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Elisa Leiva Anderson
Master of Fine Arts Student, Documentary Film and Video
BioElisa is a filmmaker from Santiago, Chile. She is the editor of Towards the Sun, Far from the Center (Berlinale, 2024), the producer and editor of Ripear un Desierto (Nemaf Korea, 2023), and the director of VIEWS (FicValdivia, 2015). She works with archival footage and digital technologies to reflect on displacement, image-making, and the multi-stranded connections—both personal and political—between Chile and the United States.
Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival (NYFF), Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), FIDOCS (Santiago International Film Festival), among others, and have been awarded by the Human Rights Institute of Chile.
In addition to her filmmaking, she has taught short film distribution at the Universidad Católica de Chile, served as Head of International Relations at CinemaChile for five years, and curated short film programs at the Uppsala Film Festival (Sweden) and the Matta Cultural Center (Argentina). -
Eva Lestant
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI am a second-year student in the Department of Economics at Stanford University and a Graduate Student Fellow. My areas of interest include development and econometrics. I am particularly interested in migration and urban economics.
Before starting my PhD, I worked as a Research Manager for Prof. Pascaline Dupas and Prof. Marcel Fafchamps on the AUDRI Project. In 2018, I graduated from Master in Economics at ENSAE and Polytechnique, Paris, France. -
Yoav Levinson-Sela
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2024
Workshop Coordinator, History DepartmentBioYoav is a History Ph.D. student specializing in Early Modern Europe. His research focuses on the relationship between the production of knowledge and the moral communities of knowers sustaining them, particularly in northern German protestant universities and throughout the seventeenth- and eighteenth- centuries. More broadly, he is interested in the history of knowledge, the social and cultural history of science, the history of education, and the history of the book.
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Jingpu Li
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2022
Current Research and Scholarly Interests1. The eastward spread of grape wine and its sinicization-archaeological evidence from northwest China in the Tang dynasty
2. Speculation on the death of Haihun Marquis in the Han Dynasty—Evidence from spectroscopic analysis of buried soils
3. Analysis of organic residues in small pottery from the Cha'Hai Site in the Early Neolithic of Northern China
4. Study on pit mud of Suixi Brewing Site in Ming & Qing Dynasties
