Humanities & Arts

Justine Brisson, Sciences Po Paris, CERI, Paris

My research is at the crossroad between literature, philosophy and political theory. More precisely, I study the intertwined relations between politics, literature and…

Grant Parker, Department of Classics, Stanford University, Olivier Loiseaux, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

This project will digitally map Le Vaillant’s journey from the account of his journey into the interior of the Cape of Good Hope (1781-83). The Voyage de M. le Vaillant dans…

My dissertation, “The Drama of our World: Spectator and Subject in Medieval Kashmir and Early Modern Europe,” is a comparative study on characterizations of the subject, the…

Christian Galdón, Paris 1/Paris 8 University, Paris

Daniel Sada is one of the most complex writers in the landscape of Latin American literature. Often compared to Joyce for his linguistic…

Chloe Edmondson, Stanford Introductory Studies, Thinking Matters, Stanford University

The objective of this project is to rethink the evolution of 17th and 18th-century letter-writing practices in France through an interdisciplinary approach that combines…

Lazare Lubek, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

“Spectral” music, a contemporary movement initiated in the 70’s, uses the acoustic properties of sound as its main source material. In “…

Emre Daglioglu, Department of History, Stanford University

This project seeks to explore the ways in which capitalism as a social process was re-established, reorganized, and operated in the late Ottoman Empire, especially between…

Utku Asuroglu, Department of Music, Stanford University

It is an honor to be selected as a Visiting Student Researcher by the France Stanford Center and to carry out my research in technology…

Fiona Griffiths, Department of History, Stanford University, Emilie Kurdziel, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Our project focuses on clerical celibacy in its medieval context—the celibacy rulings of the eleventh century and their Carolingian…

In the winter of 2021, I will be working remotely under Dr. Vincent Debiais at L…

Marisa Galvez, Department of French and Italian, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University, Gabriel Catren, University Paris Diderot, Paris

In the last century, major breakthroughs in our understanding of ‘identity’ have changed the way that we think about ourselves and the…

Anna Bigelow, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Dionigi Albera, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence

We live in an age of racial, ethnic and religious tension. Our project produces an alternative narrative by asking why people cross…

Clara Romani

For this project, I will work on late medieval law in France and in Europe. Part of my time will be spent revising the metadata for a…

Michael McFarland

I am going to be conducting extensive research across visual culture to identify the principal currents in the visual arts during the…

Carly Taylor

During my research project, I will build a database of all Macron's presidential discourses since May 7th, 2017 for f