Engineering
312. Linda Hess
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies
313. Anshul Kundaje
Assistant Professor of Genetics and of Computer Science
314. Simone D’Amico
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
315. Fabio Barry
Assistant Professor of Art History
316. Erin Mordecai
Assistant Professor of Biology
317. Prashant Loyalka
Affiliated Faculty in the Graduate School of Education
Center Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
318. Sharika Thiranagama
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
319. Ali Yaycioglu
Assistant Professor of History
320. KC Huang
Associate Professor of Bioengineering and of Microbiology & Immunology
321. Allyson Hobbs
Assistant Professor of History
322. Lester Mackey
Assistant Professor of Statistics and, by courtesy, of Computer Science
323. Georg Menz
Szegö Assistant Professor of Mathematics
324. Jack Poulson
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
325. Aishwary Kumar
Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian and Global Intellectual History
326. Hilton Obenzinger
Lecturer and Associate Director, Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project
327. Anne Ehrlich
Senior Research Scientist Emerita, Department of Biology
Policy Coordinator for the Stanford Center for Conservation Biology
328. Tadashi Fukami
Assistant Professor of Biology
329. Mark Schnitzer
Associate Professor of Biology and of Applied Physics
330. Ro Khanna
Lecturer in the Department of Economics
331. Kabir Peay
Assistant Professor of Biology
332. Terry Berlier
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
333. Marton Dornbach
Assistant Professor of German Studies
334. Liqun Luo
Professor of Biology
335. Antonio Vives
Consulting Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
336. Philip C. Hanawalt
Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology
337. Ami Bhatt
Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Genetics
338. Maren Aukerman
Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education
339. Greg Wrenn
Lecturer in the Department of English
340. Christopher Lowe
Associate Professor of Biology
341. Steven Block
Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of the Sciences
Professor of Applied Physics and of Biology
342. Andrew Todhunter
Lecturer in the Department of Biology and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
343. Michelle Karnes
Assistant Professor of English
344. Solmaz Sharif
Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
345. Patrick Archie
Lecturer in Earth Systems and Environmental Earth Systems Science
Director of the O'Donohue Family Educational Farm, Stanford University
346. Petra Dierkes-Thrun
Lecturer in Comparative Literature
347. Kai Carlson-Wee
Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
348. Karin Forssell
Director of the Learning, Design & Technology Master's Program
Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education
349. Erik Kolderup
Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering
350. Keith Ekiss
Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
351. Manu Prakash
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Affiliate Woods Institute of the Environment
352. Harriet Clark
Lecturer in Creative Writing Program, Department of English
353. Shannon Pufahl
Lecturer in the Department of English
354. Brittany Perham,
Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
355. Daniel Jarosz
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology and of Developmental Biology
356. Austin Smith
Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
357. Maria Hummel
Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
358. Amir Safavi-Naeini
Assistant Professor of Applied Physics
359. Charles Kronengold
Assistant Professor of Music
360. Thomas Icard
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and of Symbolic Systems
361. Justin Sonnenburg
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
362. Theodora Gibbs
Lecturer, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences
363. Daniel Barreto
Lecturer, Management Science and Engineering
364. Katherine Preston
Associate Director of the Program in Human Biology
365. Joanna Dearlove
Assistant Professor (Clinical) of Neurology and of Neurological Sciences
366. Alison McQueen
Assistant Professor of Political Science
367. Sunil Puria
Associate Professor (Consulting) of Mechanical Engineering
368. Sharad Goel
Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering
369. Anna Schultz
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology
370. Philip Pizzo
David and Susan Heckerman Professor of Pediatrics and of Microbiology and Immunology
Founding Director, Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute
371. NoViolet Bulawayo
Lecturer, Creative Writing Program
372. Arend Sidow
Associate Professor of Pathology and of Genetics
373. Nina Schloesser
Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
374. Sarah Frisch
Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, Department of English
375. Philip Lavori
Professor of Health Research and Policy, of Biostatistics, and, by courtesy, of Statistics
376. Sarah Truebe
Director of Community Engaged Learning in Environmental Sustainability
Lecturer in Earth Systems
377. Kevin Hsu
Lecturer in Urban Studies
378. Daniel Lassiter
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
379. Michelle Wilde Anderson
Professor of Law
Robert E. Paradise Faculty Fellow For Excellence in Teaching and Research
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