School of Humanities and Sciences
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Matthew Kohrman
Associate Professor of Anthropology, and by courtesy, of Medicine (Stanford Prevention and Research Center) and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
BioMatthew Kohrman’s research and writing bring anthropological methods to bear on the ways health, culture, and politics are interrelated. Focusing on the People's Republic of China, he engages various intellectual terrains such as governmentality, gender theory, political economy, critical science studies, narrativity, and embodiment. His first monograph, Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China, raises questions about how embodied aspects of human existence, such as our gender, such as our ability to propel ourselves through space as walkers, cyclists and workers, become founts for the building of new state apparatuses of social provision, in particular, disability-advocacy organizations. Over the last decade, Prof. Kohrman has been involved in research aimed at analyzing and intervening in the biopolitics of cigarette smoking among Chinese citizens. This work, as seen in his recently edited volume--Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives--expands upon heuristic themes of his earlier disability research and engages in novel ways techniques of public health, political philosophy, and spatial history. More recently, he has begun projects linking ongoing interests at the intersection of phenomenology and political economy with questions regarding environmental attunement and the arts.
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Michal Kosinski
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Graduate School of Business
BioPlease visit: http://www.michalkosinski.com/
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William Koski
The Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education and Professor (Teaching), by courtesy, of Education
BioAn accomplished clinical teacher and litigator, William Koski (PhD ’03) is the founder and director of the law school’s Youth and Education Law Project (YELP). He has also taught multidisciplinary graduate seminars and courses in educational law and policy.
Professor Koski and YELP have represented hundreds of children, youth, and families in special education, student discipline, and other educational rights matters. Professor Koski has also served as lead counsel or co-counsel in several path-breaking complex school reform litigations including Robles-Wong v. California, that sought to reform the public school finance system in the state; Emma C. v. Eastin, that has restructured the special education service delivery system in a Bay Area school district and aims to reform the California Department of Education’s special education monitoring system; Smith v. Berkeley Unified School District, that successfully reformed the school discipline policies in Berkeley, CA; and Stephen C. v. Bureau of Indian Education, that seeks to hold the federal Bureau of Indian Education accountable for their failure to provide children in the Havasupai Native American tribe in Arizona with an adequate and equitable education.
Reflecting his multidisciplinary background as a lawyer and social scientist, Professor Koski’s scholarly work focuses on the related issues of educational accountability, equity and adequacy; the politics of educational policy reform; teacher employment policies; and judicial decision-making in educational policy reform litigation.
Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2001, Professor Koski was a lecturer in law at Stanford and a supervising attorney at the law school’s East Palo Alto Community Law Project. He was also an associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and then Alden, Aronovsky & Sax.
Professor Koski has an appointment (by courtesy) with the Stanford School of Education. -
Vignesh Kumar
Undergraduate, Human Biology
BioVignesh is an undergraduate senior studying Human Biology (BA) with a concentration in "Designing for Ethical, Behavioral, and Social Approaches to Health." He has broad interests spanning design-thinking, healthcare ethics, behavior change, social connection, and community-based participatory research. He believes that all of these perspectives are essential in making the world a healthier and happier place for all of us.
He has seen it firsthand as a research assistant for the Our Voice Initiative (Citizen Science for Health Equity, under Dr. Abby King), where he has supported community-driven projects around California, the U.S., and the world. He has co-facilitated community-engagement modules with groups including elementary school students, university students, and low-income families to address pressing health equity areas such as walkability, physical activity, nutrition, and sustainability. He has further explored these interests as a research assistant at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE) under Dr. Nicole Martinez-Martin and Dr. Nate Olson and the Behavior Design Lab under Dr. BJ Fogg.
Vignesh has a deep passion for teaching and facilitation, particularly through his roles as an "RA" (Residential Assistant) at his original freshman dorm, a Co-Lead Instructor for "Frosh 101" (freshman mentorship course), co-captain and production lead of his competitive dance team, and counselor for Camp Kesem. Through these roles, he has learned about the power of listening, empathizing, and connection as forms of healing for individuals and communities.
As a way of being, Vignesh enjoys meditating and engaging in heartfulness---a blend of mindfulness, compassion, and responsibility. He is practicing this as a Heartfulness Fellow under Dr. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, as well as by being a loving older brother to his two younger sisters. -
Marci Kwon
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
BioMarci Kwon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Stanford University, and co-director of the Cantor Art Center's Asian American Art Initiative. She is the author of Enchantments: Joseph Cornell and American Modernism (Princeton, 2021), and co-editor of the online Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné. She is the recipient of Stanford’s Asian American Teaching Prize, CCSRE Teaching Prize, Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Award, and the Women's Faculty Forum Inspiring Early Career Academic Award, and the Mellon Foundation Emerging Faculty Leader award.
