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An acclaimed scholar of southern African nations, he also served many years as department chair.James “Jim” Ferguson, the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences,…
The Stanford Iranian Studies director has spent two decades transforming the program he founded into a global hub for the study of modern Iran.Abbas Milani has vivid memories of what it was like in Tehran the day before the Iranian Revolution in…
Lalita du Perron
“I want listeners to understand the breadth of the study of South Asia,” Lalita du Perron, host of the “South Asian Studies at Stanford Podcast” (SASSpod) and associate director of the Center for South Asian Studies, said. Since 2020, du Perron…
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Margaret Cohen, the Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization and professor in the Department of English, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her oceanic humanities project,…
Fishers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The “Blue Food Transformations in Indonesia“ project identifies regions and populations that can most benefit from greater...
A collaboration between Stanford researchers and Indonesian organizations aims to capitalize on aquatic food sources to improve nutrition, food security, and livelihoods.A country of 17,000 islands is at the forefront of a global effort to…