School of Humanities and Sciences
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Toloo Riazi
Lecturer
BioToloo Riazi joined Stanford University as Lecturer in September 2023. She completed her doctoral degree in Latin American Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is specializing in contemporary Hispanic literature and culture. Her scholarly interests include revolutions, gender, migration, cultural and film studies.
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Daniel Rich
Lecturer
BioDan has over 30 years of public sector experience, including 27 years in local government management in the Bay Area. After working in the city manager's offices of Sunnyvale and Belmont, he was appointed City Manager of Campbell, CA in 2005. After six years there, he became City Manager of Mountain View, CA where he served until his retirement at the end of 2019. Dan helped lead Campbell through the Great Recession and in Mountain View worked on a wide range of initiatives, including a number of complex land use partnerships and award winning long range planning documents. He also worked on statewide pension reform issues and regional transportation and affordable housing issues.
Dan co-led the Public Policy Practicum in Winter 2021 and also helped develop and co-teach Urban Studies/Public Policy 163/Earth Systems 168 in Spring 2021.
Prior to retiring, Dan partnered with the Lane Center and Haas Center over the years on a number of programs and projects related to local government and served as the City Manager in Residence at Stanford in 2018. He is a Bay Area native and received a BA in Economics and Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. -
Judith Richardson
Senior Lecturer in English
BioJudith Richardson is a senior lecturer in English and program coordinator for American Studies. After receiving her PhD from Harvard University, Judith began teaching at Stanford in 2001, offering a range of courses on American literature, including classes on women writers, early American literature, autobiographies, and the literature of cities. The author of Possessions: The History and Uses of Haunting in the Hudson Valley (2003) she continues to write and lecture—at Stanford and beyond—on the history and literature of New York, and on issues of place and cultural memory more broadly. She is currently working on a book about nineteenth-century America’s “plant-mindedness,” its multivalent obsession with vegetable matters.