ANNUAL REPORT
2022-23
Stanford Global Studies The Stanford Global Studies Division is the university’s hub for education, research, and community engagement centered on exploring issues, societies, and cultures from a regional and global perspective.
The cover photo “Aguascalientes” was taken in Aguascalientes, Peru by undergraduate Gabriella Garcia while traveling to Machu Picchu. This page: “Kayaking in El Nido” was taken in Palawan, Philippines by international relations major Kelsey Carido.
Contents
Director’s Message
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About SGS
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Academic Programs
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Courses
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Faculty
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Visiting Scholars
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Research
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Language
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Internships
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Funding Map
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Events
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Oceanic Imaginaries
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Community Outreach
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Centers & Programs
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Highlights
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Alumni
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Financial Summary
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Administration
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The student photos included in this annual report were submissions from the annual SGS student photo contest. 3
Director’s Message
Dear Colleagues and Friends, It has been an action-packed year at Stanford Global Studies as we made significant strides toward returning to pre-pandemic life while advancing our mission of teaching, research, and community engagement on issues of regional and global importance. Throughout the year, we were inspired and enlightened by guest speakers from institutions around the globe, who covered topics as diverse as the struggle for women’s rights in Iran, the impact of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on the eve of historic elections, and global perspectives on human-centered AI. Through more than 450 events, we connected with more than 35,000 people in the U.S. and abroad. One especially memorable event was our annual student dinner featuring Nasiruddin Nezaami, a legal scholar from Afghanistan and visiting professor at the Stanford Law School. He spoke to students from across our 14 centers and programs about the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan and his efforts to help women on the ground.
Jisha Menon The Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division; Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
Nezaami is one of six scholars from countries including Ukraine, Russia, and Venezuela who came to campus this year through Stanford’s Scholar Rescue Fund, which offers residencies to international scholars facing threats, persecution, or severe hardship in their home countries. I am proud of the role SGS has played in initiating and growing this fund, with support from the President and Provost, the deans of the Schools of Medicine, Humanities & Sciences, Law, Business, and Sustainability, and the Stanford Humanities Center. This inaugural fund is a vital source of support to threatened and endangered scholars now and in the future. In partnership with the Scholar Rescue Fund, this spring we hosted “Citizenship and Belonging in Times of Political Crisis,” a panel discussion with three displaced scholars who shared their personal stories and experiences fighting for justice, freedom, and civil rights. The panel was the culminating event in our Global Dialogues Series, which fosters dynamic conversations around pressing global issues.
Yujing Zhang, a master’s student in East Asian studies, took this photo “Light from Heaven” on top of Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval castle in Syria. 4
This year, we also launched Oceanic Imaginaries, a multiyear initiative that adopts the world’s oceans as an analytical framework for advancing cross-regional, interdisciplinary research on timely global topics. The 2022-23 academic year focused on the Indian Ocean, featuring courses, lectures, exhibits, and performances that engaged with societies, cultures, geographies, and histories of the Indian Ocean world. Next year, we will turn our attention to the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea with anticipation. We are currently in the process of building a collaborative, interactive website that will showcase active maritime research at Stanford, with support from a Humanities Seed Grant from Stanford’s Changing Human Experience initiative. Our Global Research Workshop program, which supports the sharing of research across fields and national boundaries that advances global understanding, continued to flourish. This year, we funded five workshops that brought together faculty, graduate students, and scholars from Stanford and beyond to share innovative research on topics including judicial reform, sacred spaces, and the relationship between people and nature in the Anthropocene. Through our Title VI programs, we continued to expand our outreach to community colleges and high schools in California and across the U.S. For the first time this year, in partnership with the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching, we hosted a leadership program for senior community college administrators, including college presidents, deans, and department chairs. Over the course of the year, the leaders developed ways to build and increase institutional capacity for international education on their home campuses – from revitalizing global studies programs to creating short-term study abroad opportunities for students. We also provided funding to undergraduate and graduate students across the university to gain experience abroad and develop skills critical for leading in the world. More than 75
students participated in our Global Studies Internship Program in more than two dozen locations around the globe. And we provided more than $2.1 million to support 187 students, visiting scholars, and postdocs who conducted research and language study in 116 cities worldwide. For example, Samuel Loh, a master’s student in East Asian studies, completed archival research at the British Library Archives in London for his thesis on the interrelation between race, capitalism, and imperialism in colonial Malaya. “There really is nothing quite like being able to handle documents hundreds of years old, each of which is itself a unique window into a past world and human experiences so unimaginably divergent from our own,” Loh shared. “As someone interested in continuing my studies in history, I am very grateful to Stanford Global Studies for the opportunity to further sharpen my research skills and engage so closely with such fascinating material.” None of these activities would be conceivable without the brilliant faculty and staff across SGS, who work tirelessly to support our students and deliver pioneering academic programming. I am grateful for their leadership, dedication, and unwavering determination to make this all possible. In the 2023-24 academic year, I am taking a sabbatical to focus on my research. During this time, I will be stepping down as the director of SGS, and I am thrilled to share that Grant Parker, associate professor of classics, will be acting in an interim capacity. Grant is already an integral member of the SGS community, having served most recently as co-director of the Center for African Studies. I look forward to returning to my role as the director of SGS in September 2024 after taking a step back to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished and envision what’s next. Sincerely, Jisha Menon
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About SGS
The Stanford Global Studies (SGS) Division is the university’s hub for education, research, and community engagement centered on exploring issues, societies, and cultures from a regional and global perspective. Drawing on its network of more than 350 affiliated faculty, SGS equips Stanford students with the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills essential to leading in a global context and fosters innovative research that deepens society’s understanding of critical regions and global issues.
Stanford students who interned in the Baltics this summer through the Global Studies Internship Program in front of city hall in Riga, Latvia. Photo courtesy of Vabamu Museum. 6
Ecy King, a student affiliated with the Center for African Studies, wrote an educational comic book, Bit by Bit, that was printed by Stanford University Press.
Preparing Stanford Students to Lead in the World
308
and
Enrolled undergraduates
84
M.A. students
in
Internships
361 Affiliated faculty
67 45
cities around the world
in
14
centers and programs
Deepening Understanding of Global Issues SGS enables the next generation of scholars to creatively address regional and global issues and advance our understanding of the world.
$3.6M
For courses, research, language study, and internships for students, faculty, and visitors
486 Events
143
Language and globallyfocused courses 7
Academic Programs
Kelly Sieun Kim delivered a speech at the 2023 diploma ceremony for the Program in International Relations. Photo credit: Rod Searcey.
Undergraduate Programs
Degrees Granted
SGS supports interdisciplinary majors, minors, certificates, and honors programs for undergraduate students. In 2022-23, 308 students were enrolled in the division’s undergraduate programs. Most SGS students study overseas and acquire fluency in a second language as part of their degree requirements.
Bachelor of Arts
Global Studies Minor Open to undergraduates from any major, the global studies minor allows students to pursue interdisciplinary study in one of six specializations, including African studies, European studies, Iranian studies, Islamic studies, Latin American studies, and South Asian studies, while integrating this knowledge into a larger vision of global affairs.
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International Relations
Honors
4 International Relations Undergraduate Minor
7 Global Studies 23 Human Rights 11 International Relations Certificate
1 African Studies
Graduate Programs
Degrees Granted
SGS offers several M.A. programs, which provide students with training and exposure to regional affairs, collaborative student cohorts, supportive faculty, small class sizes, personalized advising, and competitive internship, fellowship, research, and travel opportunities. In 2022-23, a total of 67 students pursued master’s programs in SGS.
Master of Arts
8
17 East Asian Studies 10 Latin American Studies 8 Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies
Stanford history major and human rights minor Kyra Jasper was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, which will support her graduate studies at the University of London and the London School of Economics. Image credit: Yoo Ra Sung.
Courses Stanford Global Studies makes learning about and engaging with the world an integral part of a Stanford education.
$591K for courses
118
Globally-focused courses
Course Innovation Awards In 2022-23, SGS awarded three Stanford faculty members with Course Innovation Awards, which support courses that creatively offer ways for students to learn about topics of regional and global importance:
• GLOBAL 194: Understanding China’s Rise Andrew Walder, Denise O’Leary & Kent Thiry Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences • COLLEGE 200: Utopia, Dystopia, and Technology in Science Fiction: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Ban Wang, William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies • POLISCI 34Q: Nationalism Vasiliki Fouka, Assistant Professor of Political Science
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Language courses
Stanford students had the opportunity to explore historical materials housed at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives to uncover a forgotten chapter in U.S.-Russian History through a new course, Politics and Society in Early Soviet Russia. The class, taught by Bertrand Patenaude, focused on the American relief mission to Soviet Russia during the famine of 1921 to 1923, and some of the students’ research is now showcased as part of the Bread + Medicine online exhibition. Photo credit: Andrew Brodhead. 99
Faculty Faculty are integral to the division’s efforts to grow international awareness and understanding at Stanford and beyond. The 361 faculty affiliated with SGS centers and programs represent every school at Stanford—business, sustainability, education, engineering, law, medicine, and humanities and sciences—as well as many of Stanford’s centers and institutes.
Highlights Kenneth Schultz, professor of political science and director of the Program in International Relations, served as Faculty Senate chair in the 2022-23 academic year.
Sarah Derbew, assistant professor of classics, published Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, which explores blackness in ancient Greek literature and art.
Beatriz Magaloni, professor of political science, was awarded the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology in recognition of her research, which provides important evidence that police organizations are vulnerable to populist demands.
Percent of SGS-Affiliated Faculty by School School of Humanities & Sciences School of Medicine School of Engineering Graduate School of Education School of Law Doerr School of Sustainability Graduate School of Business
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23.3%
8.3%
Centers & Institutes
61.5%
70%
10%
4.4% 4.7% 2.8% 3.9% 4.4%
3.3% 3.3%
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Hoover Institution SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Visiting Scholars Over the past year, SGS centers and programs welcomed 58 visiting scholars, postdocs, and student researchers from 13 different countries to build global expertise on campus. These visitors strengthen the university’s intellectual and educational environment by delivering lectures, conducting research, mentoring students, and teaching courses.
SGS Student Dinner Nasiruddin Nezaami, a legal scholar from Afghanistan and a visiting professor at Stanford Law School, spoke at the annual SGS Student Dinner this spring about the aftermath of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. He is one of six visiting scholars at Stanford who are supported by Stanford’s Scholar Rescue Fund, which offers residencies to international scholars facing threats, persecution, or severe hardship in their home countries. The program is modeled after the Scholar Rescue Program offered by the Institute of International Education (IIE), who Stanford has partnered with for nearly a century to bring displaced academics to campus. 11
Research SGS facilitates research and data collection across fields and national boundaries to advance our understanding of the world. In addition to providing research fellowships, SGS programs and centers host collaborative research initiatives, publish reports, and facilitate student research.
$1.77M Research funding
187
Students, postdocs, and visiting scholars funded
25
Faculty funded
106
Cities around the world
Global Research Workshops SGS provides grants for Global Research Workshops to foster the sharing of research across academic fields and national boundaries that advances our understanding of the world. 2022-23 Workshops: • Global Approaches to Sacred Space (Bissera V. Pentcheva) • Global Trends in Judicial Reform (Diego Zambrano) • Law and Literature in the Global South (Hector Hoyos)
Graduate Student Research Samuel Loh, a master’s student in East Asian Studies, received a Global Perspectives Award from SGS to conduct research at the UK National Archives and the British Library Archives in London for his thesis, which explored the interrelation between race, capitalism, and imperialism from the vantage point of late nineteenth century colonial Malaya.
• Loss and the Global Human Record: Broken Books and Damaged Data (Elaine Treharne) • Reconnecting People and Nature in the Anthropocene (Rodolfo Dirzo)
Laurel Baker, a master’s student in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, captured this photo while conducting research in Norway on Chinese and Russian power operations in the Arctic. Her research was funded through a SGS Global Perspectives Award. 12
Language Foreign language skills are critical for enabling Stanford students to conduct research and lead in a global context. SGS centers and programs expand access to less commonly taught languages and support language learning by funding language courses and instructors, and also through language study fellowships.
$766K for language courses and fellowships
36
Students received language fellowships
25
Language courses
16
Languages studied or taught
Language Study Supported by SGS • Arabic • Chinese • Haitian Creole • Hebrew • Japanese • Korean • Náhuatl • Oromo • Persian
• Polish • Portuguese • Quechua • Russian • Tamil • Tibetan • Turkish • Urdu
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) In 2022-23, SGS’ National Resource Centers provided 19 students with more than $500,000 in funding to pursue fellowships for area and language studies, including Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Quechua, and Japanese.
International relations major Mu Hsi took this photo “From the Birthland to the Motherland” in Tha Song Yang, Thailand. 13
Internships Each year, global internships provide Stanford students with unique opportunities to extend classroom learning to immersive, cultural, and professional experiences around the world. This year, the Global Studies Internship Program offered 75 internships to undergraduate and graduate students. The internship program continues to be the Haas Center for Public Service’s largest campus partner for overseas service opportunities. In collaboration with centers and programs across SGS, the internship program facilitated and funded 75 internship placements. The Europe Center provided 9 additional opportunities, bringing the total to 84 internships funded across the division: 70 for undergraduates, 6 for M.A. students, and 8 for Ph.D. students.
75 + 9 = 84 in 28
Global Studies Internship Program Placements
Additional Center/ Program Internships
Locations Around the World
Roya Ahmadi Human Biology and Interdisciplinary Arts, ’24
“I was able to do an eight-week internship in Rabat, Morocco. I worked for a company called Moors and Saints this summer researching Moorish design and architectural history and writing articles about modern examples of transnationalism in Morocco. In addition to a fulfilling work experience, I was able to live in and travel around Morocco, which was a country I had been dreaming of visiting for many years. I will never forget stargazing in the Sahara Desert, celebrating Eid-al Adha with my host family in Rabat, walking through the labyrinth-like streets of the medina in Fez, and so many more experiences from this summer. Thank you so much for making this experience possible!”
International relations major Sarah Raza took this photo “Mostar” in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 14
Internships
2023-24 Internship Locations Argentina
• Puerta 18
Belgium
• Bruegel • LICOS Center for Institutions and Economic Performance • The Renew Europe • Center for European Policy Studies • The Lisbon Council
Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Post-Conflict Research Centre
Brazil
• Instituto Trabalho Decente
Chile
• SUMMA
China
• Keru • Youth Global Network
Costa Rica
• United Planet
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Estonia
• Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol • Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies - University of Tartu • Museum of Occupations and Freedom VABAMU • CCDCOE (NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence)
France
• LIRMM - University of Montpellier • Sorbonne University, Computational & Quantitative Biology • Cluny Museum • NeuroPsi, Paris Saclay Institute of Neuroscience • CentraleSupelec/ EM2C Lab • Paris Saclay/FAST Laboratory
Germany
Japan
• Max Planck Institute for the History of Science • Universität der Künste Berlin • Technical University of Braunschweig • Fraunhofer Institute for the History of Science • University of Würzburg • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics • ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) • Technical University of Munich
• Rogers Investment Advisors • Mitsubishi Research Institute
India
Morocco
• Magic Bus India Foundation
Korea
• Simone • Circus Image Works • Mirae Assets Securities
Latvia
• Riga Stradins University • Baltics Security Foundation • TechHub Riga
Malaysia
• Faeza & Co. • Moors and Saints
Pakistan
South Africa
• Lalela
Taiwan
• Taiwan Institute of Economic Research • Intumit Inc • Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital • International Climate Development Institute
Tanzania
• LOHADA
Turkey
• International Humanitarian Relief
Ukraine
• Center for Civil Liberties
United Kingdom
Indonesia
• National Disaster Management Authority
• MayDay Rooms • Oxfam International
Ireland
• Catholic Relief Services
Philippines
United States of America
• Institute for an Independent Judiciary • Gaiety School of Acting - The National Theatre School of Ireland
Portugal
• International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace • Bytendance Inc • California Lawyers for the Arts
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Funding Map SGS programs offer research grants and fellowships, internships, language study opportunities, and other funding options to students, faculty, and visiting scholars both in the U.S. and abroad. Below is a visual representation of student research, language study, and internship locations around the world.
Locations of Internships, Language Study, and/or Research • Argentina • Armenia • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Brazil 16
• Chile • China • Colombia • Costa Rica • Denmark • Estonia
• France • French Polynesia • Georgia • Germany • Greece • India
• Indonesia • Ireland • Italy • Japan • Jordan • Kenya
• Korea • Latvia • Lebanon • Malaysia • Mexico • Morocco
• Nepal • Nigeria • Norway • Pakistan • Palestine • Peru
Research Number of Scholars Funded: Undergraduate
52
Master’s
15
Ph.D.
64
Postdoc
3
Visiting Student Researcher
9
Visiting Scholar
44
Faculty
25
TOTAL FUNDING
$1,777,357
Language Study Number of Students Funded: Undergraduate
7
Master’s
18
Ph.D.
11
TOTAL FUNDING
$677,520
Global Internships Number of Students Funded: Undergraduate
70
Master’s
6
Ph.D.
8
TOTAL FUNDING
• Philippines • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Senegal • Singapore
• South Africa • Spain • Switzerland • Taiwan • Tanzania • Turkey
$569,992
• Ukraine • United Arab Emirates • United Kingdom • United States
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Events Events are at the heart of building the SGS community. By inviting scholars, performers, and other luminaries to speak and collaborate with our faculty and students, SGS events instill deep curiosity and knowledge about other peoples, regions, and cultures. In 2022-23, SGS centers and programs brought together over 35,752 attendees, who enjoyed 486 events.
486
Total number of events
292
Lectures, meetings, and webinars
88
Concerts, films, social, and cultural events
58
Conferences, symposia, and workshops
28
Educational outreach and professional development events
20
Podcasts
35,752 Total number of attendees
Global Dialogues SGS’ Global Dialogues Series is a webinar series that aims to foster fresh thinking on critical global issues.
2022-23 Events • F all: Liberalism and Its Global Trajectories • W inter: The Ripple Effect: Water Politics in a Global Context • S pring: Citizenship and Belonging in Times of Political Crisis
Endangered scholars Yevgenia Albats of Russia (left-center), Elisabeth N.M. Ayuk-Etang of Cameroon (right-center), and Nasiruddin Nezaami of Afghanistan (right) discuss the crises taking place in their home countries during the spring Global Dialogues event. Image credit: Rod Searcey. 18 18
Oceanic Imaginaries
Courses
This year, SGS launched Oceanic Imaginaries, a multi-year initiative that adopts the world’s oceans as an analytical framework for advancing cross-regional, interdisciplinary research and activities addressing timely global topics. The 2022-23 academic year focused on the Indian Ocean, featuring courses, lectures, exhibits, and performances that engaged with the societies, cultures, and histories of the Indian Ocean world.
In fall quarter, Professor Krish Seetah taught Global 112: Oceans and the Global Imaginary, a course that brings together various social, climatic, and ecological perspectives to seek a better understanding of the relationships between people and the sea.
Publications Stanford English Professor Margaret Cohen published a six-volume set that explores the cultural history of Earth’s oceans from antiquity to the modern era.
Events This year’s SGS Summer Film Festival was centered around the theme “Oceans that Unite Us and Divide Us” and featured five films from around the globe.
Students enrolled in Oceans and the Global Imaginary visited the Cantor Arts Center, where they used art to discuss the oceans, mobility, and exchange.
Hopkins Marine Station, the marine laboratory of Stanford University. Photo credit: Andrew Brodhead. 19 19
Community Outreach SGS is committed to outreach to foster global competencies, promote inclusive and equitable opportunities in global education, and share Stanford’s research expertise and educational resources with students and educators in our broader community and beyond. In 2022, the U.S. Department of Education designated Stanford Global Studies, and three of its centers as Title VI National Resource Centers (NRC): the Center for East Asian Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. These centers collaborate on programs to internationalize K-14 curricula, provide opportunities for research and instruction on critical global issues, and strengthen access to training in modern foreign languages and area studies.
Community College Student Fair Stanford’s NRCs hosted a fair for California community college students featuring a series of workshops led by Stanford scholars and students that explored global topics and international career paths.
“ What I learned from attending the fair was what passionate individuals look like, and how their interests drive them to excel when given the right combination of resources, skill, environment, possibilities, and opportunities,” — Mysha Quader, Mission Community College
Faculty and staff from community colleges across California and the U.S. attended the 2023 EPIC Symposium, which was held in Encina Commons on May 20. Photo credit: Rod Searcey. 20
Fellowship Programs
Fifteen educators participated in SGS’ two fellowship programs, representing a wide range of academic disciplines.
The Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) fellowship began in 2015 as a collaboration between SGS, the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, and the Stanford Program on International and CrossCultural Education to support faculty interested in developing global competencies among their students. This year, SGS also launched a leadership program in partnership with the Center to Support Excellence in Teaching for administrators at community colleges and minority-serving institutions who seek to build and expand institutional capacity for international education at their home campuses.
Global Educators Network The Global Educators Network (GEN) is a growing association of community college educators founded by EPIC alumni whose mission is to advance global studies in and out of the classroom.
GEN board members Cynthia Brannvall and Scott Lankford in conversation at the 2023 EPIC Symposium. Photo credit: Rod Searcey.
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Centers & Programs The Stanford Global Studies Division is home to 14 centers & programs within the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Center for African Studies
Director: Joel Cabrita Associate Director: Laura Hubbard africanstudies.stanford.edu
Center for East Asian Studies
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Director: Jessica Riskin Program Manager: Isabelle Collignon francestanford.stanford.edu
Director: Dafna Zur Associate Director: John Groschwitz ceas.stanford.edu
Global Studies Internship Program
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Co-directors: David Cohen and Kiyoteru Tsutsui Associate Director: Penelope Van Tuyl humanrights.stanford.edu
Center for Latin American Studies Director: Alberto Díaz-Cayeros Associate Director: Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann clas.stanford.edu
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Director: Amir Weiner Associate Director: Jovana Knežević creees.stanford.edu
Center for South Asia
Director: Anna Bigelow Associate Director: Lalita du Perron southasia.stanford.edu
The Europe Center
Director: Anna Grzymala-Busse Program Administrator: Alyssa Goya tec.fsi.stanford.edu
Program Manager: Grace Munene global-internships.stanford.edu
Director: Abbas Milani Associate Director: Roma Parhad iranian-studies.stanford.edu
Mediterranean Studies Forum
Director: Lisa Blaydes Associate Director: Halil Yenigun mediterraneanstudies.stanford.edu
Program in International Relations Director: Kenneth Schultz Associate Director: Paul Festa internationalrelations.stanford.edu
Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies Director: Lisa Blaydes Associate Director: Halil Yenigun islamicstudies.stanford.edu
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Director: Charlotte Fonrobert Associate Director: Shaina Hammerman jewishstudies.stanford.edu
Jackie Foltz, an affiliate with The Europe Center, took this photo “Mt. Teide Sunrise” in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain 22
Highlights Center for African Studies
Monica Gandhi (center) with CAS staff and faculty members.
The Center for African Studies (CAS) annual Centering Africa lecture aims to showcase the work and contribution of leading figures from the African continent and the African diaspora. The series celebrates cutting-edge public thinkers and sparks debate about topics of pressing contemporary importance. Previous speakers have included ethical AI advocate Timnit Gebru and literary critic and editor Ellah Wakatama. In 2022, we were delighted to welcome Monica Gandhi, a prominent infectious diseases physician and leading voice on public health. Gandhi’s earlier work focused on HIV-AIDS, including in West Africa, and her lecture to the CAS community reflected upon what lessons the HIV-AIDS epidemic offers to public health practitioners in the era of COVID-19. Gandhi made it clear that the African continent sits at the very heart of contemporary debates around global public health.
Center for East Asian Studies The Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of Music hosted a symposium on April 25-26 at the Stanford Humanities Center, which explored cutting-edge research in traditional Japanese performing arts. The two-day event convened renowned scholars from academia, researchers in digital humanities, and esteemed performers of Noh theater. Noh, a traditional Japanese theatrical form, has long captivated imaginations with its complex interplay of sung text, acting, visual staging, costume, movement, and music. The symposium also celebrated the release of the scholarly website Noh as Intermedia, developed by Stanford faculty members Jarosław Kapuściński and François Rose in partnership with Professor Takanori Fujita from Kyoto City University of Arts and Stanford Library’s Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research.
Noh demonstration without masks by performers from Japan.
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Highlights Center for Human Rights & International Justice
Fadilla Octaviani and Stephanie Juwana from the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative joined David Cohen and Jessie Brunner from the Center for Human Rights and International Justice to discuss sustainable and equitable ocean governance.
Environmental and social sustainability are often considered in isolation, but the linkages between the two are increasingly clear, especially when it comes to the world’s oceans. For the past several years, Stanford researchers from the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) have been working with colleagues at the Indonesia Ocean Justice Initiative (IOJI) on a project with the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation and its member companies aimed at eliminating modern slavery from supply chains. Since its founding, the IOJI has supported the government of Indonesia in implementing and enforcing sustainable ocean practices. In the spring, the Center for Human Rights and International Justice hosted a discussion, which elevated the work of the IOJI to advocate for sustainable and equitable ocean governance in Indonesia. The event was sponsored as part of Stanford Global Studies’ Oceanic Imaginaries, a multi-year initiative that adopts the world’s oceans as an analytical framework for advancing research on timely global topics.
Center For Latin American Studies Over the summer, a group of 14 educators from across the U.S. participated in a summer institute led by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. This unique opportunity was designed to support the 2016 Science Framework for California Schools and to provide a wealth of material for high school and community college teachers of natural and social sciences. Led by William Durham, Bing Professor in Human Biology (Emeritus) and author of Exuberant Life: An Evolutionary Approach to Conservation in Galapagos, this professional development program involved a five-day expedition aboard a chartered boat to explore the volcanic islands and clear waters of the Galápagos. Educators observed pivotal sites and species that have shaped our understanding of ecology, conservation, and biological evolution, and enjoyed scholarly talks by Professor Durham and CLAS Director Alberto Díaz-Cayeros. Beyond the remarkable wildlife encounters, teachers learned about sustainable agribusinesses on Santa Cruz Island and gained insights from the Tomas de Berlanga School on children’s conservation and ecology education.
As part of the “Engaging with the Américas: The Galápagos Islands” summer program, participants joined Professor Durham (left) on a mangrove excursion in Black Turtle Cove on the north shore of Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. 24 24
Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies This year’s annual Alexander Dallin Lecture at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) featured investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, who presented on “Russia at War: The Inside Politics of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” on February 23, 2023. The event generated significant community interest, drawing an audience of more than 80 people. This lecture series serves as a tribute to Professor Alexander Dallin, a founding director of CREEES.
Andrei Soldatov delivered the keynote address at this year’s Alexander Dallin Lecture.
Center for South Asia
LaWhore Vagistan’s performance explored South Asian popular culture through anecdote, monologues, and dance. Photo credit: Rod Searcey.
In May 2023, the Center for South Asia welcomed Kareem Khubchandani to campus for a series of events on Critical Auntie Studies. Khubchandani is an associate professor of theater, dance, and performance studies at Tufts University and the author of Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020). Khubchandani’s visit consisted of three events: a workshop aimed at graduate students, “Divas, Drag Queens, Aunties, and Other Academic Personas”; a performance as South Asian drag aunty LaWhore Vagistan, “Lessons in Drag”; and a public talk, “Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties.” While many in the Stanford community were enthralled by this extraordinary series of events, Khubchandani’s engagement with students made his visit particularly successful.
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Highlights The Europe Center The Europe Center (TEC) launched the Rethinking European Development and Security (REDS) seminar series. The series strives to develop a more sophisticated understanding of Europe in all its geographic, political, economic, and security aspects. The series focuses on the “lands-between,” such as Ukraine, the Baltics, Balkans, and East Central Europe, whose experiences and preferences have all too often been ignored or dismissed. The inaugural series seeks to rectify the failure to appreciate the diversity of European interests and perspectives, and to develop a bold new interdisciplinary agenda that focuses on issues critical to all of Europe, such as the role of imperial powers, internal divisions, national identity, erosion of democracy, and the integrity of both the European Union and NATO.
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Amanda Zhang
Stephen Kotkin | REDS Seminar: European Security, Past, Present, Future
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The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies established a new fellowship in partnership with Stanford Libraries called the Roxane Debuisson Collection Fellowship. This fellowship provides funding to a Stanford graduate student to improve access and knowledge about the Roxane Debuisson Collection on Paris History. Amanda Zhang, a graduate student in the Department of History, was awarded the inaugural fellowship and worked on cataloging the stereoviews, chromolithographs, as well as a section of Roland Liot’s photographs. The collection covers nearly every aspect of everyday life in Paris, including consumer culture, fashion, leisure, cuisine, animals, means of transportation, among many others. Working on the collection has been an invaluable opportunity for Amanda to visually reconstruct the everyday life of people living in France’s capital. She especially enjoyed the archival aspect of the work in the special collections, which allowed her to see how an archive is constructed and organized firsthand.
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies In response to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement in Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Studies Program hosted several large-scale events, created a solidarity gathering for Stanford affiliates, and publicly condemned the regime’s violence. The program created a new series titled “Prospects and Challenges for Transition to Democracy in Iran.” Part I consisted of a conference titled, Dialogues on Iran’s Transition to Secular Democracy, that featured more than 50 speakers and 100 experts and civil society activists who discussed and deliberated on what is needed to transition to a secular democracy in Iran. Part II brought together six prominent Iranian American business leaders to discuss the role of women in the future economy, dynamic entrepreneurship, and the impact of the Iranian diaspora on the transition to a future democratic Iran. Future topics will include “Women and Democratic Transition” and “Democratic Constitution: Ethnic and Religious Minorities.”
Fay Arjomandi, CEO and founder of Mimik, discusses the role of women in Iran’s transition to democracy during the second part of the new Iran Transitions series.
Program in International Relations In 2020, Stanford’s Faculty Senate passed legislation requiring that Stanford students complete a robust capstone as part of their major. Consequently, this year the Program in International Relations (IR) focused on capstone design and development, and two highlights included a student focus group session and a pilot practicum course. In February, IR Director Ken Schultz led a lively and informative discussion over lunch with 15 IR seniors, who discussed how the BOSP study abroad experience might serve as the foundation for developing a capstone project. In winter quarter, the IR program piloted a practicum course where ten students worked with San Francisco-based NGO Accountability Counsel (AC) on issues germane to their operations. The course was taught by IR lecturer Erica Gould, who serves as a director on the AC Board. The class visited AC in San Francisco early in the quarter and held regular Zoom meetings with their staff thereafter. At the end of the quarter, the IR program hosted AC representatives on campus, and students presented the results of their work and made policy recommendations. IR students visited Accountability Counsel in San Francisco in winter quarter. 27
Highlights Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & Mediterranean Studies Forum In 2023, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies celebrated its 20th anniversary by launching the inaugural Abbasi Annual Lecture. During the event, Carl Ernst, professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Mbaye Lo, associate professor at Duke University, discussed the “Autobiography” of Omar ibn Said (1770-1863), a Muslim scholar who was captured in West Africa and sold into slavery in America. Ibn Said left behind a unique record of his experiences through this 1831 autobiography. Notably, the lecture expounded on the theological and mystical aspects of his writings, which were encapsulated by his statement, “I cannot write my life.” Apart from celebrating the program’s two-decade-long history, this lecture also invited a reevaluation of the role of Islam and Arabic at the dawn of America’s history by bringing to light the enduring legacy of Omar ibn Said.
What is the autobiography of Omar ibn Said?
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Taube Center for Jewish Studies
Ilya Kaminsky
llya Kaminsky, a Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator, and teacher, visited campus in November for a conversation with Stanford alum Dr. Shoshana Olidort. Kaminsky performed several of his poems with a musicality that moved those in attendance. While he is known in many corners as an activist for the work he has done to translate testimonies from Ukrainians since the outbreak of the war, Kaminsky rejected that label. Calling himself a human being rather than an activist, Kaminksy framed his experience as a Jewish Ukrainian working to amplify stories coming out of Ukraine and from refugees as something he does because he has no other choice. “Translation is impossible,” he said. “It is fiction. But we must do it. Because without it, we don’t have Torah in English or Bible in Russian…translation is impossible, but you must do it. Same thing with faith—it’s impossible, but if you don’t have it, life is very boring.”
Alumni The international area centers and programs that make up SGS have influenced the career decisions of thousands of students. Our alumni are truly global. They have built careers around a diverse range of interests and value many aspects of their global education since leaving Stanford. SGS provided many of them with the skills needed to be policymakers, diplomats, entrepreneurs, journalists, politicians, researchers, teachers, scholars, and global leaders. International relations alumni at an ice cream social during Stanford’s Reunion Homecoming weekend in October.
Career Development Series SGS organized a series of career development workshops featuring Stanford scholars and alumni from various SGS programs this year.
E. Tendayi Achiume, the Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School, and Penelope Van Tuyl, associate director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, shared tips on how to pursue a career in international law with Stanford students. 29 29
Financial Summary Expenses
Funding
Student Aid & Tuition Allowance
$ 2,838,855
H&S Dean’s Office
$ 2,027,314
Salaries: Staff
$ 3,164,186
Endowment Income
$ 3,586,628
Salaries: Academic
$ 1,088,915
Federal & Non-Federal Grants & Contracts
$ 1,703,043
Programming & Operating Expenses
$ 2,672,244
Provost, President’s Office & Other
$ 3,720,372
Benefits
$ 1,385,625
Gifts
$ 737,251
Commitment for FY23-34 Activities
$ 550,561 Total
$ 11,700,386
Total
$ 11,700,386
Gifts & Support The Stanford Global Studies Division extends sincere appreciation to our contributing alumni, parents, students, and friends for their generous support. Financial support provides core funding to strengthen our existing programs and help create new ones where needed, enhance interaction among faculty and students, and facilitate collaboration with other university programs. Funds are focused on activities that impact the broadest range of faculty and students and offer high leverage by encouraging communication and collaboration. Such activities include curriculum development; seminars, symposia, and conferences; visiting scholar programs; development of research networks linking internal and external faculty and students; research initiatives on key topics; and direct financial support for our students—the next generation of outstanding leaders, scholars, and policymakers. For more information about working with us to enhance global studies initiatives at Stanford, please contact Scott Sugiura, Senior Associate Director of Development at: ssugiura@stanford.edu or (650) 723-1208.
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Administration Jisha Menon Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division; Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature Katherine Kuhns Executive Director Sylvia Arechiga Administrative Associate Donna Even-Kesef Division Manager
Grace Munene Global Studies Internship Program Manager Luba Petrovchich Financial Analyst Stefanie Pietkiewicz Communications Manager Julie Won Tatsukawa Graphic Designer
Kristyn Hara Outreach and Academic Manager
This page: International relations major Leonardo Glikbarg captured this photo “The Polar Ore Train” in a small artic town called Kiruna in the far north of Sweden. Back page: Electrical engineering major Graham Shunk took this photo “Cowbells” while traveling to Switzerland during his summer abroad participating in the Global Studies Internship Program. 31 31
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