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Londa Schiebinger’s study of 30,000 faculty at 13 leading U.S. research universities showed that women scientists’ do twice as much housework in their households as men scientists. She recommends that in order to attract and retain highly-qualified women, universities need to offer benefits to support housework to all employees, men and women, partnered and single. Such support should be considered part of the structural cost of doing business. The Economist (Jan 22, 2010)
The Economist debates adapt the Oxford style of debating to an online forum. The latest debate is: Women – this house believes that women in the developed world have never had it so good. Londa Schiebinger, director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, is a featured guest on the debates. The Economist
“China's ethnic theme parks” with observations from Tom Mullaney, Assistant Professor of History. The New York Times
Assistant Professor Aishwary Kumar is elected a fellow by The National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education
Robert Crews, Associate Professor of History, moderated a timely conference on Afghanistan... The Stanford Review (Dec 4, 2009)
"Historian Discovers that the Chinese Typewriter is No Joke" The Stanford Report interviews History's Assistant Professor Thomas S. Mullaney about his new research."
“Creating Lives in the Classroom” an article by Edith Sheffer. The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 22, 2009)
"Professor fights subpoena" History Professor Robert Proctor
The Stanford Daily (October 28, 2009)
Q&A: Stanford’s David Holloway on Obama’s missile defense plan. The Stanford Report (September 17, 2009)
Priya Satia's book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East is the recipient of the 2009 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. The American Historical Association offers the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize annually for a distinguished book by an American author in the field of European history. Together with the Leo Gershoy Award, the Adams Prize is the most important distinction bestowed by the profession in the field of European history.
Toronto National Post’s “Last link mourned”, Prof. Priya Satia comments on last WWI veteran’s passing.
Toronto National Post (August 7, 2009)
"Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq" by Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Financial Times (Aug 4, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “Iraqis are too Shewd to fall for an ‘Invisible’ Occupation”
Financial Times (July 1, 2009)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia won the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch’s award for the best first book in any field of history(February, 2009).
Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan”
Financial Times (May 20, 2009)
Assistant Professor Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Typewriter” on The China Beat, May 14, 2009
Stanford Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor Priya Satia on “Lessons of War” in their May/June 2009 issue.
Time Magazine listed History Senior Lecturer Martin Lewis' YouTube Edu video as one of their favorites in the April 27, 2009 issue.
History: Geography of U. S. Elections
History Professor Steven Zipperstein’s article “Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 8,2009)
History Honors student, Stephanie Beck had an op-ed based on her Honors thesis on an earlier epidemic of the swine flu in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“When politics, and swine flu, infect health”
History Professor Steven Zipperstein on 'Rosenfeld's Lives'
Stanford Report interview (4/29/09)
Assistant Professor Priya Satia on "Britain's 'Covert Empire' in Iraq during the Mandate Era,"
interview on NPR's Worldview (WBEZ-Chicago), March 27, 2009.
History Professor James Campbell on 'Historical Consciousness'
Stanford Report interview (2/25/09)
Stanford Report video (2/25/09)
Events:
Spatial History Lab Luncheon
Open to current and prospective History Majors
January 12, 2010, Noon
British History Lecture Series
Discussion forum of Professor Vickery's new book, "Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England"
Amanda Vickery, Royal Holloway College, University of London
January, 28, 2010, 6:00 pm
Prospective History Majors Dinner
Thinking about Majoring in History? Come join History Faculty, Alumni, Upper-class students for an informal presentation over dinner.
February 10, 2010, 6:30 pm
British History Lecture Series
"Getting out of Iraq - in 1932: Imperialism, Internationalism, and the Construction of Normative Statehood"
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
March 4, 2010, 4:15 pm
New Books by History Faculty
Islam and Social Change in French West Africa, by Sean Hanretta
Diverse Nations: Explorations in the History of Racial and Ethnic Pluralism, by George M. Fredrickson
Italy's Eighteenth Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour , Edited by Paula Findlen, Wendy Wassyng Roworth, and Catherine M. Sama
Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing, Steven J. Zipperstein
Guardians of Islam, Kathryn A. Miller
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, Edited by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson, and Paul Karlstrom
Spies in Arabia, Priya Satia
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?, James J. Sheehan
The First Day of the Blitz, Peter Stansky
The Essential Feminist Reader, edited by Estelle B. Freedman
Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges, edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal and Karen Wigen
The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900, Caroline Winterer
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China), Mark Edward Lewis
Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science, edited by Jessica Riskin
Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa, edited by Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts
Brazil since 1980 , Francisco Vidal Luna and Herbert S. Klein
From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, edited by Zephyr Frank, Carlos Marichal and Steven Topik
The Worlds of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Intellectual at the Turn of the Century with CD, edited by Gabriella Safran and Steven J. Zipperstein
An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism,
1880-1914, J.P. Daughton
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia, Robert D. Crews
Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics, by Estelle B. Freedman
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel 1993-2005, by Joel Beinin & Rebecca L. Stein
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture, Edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Kennell Jackson
The Flood Myths of Early China by Mark Edward Lewis
Last updated March 17, 2009