School of Humanities and Sciences
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Courtney MacPhee
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2020
Other Tech - Graduate, History DepartmentCurrent Role at StanfordCo-coordinator of the Religion, Politics, and Culture Workshop, sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center
Communications Coordinator of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University
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Stefania Manfio
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioI am a maritime archaeologist and current Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. I specialize in the use of 3D visualizations, based on gaming technology, as a tool for the enhancement and dissemination of maritime heritage. My research explores how the social, craft, and biographical aspects of shipbuilding and the transportation of people can help us better understand the period of slavery and the transition to indenture. Moreover, I am broadly interested in understanding how the ‘vessel,’ the ship itself, is a vehicle of culture contact and how the study of the artifacts found in the shipwreck can give us information on life at sea and the relationships on-board. For my Ph.D., I am working on materials and shipwrecks from Mauritius, serving as an ideal case for Indian Ocean labor movements.
I am also involved in developing the Marine Spatial Plan for Mauritius, developing ways to integrate maritime heritage into the Blue Economy mandate and contribute to resilience in Small Island Developing States.
I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice. During my training in marine and underwater archaeology, I had the opportunity to participate in numerous underwater excavations in Veneto, Sicily, Puglia, Calabria, and Croatia. -
Alessandra Rister Portinari Maranca
Master of Arts Student in Sociology, admitted Spring 2022
BioResearch Assistant in the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Rosenberg Lab member, Stanford Women in Mathematics Mentoring board and member of Data and Mapping for Society. International student from Brazil, class of 2024.
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Federico Marciano
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI am a graduate student in economics at Stanford. Prior to joining Stanford, I worked as a Research Professional at Chicago Booth and I earned an MSc in Economics from Tor Vergata University. My research interests are related to asset pricing and macro-finance.
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Brendan Patrick Marsh
Ph.D. Student in Applied Physics, admitted Autumn 2018
BioBrendan Marsh is a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Benjamin Lev’s research group at Stanford University. He investigates light-matter interactions in many-body quantum systems and explores their use as a computational resource. His work more generally includes experimental quantum optics and theoretical methods to describe open quantum systems. He received a master’s degree in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge in 2018 and a B.S. in physics and mathematics from the University of Missouri in 2017.
Besides quantum optics and computation, Brendan has worked on problems in the philosophy of quantum theory (with Jeremy Butterfield at the University of Cambridge) and single molecule biophysics (with Gavin King at the University of Missouri). Along with Gavin King, he invented the Hessian blob algorithm, a general-purpose machine vision algorithm which is finding applications in fields ranging from scanning probe microscopy to medical imaging. -
Fernando Martinez Periset
Ph.D. Student in Comparative Literature, admitted Autumn 2022
Research Assistant, GermanBioHello, this is Fernando. Thanks for stopping by! Before joining Stanford's department of Comparative Literature as a doctoral student in 2022, I trained as a comparatist at Durham, the Sorbonne, Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin. At Stanford, I hope to be able to work with Roland Greene, Joshua Landy, Blair Hoxby and Patricia Parker at some point in the future as I continue to make progress in the program.
In terms of research interests, the main issue I keep coming back to (which partly derives from my experiences studying in different countries) is how and why intercultural encounters function as driving forces of creative production in its different forms. With a focus on big-picture thinking and global perspectives in the study of cultural history, I see such creative practices at work in the overlaps among literature, art history and philosophy, particularly continental philosophy. More precisely, I believe I am drawn to two broad questions: how classical theories of ethics and subjectivity (like Stoicism and Epicureanism) produced changes in societal values within Early Modern culture, and how the Renaissance, in turn, shaped attitudes to selfhood in later movements, especially Romanticism. From the standpoint of transhistorical reception studies, I would like to explore the inner lives of people from the past as a way of finding questions that speak to our own present. That is why specific topics of interest include the intersections of literary forms with the history of emotions, the history of ethics, cognitive anthropology, psychology, migrations, intellectual history and religion. I like poetry (both studying it and writing it), the epic tradition as well as theatre. Beyond French, Latin, Spanish and English, I am expanding into Portuguese and Arabic.
Some of my favourite authors include figures from Classical Antiquity and Early Modernity, such as Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Racine, Seneca, Lucretius, Virgil, Homer, Quevedo, but also more recent figures whose work intervenes in and develops preexisting structures of ethics and emotions such as Byron, Coleridge, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Camus, Sartre, Maryse Condé, Juan Rulfo, García Márquez... I look forward to discovering new, exciting figures.
I would be delighted to hear from students and researchers (from Stanford and beyond!) with whom I could share intellectual interests, so please feel free to drop me a line. -
Shaili Mathur
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI'm a PhD student in the Eco/Evo track in the Biology department at Stanford. I was at UCLA as an undergraduate, where I majored in Computational and Systems Biology and minored in Mathematics, and also completed my MS in Bioinformatics with Prof. Van Savage through the Departmental Scholar Program. I am interested in using theory and experimental techniques to understand evolutionary dynamics, information processing in biological systems, and complexity in biological systems.
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Tamar Matiashvili
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI am a PhD student at the Stanford University Economics Department, interested in economic history and public health.
Previously, I was a research assistant to Professors Heidi Williams and Daniel Fetter at the NBER (through MIT and SIEPR).
I come from Tbilisi, Georgia and completed my BA in economics and psychology at Middlebury College, Vermont. -
Richard McGrail
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2010
AI GRA, Arts IntensiveCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsEthnographic research describes the daily lives of children in California's foster care system who live in therapeutic residential group homes. Research questions how relationships of trust and attachement are formed between children and their adult caregivers, as well as among the children themselves.
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Niraj Mehta
Ph.D. Student in Chemistry, admitted Autumn 2018
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPlants provide some of the most important drugs in current clinical use. It can be challenging to chemically synthesize these drugs or sustainably source them from producer plants. These issues could be alleviated if their biosynthetic genes are engineered into heterologous organisms for large-scale production. I am interested in a) understanding how plants produce these valuable drugs and b) engineering the sustainable production of these drugs into other plants for large-scale production.
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Oscar Daniel Mier
Masters Student in Symbolic Systems, admitted Autumn 2022
BioOscar Daniel Mier, a driven neuroscience professional and Master of Science candidate in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University, exemplifies unwavering dedication to neuroscience, neuroimaging, and the welfare of veterans. With a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from the University of California, Riverside, and graduate training in Neuroimaging and Informatics from the University of Southern California, Oscar's academic journey has propelled him through a multifaceted career. His experience includes working as a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Etkin Lab, the United States Marine Corps, and a Site Lead Clinical Research Coordinator at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System.
Oscar's passion for helping others shines through his work as a Mobile Training Team S.T.E.M. Fellow with the Warrior-Scholar Project, where he tutored and mentored student veterans and active service members and coordinated academic boot camps at prestigious universities. In his most recent position as a Technical Solutions Engineer at Alto Neuroscience, Oscar managed neuroimaging data and trained clinicians on clinical study paradigms. As he continues his academic journey at Stanford, Oscar brings his extensive experience, expertise, and unwavering commitment to the forefront, poised to make a lasting impact in the field of neuroscience and the lives of veterans.
