Current Projects

This project uses spatial and social network analysis to examine how Greek colonies in the Black Sea (eighth to fourth centuries BCE) connected with each other, their hinterlands, and neighboring c

Kayra Guven is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. She studies imperial travel networks and mobility, focusing on the history of commercial airline routes in the twentieth century.

Haby is a Ph.D. candidate in French at Stanford University, where her research explores representation of freedom and subjectivity in the Francophone postcolonial context.

This study reconstructs a largely overlooked episode of coordinated peasant action—the widespread destruction of aristocratic dovecotes in 1789—and argues that these attacks illuminate the environm

Demand for electric energy has surged during the last few years due to the ever-increasing electrification of society and its growing needs such as e-mobility, robotics, telecommunications, computi

Concepts of biodiversity, which originated from studies in ecology and evolutionary biology, are now also applied in biomedicine to describe diversity phenomena at the cellular level—for example, t

Sinking marine particles, termed “marine snow” for their resemblance to falling snowflakes, transport carbon from the sunlit surface ocean to the deep sea.

When we synchronize with a partner, our brains coordinate movement with striking precision.

The Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford Law School and Sciences Po Paris will jointly host a major conference examining critical rule of law questions surrounding executive power across t

RNAs and the proteins they interact with - called RNA binding proteins (RBPs) - are important for making sure genes behave.

My project studies the incidence of the corporate income tax. The corporate income tax is levied on profits and therefore falls on firms’ owners, the shareholders.

Over the past two decades, digital platforms have become common tools for involving citizens in public debate and decision-making.

As “AI ethics” emerges as a distinct area of work within technology companies, think tanks, and NGOs, this project examines how the field is being professionalized and institutionalized.

Through an interdisciplinary methodology combining humanities and social sciences - be it history (printed, digital and oral), media studies and sociology - Dr.

Transportation vehicles lose much of their energy to turbulence. Nearly 15% of the world's energy consumption goes to overcoming turbulent drag on vehicle surfaces.

Cancer is now recognized as a systemic disease whose growth and progression depend not only on tumor cells but on the coordinated behavior of many different cell types surrounding the tumor.

My dissertation examines the history of coercive child labor regimes across the French Atlantic World between the end of the Seven Years’ War (1763) and the fall of the Second Empire (1870).

In late 1967, the Newsreel collective was created in New York City as an underground media group producing counter-information films in support of the antiwar movement.

My research studies how the transition to cleaner technologies reshapes firms and workers, with a focus on the automobile industry.

Mudigonda Sarath Chandra's dissertation focuses on how firms and industrial policy adapt to flood risk in India, a question central to understanding the interplay between climate change and industr

Cross-species comparisons of animal development have revealed how animal body plans evolved through modifications in developmental mechanisms.

Symbiosis is the persistent interaction between organisms of different species.

As a doctoral researcher, my contribution to this project focuses on the idea that simply feeling connected to another person, sensing that "someone is really with me", can change how the brain kee

Large Language Models are now expected to juggle several safety requirements at once: avoiding bias, avoiding toxic language, staying factually accurate.

The modern theory of Hall algebras provides a way to associate an abstract algebraic structure to a given geometry. This method opens up two overlapping areas of research.