Faculty & Lecturers
Academic Council Faculty
Topics of Interest: state and local government, including urban policy, city planning, local democracy, and public finance; local governance of high poverty areas, both urban and rural; and the legal causes of concentrated poverty and fiscal crisis.
Topics of Interest: Social Stratification; Migration and Immigrant Incorporation; Race and Ethnicity; Health
Topics of Interest: Inner-city Youth; International Comparative Education; Language; Linguistics/Linguistic Human Rights; Literacy; Literacy and Culture; Curriculum and Instruction; Multicultural Education; Diversity; Teacher Education and Certification; Urban Education
Topics of Interest: Access and Equity; Applied Econometrics; Applied Statistics in Educational Research; Design Experiments; Economics of Education; Education Policy; Evaluation; Higher Education; Research Methods; State and Federal Education Policy.
Sarah Billington
Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Woods Institute for the Environment
Topics of Interest: Impact of building design, materials, and symbols on human wellbeing; Building management systems and impact of built features on community wellbeing; Performance-based durability engineering
Topics of Interest: Diversity and Identity; Science Education and Access in Urban Communities; Teachers and Teaching
Topics of Interest: Critical Theory and Popular Media; Embodied / Perceptual Experience in Contemporary Culture; Bodily Utopia; Hyperbole in General.
Topics of Interest: Probabilistic Modeling; Integration of Operations Research Models in Economic Analysis.
Topics of Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Culture; Criminal Justice; Courts
Topics of Interest: Urban Economics; Inequality
Topics of Interest: Culture as a Commodity; Memory and History; Feminism / Difference / Performance.
Topics of Interest: Early History of Science and Medicine; Renaissance Italy; Relations among Gender Culture and Knowledge.
Topics of Interest: American Studies; Effects of Journalism on American Writers’ Poetry and Fiction; African American Voices on Canonical American literature; Desegregation of American Literary Studies; Feminist Criticism; Public history and Literary History.
Topics of Interest: Judaism: Talmudic Literature and Culture; Gender in Jewish Culture; Judaism & Christianity in Late Antiquity; Discourses of Orthodoxy vs. Heresy; Rabbinic Conceptions of Judaism w/respect to Greco-Roman Culture.
Topics of Interest: Civil Rights and Anti-Discrimination Law; Political and Legal Boundaries as Instruments of Social Regulation and Cultural Phenomena; Race and Multiculturalism.
Topics of Interest: Social History of Brazil; Latin American Economic History; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Topics of Interest: Medical and psychological anthropology; violence, suffering and care; addiction, morality and science; subjectivity; ethnographic writing; Unites States, Mexico.
Sharad Goel
Management Science and Engineering, Sociology (by courtesy), and Computer Science (by courtesy)
Phone: (607) 339-9903
scgoel@stanford.edu
Topics of Interest: Computational social science
Topics of Interest: Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race Class and Gender.
Topics of Interest: South Asia and Southern Africa; Cities; Political Theory and Continental Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Comparative Religion; Contemporary Urbanism
Gabrielle Hecht
Department of History
Topics of Interest: African history and anthropology, science and technology studies, nuclear studies, and French history
Topics of Interest: African American social and cultural history; African American women's history; Twentieth century American history
Topics of Interest: Archaeological Theory; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Europe and the Middle East; Excavations in Turkey; Material Culture.
Topics of Interest: Urban Sociology; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; and Immigration
Topics of Interest: Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropology of Japan.
Topics of Interest: Socio-spatial dynamics of commercial building energy usage; data-driven benchmarking; sustainability planning of urban buildings; characterizing the coupled dynamics of urban systems using data science and micro-experimentation.
Tomás Jiménez
Director, Program on Urban Studies, Professor of Sociology
Topics of Interest: Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Assimilation; Mexican Americans.
Topics of Interest: Built Environment
Michael Lepech
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Topics of Interest: Integration of sustainability indicators into engineering design
Topics of Interest: The mind; Mental experience; Homelessness; psychosis.
Topics of Interest: Anthropology and Education Bilingual Education / ESL Cultural Studies Curriculum and Instruction Ethnography Identity Language Language Acquisition Latino Concerns in Education Literacy Literacy and Culture Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RIL
Topics of Interest: Urban agriculture; sustainability of agricultural systems; vulnerability of particular people and places to climate change; environmental consequences of tropical land use change
Topics of Interest: Collective Action/Social Movements; Comparative and Historical Sociology; Political Sociology; Qualitative Methods; Race and Ethnicity
Topics of Interest: Human Communication; Organization of School Success and Failure; Various Literacies around the World.
Topics of Interest: Organizational Characteristics Schools and Classrooms; Social Networks; Micro-Sociology; Social Dynamics.
Topics of Interest: The Interface of Religion Ethics and the Professions.
Topics of Interest: religion and secularity, gender and nationalism, cosmopolitanism and globalization. She has published essays on the Indian partition, diasporic feminist theatre, political violence in South Asia, transnational queer theory, and neoliberal urbanism.
Topics of Interest: Ancient Greece; Cultural and Economic History; Excavation Monte Polizzo.
Topics of Interest: Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Politics of Knowledge and Innovation; Relationship between Democracy and Inherent Human Capacities.
Topics of Interest: Water Resources; Environmental Planning; Implementation of Environmental Policies.
Topics of Interest: The Environmental Complexity Lab studies self-organization in a variety of complex systems, ranging from turbulent fluid flows to granular materials to collective motion in animal groups.
Topics of Interest: Latin; Roman imperial culture; ancient travel literature; classical reception
Peggy Phelan
Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts, Professor of English
Topics of Interest: American and British Literature, Poetry, Drama/Theater, Performance
Topics of Interest: Civil Society; Role of Non-Profit Organizations in Urban Life; Higher Education; Leadership and Organization
Topics of Interest: African American, Multinational Literatures, Comparative Literature, Transnational Studies, Postcolonial/Third World, African and Postcolonial Literature, Comparative race Studies, Cultural Race Studies, Cultural Studies
Topics of Interest: Causes Patterns and Consequences of Residential and School Segregation; Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Disparities; Neighborhood Influences of Child Development.
Topics of Interest: Contemporary Liberal Theory; Intersection of Political Theory and Educational Theory
Jonathan Rodden
Political Science
Topics of Interest: Comparative political economy of institutions; political geography and electoral districts.
Jonathan Rosa
Education, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Linguistics
Topics of Interest: Race and racialization; youth socialization; education; semiotics; language ideologies; multilingual and multimodal communication; (im)migration; diaspora; Latina/o identity; U.S. and Latin America
Michael Rosenfeld
Sociology
Topics of Interest: Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.
Topics of Interest: Ancient Social and Economic History; Pre-Modern Historical Demography; Comparative and Interdisciplinary World History.
Topics of Interest: Deisgn history and research; archaeological theory; heritage studies and archaeologies of the contemporary past; the archaeology of Greco-Roman urbanism; the regional archaeology of the English-Scottish borders.
Topics of Interest: Urban Sociology; Crime and Policing; Culture; Digital Media; Ethnography
Topics of Interest: Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Dynamics of Urban Space.
Topics of Interest: Digital media journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history.
Topics of Interest: Bilingual Education / ESL; Educational Equity; Family Issues; Foreign Language Instruction; Hispanic Issues in Education; Immigrant Issues; Language Acquisition; Language Policy; Minorities.
Topics of Interest: Intersections of Archaeology Anthropology Feminist studies and Critical Race Studies; History of Human Sexuality.
Topics of Interest: Early Modern Europe; Middle East and Central Asia; Transnational, International, and Global History
Topics of Interest: Modern Jewish History; History of Zionism; Russian and East European Jewish History; Biography.
Lecturer
Topics of Interest: Equitable and sustainable communities; land use and transportation planning; participatory planning, human-centered design
Topics of Interest: Political representation, the debate about responses to climate change, and the politics of urban space and planning.
Melanie Edwards
Urban Studies
Topics of Interest: Social Entrepreneurship; Community Based Digital Data Collection; International Management Development and Consulting.
Topics of Interest: Architecture; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Transit as a Fundamental Means of Transportation.
Michael Kahan
Co-Director, Program on Urban Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology
Topics of Interest: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Urban and Social History; Street Life; Urban Space
Topics of Interest: Jewish Feminism; Rabbinical Ethics; The Relationship between Religion and Education; Social Justice; Student Mental Health and Well-being.
Topics of Interest: Jennifer LeSar is an expert in community development and real estate finance. She is actively engaged in ensuring quality delivery of services and products to the clients of Estolano LeSar Advisors, as well as the ongoing management of its affiliate, LeSa
Topics of Interest: Starting and Managing Hybrid Enterprises; Socially Innovative Non-Profits and Businesses.
Topics of Interest: Community history; Public history; Oral history; Military communities; Race; Gender.
Topics of Interest: Social Entrepreneurship.
Topics of Interest: Urban Planning; Community; City in Literature and Film.
Topics of Interest: Community-Based Research; Participatory Action Research; Critical Pedagogy; Social Justice Education; and Community Organizing
Topics of Interest: Urban Economics; Land Use Law; Environmental Law; Urban Planning
Other Affiliate
Topics of Interest: Architecture; Built Environment; Local Government
Topics of Interest: Architectural History and Theory; Art.
Topics of Interest: The innovative potential of new technologies for teaching and research with a focus on mobile technologies; spatial analysis; and GIS.
Preeti Hehmeyer
Associate Director of The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Lecturer in Public Policy
Phone: (650) 723-1577
preetih@stanford.edu
Topics of Interest: Advanced policy analysis, design of public institutions, urban and regional policy
Topics of Interest: International History; Global Spatial Relations.
Topics of Interest: Urban ethnography, sociology of science and technology, environmental sociology, family studies, race/class/gender/sexuality, and social theory
