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Serena Shah
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2021
GRAD Research Assistant, History DepartmentBioI am a PhD candidate in U.S. History. I study the history of ideas and the production of knowledge in our major cultural institutions, especially universities and museums. I specialize in the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
My dissertation, "American Orientalism and Liberal Education: Building Moral Responsibility in the Gilded Age," examines an early defense of liberal education mounted by scholars at elite research universities after the Civil War. These scholars, who called themselves "orientalists," invented the idea of “Western civilization" and argued that the origins of the West lay in the ancient Orient (the region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East). In an age of moral crisis, orientalists and academic leaders made the case that it was the role of the university to train the nation’s young people in an unbroken story of human progress, and to create responsible, informed citizens capable of participation in a functioning democracy.
I also study Americans' ideas about antiquity more broadly in the long nineteenth century. I am in the process of publishing a research article on Greek and Roman slave-naming practices and the classicism of American slavery. The study centers around a database of tens of thousands of slave names that I have compiled from archives across the American South. -
Sandro Sharashenidze
Ph.D. Student in Political Science, admitted Autumn 2024
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2026BioSandro is a graduate student in political science who is interested in the intersection between international security, macroeconomics, and formal theory. Before joining Stanford, Sandro worked as a trading analyst and managed an education-focused NGO in Tbilisi, Georgia. He has a bachelor's in economics and a master's in international relations from the University of Chicago.
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Jie Shen 沈劼
Ph.D. Student in East Asian Languages and Cultures, admitted Autumn 2021
BioJie Shen 沈劼 is a Ph.D. student in Chinese Archaeology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She mainly focuses on the crafting technology of organic materials in ancient China. Using the use-wear analysis, residue analysis, and experimental archaeology, Jie explores the crafting techniques and functions of osseous objects involved in hunting, fishing, fiber production, and hideworking. She also explores how different categories of craft production shaped prehistoric social lives and the progress of human intelligence. Also, she is interested in the religious and political meaning of animal-related artifacts through conducting comparative studies of East Asian oracle bones and the transmission of belief system.
Personal website: https://archaeojieshen.com/
