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Rosaley Gai
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2020
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on depictions of food and eating in modern Japanese literature and media. In particular, I am interested in works that deal with an appetite for the strange and grotesque, and how such works impart the affective experience of eating and desire onto the reader.
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Melisande Genat
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2014
BioMélisande Genat is a doctoral student in History at Stanford University. Her dissertation is entitled "Tribes, State, and Ethno-religious Identities in Iraq (1918-2021). She has been living and conducting research in Iraq since 2010.
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Danielle Marie Greene
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2017
Ph.D. Minor, LinguisticsBioDanielle Greene is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE) and Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education (CTE) programs at the Graduate School of Education. From Virginia, Danielle previously taught middle school Social Studies in an urban district before coming to Stanford. Focusing on the social context of education, her research explores teaching cultures and language practices within K-12 public schools that have majority African American students, faculty, and staffs. Specifically, Danielle centers African American resistances to linguistic, cultural, and physical Black displacement and dispossession in schools and their surrounding communities. Finally, she also has the immense pleasure of serving as the Chief of Staff of the Richmond Resilience Initiative - a guaranteed income pilot serving working-class residents of Richmond, Virginia.
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Christopher Gurley
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2022
BioChristopher Spencer Gurley, Jr is a Ph.D. student in the Religious Studies Department at Stanford University, where he specializes in American Religion and is pursuing a Ph.D. minor in history. His research explores the intersection of African American history and U.S. Catholic cultural life during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is specifically interested in the religio-racial histories of U.S. Catholicism, Black identity constructions, Catholicism in the rural south, and the socio-historical politics of class and belonging regarding Black masculinity and manhood.
Before joining the Stanford community, he studied U.S. History at Georgetown University as a Patrick Healy Fellow. Chris earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Tennessee State University and his Master of Theological Studies degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School. He also holds a Master of Arts in Religion degree from Yale Divinity School, where he was chosen to become an Elie Wiesel-Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar at Oxford University.
