Research Workshop Co-Chairs

Each year the Humanities Center supports approximately 15 graduate students who coordinate Research Workshops. These Workshop Co-Chairs bring together faculty and graduate students to share works in progress and explore new areas of inquiry. Numerous Stanford faculty and hundreds of graduate students each year benefit from this program. 
 

2026–27 Workshops and Co-Chairs
 

Claire and John Radway Research Workshop

American Studies from the Inside Out
Claire and John Radway Research Workshop
Faculty Co-Chairs: Richard Meyer (Art and Art History) and Judith Richardson (English)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Dejan Vasic (Art and Art History) and Lydia Burleson (English)
 

Critical Carceral Studies Collective
Faculty Co-Chairs: Matthew Clair (Sociology) and Emily Shaw Crane (Anthropology)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Sav Evans (Modern Thought and Literature) and Awa Diagne (Anthropology)
 

Global Humanities Research Workshop

Environmental Humanities Project
Faculty Co-Chairs: Gavin Jones (English), Ximena Briceño (Iberian and Latin American Cultures), and  Regina Pieck (Comparative Literature) 
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Müge Gedik (Comparative Literature), Qaima Hossain (Comparative Literature), and Gary Huertas (Iberian and Latin American Cultures)
 

Eurasian Empires
Faculty Co-Chairs: Nora Barakat and Partha Pratim Shil (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Karventha Kuppusamy and Anwar Haneef (History) 
 

Research Workshop in Honor of John Bender

Fiber Optics: Plant Fiber Materials and Media
Faculty Co-Chairs: Hideo Mabuchi (Applied Physics) and Paula Findlen (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Michelle Ha (Modern Thought and Literature) and Kelly Fu (History)

Marta Sutton Weeks Research Workshop

Global Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Faculty Co-Chair: Ana Minian (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Eva Marie Baudler and Gabriel Panuco-Mercado (History)
 

Blokker Research Workshop

History of Capitalism
Faculty Co-Chairs: Mark Granovetter (Sociology) and Gavin Wright (Economics)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Christian Robles-Baez and Linxi Cai (History)
 

Medical Humanities
Faculty Co-Chairs: Tanya Luhrmann (Anthropology) and Laura Wittman (French and Italian)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Kelsey Clough (Anthropology) and Luo Jia (Comparative Literature)
 

Blokker Research Workshop

Property, Territory, and Sovereignty on Indigenous Lands
Faculty Co-Chair: Thomas Hansen (Anthropology)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Marie Odgaard Smidstrup and Madeline Augusta Turner (Anthropology)
 

SCRIPTA: Studies in Coded Reading, Identity, Performance, Text, and Agency (800–1700)
Faculty Co-Chairs: Kathryn Starkey (German Studies) and Fiona Griffiths (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Vera Geranpayeh (German Studies) 
 

Slavery and Freedom
Faculty Co-Chairs: Kathryn Olivarius (History); Zephyr Frank (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Bailey Martin (History) and Ayesha Pasha (JD/PhD Law and History
 

“The Other Europe”
Faculty Co-Chair: Jana Hunter (History) 
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Ali Karakaya (Slavic Languages and Literatures) 
 

Blokker Research Workshop

What is Attention Today?
Faculty Co-Chair: Antonia Peacocke (Philosophy)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Ali Hazel (Philosophy) 
 

Blokker Research Workshop

What is the Islamic Archive?
Faculty Co-Chairs: Anna Bigelow (Religious Studies) and Patricia Blessing (Art and Art History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Leena Zahweh Ghannam (Art and Art History) and Samran Ahmad (Religious Studies)
 

Linda Randall Meier Research Workshop

Writing the Life Process
Faculty Co-Chairs: Sharika Thiranagama (Anthropology) and Denise Gill (Music)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Matthew Gilbert (Music)