Projects
The decline of Native American political autonomy in the second half of the nineteenth century was one of the results of increasing national authority that also irrevocably changed the character of the American West. With its powers invigorated by the demands of war, the federal government, having...
A conflict of many firsts, the American Civil War (1861 – 1865) was one of the earliest truly industrial wars. The Civil War, however, was also the first war of “industrialized animal power,” the greatest single event demanding the massive mobilization of animals and their ability to perform work...
Her current project,"No Soul": Hans Asperger, Death, and the Origins of Autism in the Third Reich, also examines the global consequences of everyday actions. This work investigates Hans Asperger’s creation of the autism diagnosis in Vienna from 1938 through the Second World War and...
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the...
The History Graduate Students' Community Memory Project, or Hist-Grad Archive, is dedicated to preserving the collective wisdom and experience of the department's graduate students for the benefit of their peers and successors. Access is restricted to current and recently graduated Stanford History...
My current book project examines the diasporic history of Ōmi shōnin (merchant). Often compared to overseas Chinese and Jewish merchants before 1945, merchants of Ōmi (present-day Shiga prefecture) are famous for peddling textiles and other goods across the early modern Japanese...
This classical Chinese course is free and open to all, and can be studied at one's own pace. It is intended for people who would like to learn how to read classical Chinese philosophy and history as expeditiously as possible. The professor, Mark Edward Lewis, is a specialist in early Chinese...
Dan Edelstein
Before email, faculty meetings, international colloquia, and professional associations, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks: networks of correspondence that stretched across countries and continents; the social networks created by scientific academies; and the physical networks...
Elijah Meeks
Spanning one-ninth of the earth's circumference across three continents, the Roman Empire ruled a quarter of humanity through complex networks of political power, military domination and economic exchange. These extensive connections were sustained by premodern transportation and communication...
The Spatial History Project at Stanford University is a place for a collaborative community of students, staff, and scholars to engage in creative spatial, textual and visual analysis to further research in the humanities. We are part of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) along...
Kathryn Ciancia
“Creating Lives: Fictional Characters in the History Classroom,” with Kathryn Ciancia, Perspectives on History,...
ed. with Ineke Klinge
2013: Gendered Innovations: How Gender Analysis Contributes to Research (Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union). Edited by Londa Schiebinger and Ineke Klinge.
Report of the Expert...
Report of the Expert...
Gendered Innovations harness the creative power of sex and gender analysis to discover new things.
The peer-reviewed Gendered Innovations project:
1) develops practical methods of sex and gender analysis for scientists and engineers;
2) provides case studies as concrete...
The peer-reviewed Gendered Innovations project:
1) develops practical methods of sex and gender analysis for scientists and engineers;
2) provides case studies as concrete...
Fifty years ago, on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall went up overnight. It immediately became a chilling icon of political repression. Yet on its semicentennial it is time we recognize how the wall's strength came as much from concrete as from the society that supported its creation. As fortified...
“Thus in the beginning all the World was America,” wrote the English philosopher John Locke at the end of the seventeenth century. Like many European Enlightenment theorists, Locke had never been to the New World, but this small detail did not stop him from grounding some of his revolutionary ideas...
Founded in 2010, Dissertation Reviews features overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations in a wide variety of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our goal is to offer readers a glimpse of each discipline’s immediate present by focusing on the window of...
“Creating Lives in the Classroom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education. November 22, 2009
At the beginning of my course on German history at Stanford University last fall, each student drew an identity at...
At the beginning of my course on German history at Stanford University last fall, each student drew an identity at...
「在朝日本人の研究動向と展望」『海峡』(2004.1)（植民地期朝鮮社会と在朝日本人に関する研究情報サイト）
“Coherence with Conceptual Maps,” Teaching & Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley, March 2003.
Learning combines three levels of engagement: absorbing details, understanding significances, and...
Learning combines three levels of engagement: absorbing details, understanding significances, and...
