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Andrew Bauer
Associate Professor of Anthropology
BioAndrew Bauer is an anthropological archaeologist whose research and teaching interests broadly focus on the archaeology of human-environment relations, including the socio-politics of land use and both symbolic and material aspects of producing spaces, places, and landscapes. Andrew's primary research is based in South India, where he co-directs fieldwork investigating the relationships between landscape history, cultural practices, and institutionalized forms of social inequalities and difference during the region’s Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic, and Medieval periods. As an extension of his archaeological work he is also interested in the intersections of landscape histories and modern framings of nature that relate to conservation politics and climate change.
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Farah Bazzi
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
BioFarah Bazzi was born in Lebanon and raised in The Netherlands. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history at Stanford University. Farah’s work attempts to bridge both Mediterranean and Atlantic history by focusing on how objects, people, and imaginations moved between the Ottoman world, Morocco, Iberia, and the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Furthermore, Farah’s research interests include environmental thought, race, indigeneity, cosmology, cartography, and technologies of conquest. In her dissertation, Farah looks at the expulsion of the moriscos and their presence in the Americas, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire from a socio-environmental perspective. In addition to this, Farah is interested the construction of Al-Andalus as an aesthetically appealing, pursuable, and transplantable natural and racialized landscape in Spanish, Arabic, and Ottoman sources.
Currently, Farah is one of the project founders and managers of the ‘Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic’ project sponsored by CESTA, the History Department, and the Division of Languages and Cultures. She is also the graduate coordinator for the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) at Stanford and the Graduate Student Counselor (director) on the board of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). -
Georgina Beaty
Lecturer
BioGeorgina is the author of the short story collection The Party is Here (Freehand Books, 2021). Her fiction has appeared in New England Review, The Walrus, The New Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, PRISM and elsewhere. As an actor and playwright, she’s worked with theatres across Canada and internationally. A 2020-2022 Stegner Fellow in fiction, she holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia, has been supported by fiction residencies at MacDowell, Jentel and The Banff Centre, and was a screenwriting resident at the Canadian Film Centre. She's currently a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
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Rodrigo Bello Carvalho
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI am a field biologist deeply passionate about wildlife ecology and conservation. Holding a Master's degree in Biodiversity Conservation and Management from the University of Oxford (2021), I graduated with honors in Biological Sciences - B.Sc. (2017) and B.Ed. (2018) - from the University of Brasília (UnB).
My passion for wildlife ecology began during my time at the UnB Ecosystem Ecology Lab (2014-2018) under Prof. Mercedes Bustamante, focusing on Cerrado ecosystem ecology. Following this, I worked at the Brasília Zoological Garden Foundation (2018) before teaching Science and Biology in Brasília (2019).
At Oxford's Ecosystems Lab (2020-2021), I researched seed dispersal and defaunation in the Cerrado with Dr. Imma Oliveras and Prof. Yadvinder Malhi for my Master's dissertation. My commitment to conservation led me to the 'Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation' (ICMBio) (2022-2023), where I served as an Environmental Analyst in the Western Brazilian Amazon.
Currently, I am a Biology PhD student in the Dirzo lab at Stanford University, where I investigate animal-ecosystem/ plant-frugivore interactions between Brazilian and African savannahs. I also collaborate at UNESP's Bird Ecology Lab, exploring frugivory and seed dispersal in the Atlantic Forest.
My academic pursuits are deeply rooted in the ecology and conservation of large-bodied vertebrates and plant communities within tropical ecosystems. I am particularly fascinated by their intricate ecological interactions, such as frugivory, seed dispersal, and herbivory, as well as the pressing challenges posed by defaunation and deforestation.