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. 
 

2024–25 Workshops and Co-Chairs

Asian Diasporic Art and Aesthetics
Faculty Co-Chair: Marci Kwon (Art and Art History)
Graduate Student Co-Chair(s): Kelsey Chen (Modern Thought and Literature)

Black and Otherwise Geographies
Faculty Co-Chair: Pedro Regalado (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Alexandros Orphanides; Darion Wallace (Education)

Colonialism, Post- and Anti-, in the Digital Age
Faculty Co-Chair: Adam Banks (Education)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Carmen Thong & Kay Barret (English)

Critical Carceral Studies Collective
Faculty Co-Chairs: Destin Jenkins (History); Matthew Clair (Sociology)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Nicole Carroll (Religious Studies); Natasha Patel (Political Science)

Digital Aesthetics
Faculty Co-Chair: Shane Denson (Film and Media Studies)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Grace Han and Rebecca Turner (Art and Art History)

Ethics and Politics, Ancient and Modern
Faculty Co-Chairs: Chris Bobonich (Philosophy); Josiah Ober (Political Science) 
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Andrew Biondo (Philosophy)

Eurasian Empires
Faculty Co-Chairs: Nora Barakat (History); Partha Shil (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Julia Fine (History)

Facing the Anthropocene: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Faculty Co-Chairs: Leif Wenar (Philosophy); Nicole Adroin (Doerr); Rob Jackson (Doerr)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Cesár Valenzuela (Philosophy)

Fiber Optics: Plant Fiber Materials and Media
Faculty Co-Chairs: Hideo Mabuchi (Applied Physics); Thomas Mullaney (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Michelle Ha (Modern Thought and Literature)

The Medical Humanities
Faculty Co-Chairs: Tanya Luhrmann (Anthropology); Laura Wittman (French and Italian); Daniel Mason (Psychiatry)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Reem Badr (Anthropology)

Postcolonial Spatialities: Spatial Concepts
Faculty Co-Chair: Ato Quayson (African and African American Studies)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Christine Xiong (English)

Property, Territory, and Sovereignty on Indigenous Land
Faculty Co-Chair: Gregory Ablavsky (Law)
Graduate Student Co-Chair: Elliot M. Reichardt (Anthropology)

Religion, Politics, and Culture
Faculty Co-Chairs: David Como (History); Lerone Martin (Religious Studies)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Johanna Mueller (Religious Studies); Courtney MacPhee (History)

Slavery and Freedom
Faculty Co-Chairs: Zephyr Frank (History); Kathryn Olivarius (History)
Graduate Student Co-Chairs: Matt Randolph; Nina Borba; Lucy Stark (History)

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