After a decade of leadership at Stanford’s largest school, Richard Saller plans to leave the H&S deanship at the end of the academic year and return to full-time teaching. Provost Persis Drell will shortly appoint a search committee and begin an international search for his successor.
Stanford linguist Dan Jurafsky and colleagues have found that products in Japan sell better if their advertising includes polite language and words that invoke cultural traditions or authority.
Alan Harvey, director of Stanford University Press, says the press’s digital publishing program gives scholars an extraordinary opportunity to publish and peer review their interactive scholarship.
Charles Kronengold’s research fills a void in scholarship on genres like soul, funk and disco and artists like Aretha Franklin and Earth, Wind and Fire.
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In a Q&A, nuclear security scholar Gabrielle Hecht discusses the consequences of nuclear war, what radioactive contamination would look like today and what damage nuclear activities have already caused.
Italy, a previously fascist country, became a democracy shortly after World War II ended. That transition and the country’s 1948 election are still sources of debate, and led Stanford undergraduate Anatole Schneider to search for answers.
Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minian traces the establishment of Mexican social clubs and the funds they raised for their hometowns between the 1960s and 1980s.
A new professional development course at Stanford for middle and high school teachers highlights the importance of teaching the history of the First World War in a global context.
