Graduate Representatives
History's 2015-16 Graduate Student Representatives are:
Daniella Farah
Email: dfarah2@stanford.edu
Daniella Farah is a Ph.D. candidate studying the religious and cultural histories of Jewish populations of Iran, Turkey, and Central Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her research seeks to ascertain how Jews' identities were affected by their minority status, and the significance of religious identity in forming national subjects. She is also interested in memory’s impact upon Middle Eastern and Central Asian Jewish diasporic narratives.
Rachel Midura
Email: rmidura@stanford.edu
I am a third year history PhD student and fellow at the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis at Stanford University. I approach the seventeenth century as an information age created by the printing press and the European postal network. In my research, I revisit traditional social, cultural and material historical approaches in order to incorporate twenty-first century understanding of media and social networks. I read across the vast printed ephemera digitization projects of recent years to synthesize new historical models for communication. I am dedicated to increasing the accessibility of historical knowledge through digital curation and annotation, as shown by my work with related collaborations, such as The Galileo Correspondence and Grand Tour Projects.
