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Jisha Menon
Associate Professor of Theater and Performance Studies
BioJisha Menon teaches courses at the intersection of postcolonial theory and performance studies. She received her M.A. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and her Ph.D in Drama from Stanford University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of law and performance; race and the carceral state; affect theory, cities, and capitalism; gender and sexuality; cosmopolitanism and nationalism. She is the author of The Performance of Nationalism: India, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP, 2013), which considers the affective and performative dimensions of nation-making. The book recuperates the idea of "mimesis" to think about political history and the crisis of its aesthetic representation, while also paying attention to the mimetic relationality that undergirds the encounter between India and Pakistan. Her second book, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in the Indian City (Northwestern UP, 2021) considers the city and the self as aesthetic projects that are renovated in the wake of neoliberal economic reforms in India. Sketching out scenes of urban aspiration and its dark underbelly, the book delineates the creative and destructive potential of India’s lurch into contemporary capitalism. She is also co-editor of two volumes: Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (with Patrick Anderson) (Palgrave-Macmillan Press, 2009) and Performing the Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (with Milija Gluhovic) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.) She has published essays on the Indian partition, diasporic feminist theatre, political violence and performance, transnational queer theory, and neoliberal urbanism. She previously served as Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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Vinod Menon
Rachael L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEXPERIMENTAL, CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
Cognitive neuroscience; Systems neuroscience; Cognitive development; Psychiatric neuroscience; Functional brain imaging; Dynamical basis of brain function; Nonlinear dynamics of neural systems. -
Christina Mesa
Academic Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Advising Director;
Lecturer, American Studies -
Melissa Mesinas
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2015
Ph.D. Minor, Psychology
SU Student - Summer, GSE Dean's Office OperationsBioMelissa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education in the Developmental and Psychological Sciences (DAPS) program. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Hispanic Studies from Scripps College in 2012. After receiving her undergraduate degree, Melissa worked for her alma mater in the Offices of Admissions and Student Affairs as she led the First-Generation at Scripps program. She then went on to Puno, Peru on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship where she conducted research focused on the educational experiences of Aymara and Quechua communities. Additionally, Melissa has conducted cross-cultural research on Indigenous Mexican communities living in the United States. During this time, Melissa realized her passion lay in community-based outreach and research. Her research interests center on the cultural practices immigrant communities maintain throughout generations and specifically examines its impact on learning, development, and well-being of youth. She is a recipient of the Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Doctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
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Jordana Meyer
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2017
BioMy research focuses on understanding how ecological networks are rewiring in the Anthropocene. Starting local at the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, I have been exploring noninvasive DNA metabarcoding methods to capture the biodiversity of the area, identifying key species, and construct an ecological network (food web) to reveal patterns of trophic interactions and community structure, allowing for predictive impacts of shifting community dynamics. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, I scaled this model to study how the hybridization of one of the largest ecosystem engineers, the Savanna - Forest elephant, is impacting the ecological network through assessing diet and habitat use, the health of individuals (microbiome, parasites & stress), and the ecological structure of Garamba National Park. Hybridization can result in novel ecological interactions, which in turn can trigger a cascade of processes with ecological and evolutionary outcomes. I am working in collaboration with African Parks, an NGO working in protected areas across the African continent, to address these questions. My long-term research goals focus on improving rewilding efforts and landscape-scale ecosystem services by applying conservation genomic techniques and network theory.
Before joining the Hadly Lab, I worked as a behavioral endocrinologist focusing on the reproductive success and management of the African elephant and the black rhino. I co-founded Wildtrax Explorations, a suite of programs offering educational and volunteer opportunities in Africa to help train the next generation of conservationists. -
Richard Meyer
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History
BioAreas of Specialization:
20th-century American art and visual culture -
Debra Meyerson
Adjunct Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsIn addition to continued work on scaling in charter schools, prompted by her stroke in 2010, Debra is now initiating research into the experience of stroke survivors in the rehabilitation process. Specifically, she plans to explore the impact of gender and socioeconomic background on the rehabilitation process and the impact of the process on a survivor's sense of identity. To do so she plans conduct qualitative interviews with survivors, professional caregivers -- physical, occupational and speech therapists -- and caregiving family and friends.
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Bella Meyn
Undergraduate, Public Policy
BioI was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil but moved to the United States at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. I attended Emma Willard School in upstate NY until my sophomore year, then moved to Lake Oswego, Oregon with my family where I remained until graduating.
I worked at the Translational Neuroeconomics Laboratory of the Oregon Health Sciences University during the summers of 2018 and 2019 studying choice behavior in animal models. I also served as the Business Lead and Project Manager of FIRST Tech Challenge team 9907 DON'T PANIC and Always Carry A Towel while working weekends at my local Trader Joe's.
During my freshman year, I was a Research Assistant at the Stanford Neurodevelopment, Affect, and Psychopathology Laboratory, where I assisted in research focusing on mood disorders. I also conducted a data-analysis project on survey methods for the Political Psychology Research Group. I worked at the Stanford Ticket Office and Stanford Events as a sales and customer service representative for on-campus events, leading administrative and marketing projects.
In summer 2020, I am again working at the Political Psychology Research Group under funding from the Public Policy department where I have assisted in the analysis for a multi-lab project exploring the efficacy of replication. Currently, and I am a data analyst and data processor for climate-change specific public opinion research.
Alongside fellow Stanford peers, I also helped launch Tree Tutors LLC, a remote tutoring company where clients around the country are matched with high-achieving Stanford tutors. I preside over media & client relations as the Director of Community Outreach. -
Alice Miano
Lecturer
BioDr. Alice (Ali) Miano teaches Spanish at all levels from a social justice standpoint. She likewise incorporates and studies the effects of community-engaged language learning (CELL), both in her classes and in the Spanish-speaking communities in which she and her students interact. Dr. Miano's work examines reciprocal gains as well as challenges in CELL, and likewise interrogates traditional notions of "service" and “help” while underscoring the community cultural wealth, resistance, and resilience (Yosso, 2005) found in under-resourced communities and communities of color. Dr. Miano and her second-year students of Spanish have teamed up regularly on joint art projects with a local chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula and currently collaborate with the Mountain View Dayworker Center. Each winter, many of her third-year students embark upon a digital storytelling project with Stanford workers.
Additionally, Dr. Miano's ethnographic research has examined the literate practices and parental school efforts of Mexican immigrant mothers in the Silicon Valley, finding that regardless of the mothers' (in)access to formal education, they supported their children's schooling in a variety of ways, many of which go unrecognized by educators and the society at large.
Dr. Miano has also volunteered to assist asylum seekers through the CARA Probono Project at the South Texas Family Detention Center in Dilley, TX; Al Otro Lado in Tijuana, Mexico; the Services, Immigration Rights, and Education Network (SIREN) in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Freedom for Immigrants.
In addition, as a workshop facilitator certified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) in the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Writing Proficiency Test (WPT), Dr. Miano has been privileged to engage with language instructors at various points around the globe--including Madagascar and Timor Leste, as well as a variety of Latin American countries from Paraguay to Mexico--on behalf of both ACTFL and the U.S. Peace Corps. -
Sara Gail Michas-Martin
Lecturer
BioSara Michas-Martin is a poet and nonfiction writer who draws inspiration from science and the natural world. Specific teaching interests include contemporary American poetry, medical humanities, science communication and hybrid forms.
Her book, Gray Matter, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize and nominated for the Colorado Book Award, is a creative investigation of the relationship between the brain and one’s conscious understanding of identity and self. A current nonfiction project, titled Black Boxes, explores the biological transformation of mothers, natural history, sleep science and the evolution of technology used to see inside the body.
Sara holds a BFA in visual art from the University of Michigan and an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and has received grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, as well as fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ conferences. Her poems and essays have been published in the American Poetry Review, The Believer, Best New Poets, FIELD, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. She lives with her family east of Monterey Bay and counts deer and bobcats among her neighbors. -
Fiorenza Micheli
David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr Fiorenza Micheli is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist conducting research and teaching at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University. Micheli’s research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities and incorporating this understanding in the management and conservation of marine ecosystems. She is a Pew Fellow, a fellow of the California Academy of Science and the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, and past president of the Western Society of Naturalists.
