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Women who grind the coal used to fuel brick kilns outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. | Navaism

Fishers in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The “Blue Food Transformations in Indonesia“ project identifies regions and populations that can most benefit from greater blue food consumption. | iStock / Heri Mardinal

Desiree LaBeaud and members of the community-based organization HERI Kenya in 2023. LaBeaud, with her longtime Kenyan research collaborators Francis Mutuku and Bryson Ndenga, co-founded HERI Kenya to support community-based changes related to their research on infectious diseases and the environment. | Courtesy Desiree LaBeaud and HERI Kenya

A law enforcement officer meets with community members in Brazil.

Stanford scholars say that technological innovation is not an inevitable force that exercises power over us. Instead, in a new book, they seek to empower all of us to create a technological future that supports human flourishing and democratic values.

Stepan Sharkov

Jeremy Weinstein, professor of political science and director of the Stanford Global Studies Division, is faculty director of the Stanford Impact Labs, a new initiative that connects faculty studying social problems with community partners who work to co-create solutions.

Image credit: L.A. Cicero

Francis Mutuku, a researcher at the Technical University of Mombasa who collaborates with Stanford’s Desiree Labeaud, examines purposeless containers for mosquito breeding in rural Kenya. 

Image credit: Desiree Labeaud

Ruiheng Li

Azadi Tower, Tehran, Iran. 

Photo credit: Vahid Mazaheri on Unsplash

Anna Boch

Negotiations in a canal water dispute mediated by irrigation personnel in Pakistan. 

Photo credit: Maira Hayat

Rayan Sud '21 in southern France.

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Adam Kochanski

Thomas Ashforth, M.A. East Asian Studies '18

Iran 2040 Project

The facade of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, a court established to try the most senior responsible members of the Khmer Rouge for alleged violations of international law and serious crimes perpetrated during the Cambodian genocide. Plans are underway to incorporate materials from the court's proceedings into the Virtual Tribunal. (Photo credit: Kurt Hickman)

David Freeman Engstrom (left) and SGS Director Jeremy M. Weinstein (right)

Japsimran Kaur, ’18, (fourth from right) and other Stanford team members with research assistants from Gujarat.

Stanford Global Studies Director Jeremy Weinstein.

Emma Puighermanal (front right) with Dr. Jun Ding (front left) and fellow researchers.

Trends in Iran's population growth and total fertility rate.

Iran 2040 Project

Bricks dry outside a kiln in Bangladesh. (Faizul Latif Chowdhury / Wikimedia Commons)

Stanford sophomore Tien Vo, left, discusses her research with Professor Amy Zegart during their meeting in early September. (Image credit: Alex Shashkevich; Stanford News)

Ardeshir Zahedi with Richard Nixon in Tehran in 1969.

Undergraduate Anatole Schneider researched the Italian election of 1948 using original newspapers from Italy at the Hoover Library & Archives. (Image credit: L.A. Cicero)

Joel Beckner (far right), M.A. candidate in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies ‘17, with his research team from Stanford's U.S.-Russia Forum.

Hoover Institution archives include posters from the 1979 Iranian Revolution. (Image credit: Hoover Institution Archives)

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Anna Polishchuk’s interest in Stanford’s Iranian Studies Program led her to archival collections at the Hoover Institution to examine top-secret Soviet documents related to the Iranian Revolution.

L.A. Cicero

Latin American Studies Alumnus Hari Seshasayee

Cyclone Gudrun (Erwin) hits the North Sea in 2005.

Xiang Zhai

The Mapping Cairo Team (L to R): Alexandra Blackman, Caroline Abadeer, and Scott Williamson

While on her research trip, Mayol took this photo outside of Kigali, Rwanda.

Taylor Mayol (CAS), M.A. ’14

Stanford students Havi Mirell (fourth from left) and Daniel Mattes (second from right) with the rest of the trial monitoring team, including members from Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Indonesia, and Cambodia.

From left to right: Jess Auerbach, Laura Hubbard, Mark Gardiner, Assistant Director for the Global Supply Chain Management Forum Davis Albohm, Vanessa Watters, and CAS Ford Dorsey Dissertation Research Fellow Ken Opalo

In 2013, 45 students participated in Summer Research College, a program that gives Stanford undergraduates the opportunity to assist faculty with research during the 10-week break. Students were matched with faculty mentors and participated in research about international relations and political science.

Photo by Steve Castillo