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Serena Shah
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2021
Other Tech - Graduate, History Department
SHI Discussion Leader, Stanford Pre-Collegiate StudiesBioSerena is a PhD candidate in History in the United States field. She is in her third year and she works on the history of ideas in the nineteenth century: particularly, how Americans thought about the ancient past as they entered modernity. The focus of her dissertation is "Civilizational Collapse in American Life and Thought," centering on the period after the Civil War and at the start of the Progressive Era. She is also currently writing a research article on Greek and Roman slave-naming practices and the classicism of American slavery.