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When the Loom Stops: How Industrial Collapse Could Reshape Worker Identity

An Intervention by Alberta Christina Pertiwi, Rifqi Febrian, and Siti Hilya Nabila
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Reflections on Archiving: A Conversation with Morgan Tufan and Kioumars Ghereghlou

An Interventions Interview
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Jon Cooper

"Dealing with Money": An Interview with SHC Fellow Jon Cooper

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Honorary Fellows

Stanford Humanities Center Announces 2025–26 Fellows

Next Year's Cohort Will Include Nearly 50 Scholars, from Undergraduate Students to Senior Faculty
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Reflections on Santiago Zabala’s Exhibition "The Greatest Emergency"

An Intervention by Thomas Winn
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The Hopeful Ambition of Kenyan Runners

An Essay by SHC Fellow '25 Chepchirchir Tirop from the Hope: The Future of an Idea Colloquy
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Stanford Humanities Review
Stanford Humanities Review: An Annual Journal of Research and Reflection
by contributors to Arcade
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Digital Humanities Quarterly Special Issue: The Politics and Ethics of Naming the Names of Enslaved People in Digital Humanities Projects
by Richard Roberts, Rebecca Wall, and Fatoumata Seck (all former SHC Fellows)
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The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020
by Alice Staveley (SHC Fellow '21)
Joanne Liu
L' Ebola, les bombes et les migrants
by Joanne Liu (Bliss Carnochan International Visitor, '20)
A World Made by Travel
A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour
by Giovanna Ceserani, Director, CESTA
Research Project
Rima Greenhill
Shakespeare, Elizabeth and Ivan: The Role of English-Russian Relations in "Love’s Labours Lost"
by Rima Greenhill (SHC Fellow '20)
Empire of Refugees
Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
by Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (SHC Fellow '24)
Countering Disposession
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography
by David Gilbert (SHC Fellow '18)
Before the Movement
Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
by Dylan Penningroth (SHC Fellow '14)
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