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Christopher B. Krebs is the Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies, Professor of Classics, and, by courtesy, of German Studies and Comparative Literature Stanford University. Krebs' principal research interests are Greek and Roman Historiography , Latin Lexicography and the Classical tradition .
Stefan Bergman (5 May 1895 – 6 June 1977) was a Poland-born American mathematician whose primary work was in complex analysis.He is known for the kernel function he discovered in 1922 at University of Berlin.
Parlett received in 1955 his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Oxford and then worked in his father's timber business for three years. From 1958 to 1962 he was a graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1962.
The divestment campaign, part of the broader Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, had gained traction on several university campuses, including Stanford, with the goal of pressuring Israel to change its policies toward Palestinians. Zipperstein, while making clear his opposition to the Israeli occupation, argues that divestment is ...
William L. Ellsworth is an American seismologist who is a research faculty member at Stanford University.His research covers a range of topics of earthquake science focusing on the physics of earthquake nucleation, earthquake hazard assessment, and active fault processes as studied through earthquakes.
William Egginton is the author of How the World Became a Stage (2003), Perversity and Ethics (2006), A Wrinkle in History (2007), The Philosopher's Desire (2007), The Theater of Truth (2010), In Defense of Religious Moderation (2011), The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered In the Modern World (2016), The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity, Inequality, and Community on ...
He received his BS and MS at Emory University in 1972 and 1973 and his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1976 under advisor Donald Iglehart. From 1976 to 1985 he taught at UCLA. From 1985 until 2010 was on the faculty at Cornell University, where his students included Claudia Neuhauser. Since 2010, Durrett has been a professor at Duke University.
She is the director of Stanford's American studies program and codirector (with Gordon Chang) of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford University. [ 6 ] In 2019, on the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, Fishkin and Chang published the co-edited volume The Chinese and the Iron Road ...