School of Humanities and Sciences
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Bruce Cain
Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, at SIEPR, at the Precourt Institute for Energy & Professor of Environmental Social Sciences
BioBruce E. Cain is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He received a BA from Bowdoin College (1970), a B Phil. from Oxford University (1972) as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Ph D from Harvard University (1976). He taught at Caltech (1976-89) and UC Berkeley (1989-2012) before coming to Stanford. Professor Cain was Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley from 1990-2007 and Executive Director of the UC Washington Center from 2005-2012. He was elected the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000 and has won awards for his research (Richard F. Fenno Prize, 1988), teaching (Caltech 1988 and UC Berkeley 2003) and public service (Zale Award for Outstanding Achievement in Policy Research and Public Service, 2000). His areas of expertise include political regulation, applied democratic theory, representation and state politics. Some of Professor Cain’s most recent publications include “Malleable Constitutions: Reflections on State Constitutional Design,” coauthored with Roger Noll in University of Texas Law Review, volume 2, 2009; “More or Less: Searching for Regulatory Balance,” in Race, Reform and the Political Process, edited by Heather Gerken, Guy Charles and Michael Kang, CUP, 2011; “Redistricting Commissions: A Better Political Buffer?” in The Yale Law Journal, volume 121, 2012; and Democracy More or Less (CUP, 2015). He is currently working on problems of environmental governance.
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Hector Miguel Callejas
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHector is an interdisciplinary scholar of colonialism, Indigeneity, and the environment, with a focus on social movements in the Americas. He uses ethnography, archival research, and theory to examine the production and governance of Indigenous identities and environments, and their intersections with colonial power relations, in modern societies. His community-engaged research covers ethnic studies, anthropology, environmental studies, and area studies.
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Tamoa Calzadilla
Graduate, Communication
BioTamoa Calzadilla is a John S. Knight Journalism fellow 2024-2025 at Stanford University. Journalist of the Year John S. Carroll - News Literacy Project, 2024. Editor in Chief at Factchequeado, a collaborative initiative to fight misinformation and disinformation in Latino and Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. She manages partnerships and collaborative projects with 100 news organizations. She’s the former director of Univision’s elDetector, the first Spanish-language fact-checking platform in the United States. Calzadilla was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for FinCEN Files, an International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and BuzzFeed News collaborative investigation that revealed the role of some of the world’s biggest banks in money laundering. She also worked on the Panama Papers project. In 2022, Forbes.es included Calzadilla on a list of the 100 most creative people in the business world. As a 2024 RJI Fellow at the University of Missouri, she developed a bilingual guide for journalists covering Latino and Spanish-speaking communities.
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Brandice Canes-Wrone
Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Economics at the Graduate School of Business
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCanes-Wrone, Brandice, Jonathan T. Rothwell, and Christos Makridis. "Partisanship and Policy on an Emerging Issue: Mass and Elite Responses to COVID-19 as the Pandemic Evolved."
Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Christian Ponce de Leon, and Sebastian Thieme. "Investment, Electoral Cycles, and Institutional Constraints in Developing Democracies."
Barber, Michael J., Brandice Canes-Wrone, Joshua Clinton, and Gregory Huber. "
“How Distinct are Campaign Donors’ Preferences? A Comparison of Donors to the Affluent and General US Populations.” (in progress)
Barber, Michael J., and Brandice Canes-Wrone. "Validity of Self-Reported Donating Behavior." (in progress)
Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Christian Ponce de Leon, and Sebastian Thieme. "Institutional Constraints of the European Union and Opportunistic Business Cycles." (in progress)
Canes-Wrone, Brandice, Tom S. Clark, Amy Semet, and Sebastian Thieme. “Campaign Contributions and Judicial Independence in the US State Supreme Courts.” (in progress) -
Nick Lee Cao
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2020
BioPhD student in economics, originally from Sydney, Australia. Previously at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Interested in macroeconomics, including housing, firm dynamics, financial-cycle driven business cycles, and economic growth.
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David Cardinal
Affiliate, Psychology
BioDavid is a Lecturer at Stanford University, co-teaching Psychology 221, Image Systems Engineering and Psychology 204A, .Human Neuroimaging Methods. He is also a co-contributor to Stanford's ISET imaging toolbox, leading the effort to extend it in areas including machine learning and computational photography.
David has held various development and management positions at Sun Microsystems, including directing their efforts in AI and digital imaging. He was also the founding CEO and CTO of First Floor Software, which later became Calico Commerce.
Complementing his teaching role, David is a also a technologist, tech journalist and professional photographer two decades of experience as a digital travel and nature photographer. David co-wrote one of the first image management solutions for digital photographers -- DigitalPro for Windows. His articles have appeared in dozens of magazines including many in PCMag, Dr. Dobbs, Photoshop User, and Outdoor Photographer. His photo awards include First Place in the National Wildlife Federation contest, and Finalist in the BBC / NHM Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
David holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, where he received the Joseph Clifton Elgin award.
Website: http://www.cardinalphoto.com
Facebook: http://facebook.com/CardinalPhoto
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David Carson
Graduate, Communication
BioDavid Carson is a John S. Knight (JSK) Journalism Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. He's interested in examining the impacts of AI-generated images on photojournalism and what can be done to build public trust in news photos. He is on leave from his position as a staff photojournalist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he has worked for more than two decades. During his career, he's covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, two World Series, a Superbowl, U.S. Presidential and Vice Presidential debates and 9/11 on the ground in New York City during the early hours and days that followed the attacks.
Carson's work was featured extensively in the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, awarded to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch photo staff "For powerful images of the despair and anger in Ferguson, MO, stunning photojournalism that served the community while informing the country." He also was a member of the newspaper’s staff that was a 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of a mass-shooting during a Kirkwood, Mo. city council meeting.
Previously Carson worked at the Naples Daily News in Florida, The Providence Journal-Bulletin in Rhode Island, and as a freelance photographer in New England where he worked for The New York Times, USA Today and the Associated Press, among others. He's is also an avid Boston sports fan and still enjoys playing soccer.
A portfolio of his work can be seen at www.davidcarsonphotos.com and he is still active on Twitter @pdpj
