School of Humanities and Sciences
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Elizabeth Sáenz-Ackermann
Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies
Current Role at StanfordElizabeth provides administrative leadership for the Center. She oversees Center programming, administering various fellowship and grant programs and visiting professorships, including a U.S. Department of Education National Resource Center grant, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships, and the Tinker Visiting Professorship. She directs undergraduate and graduate degree programs, manages the Center’s budget, fundraising, and outreach, and supervises the administrative staff. She supports and advises the Director in developing and setting program priorities, in policy and decision making, in liaising with other units on campus, and in representing the Center on and off campus. She serves as an academic advisor for LAS degree candidates and co-teaches the LAS graduate writing seminar.
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Kyoko Sato
Academic Prog Prof 1, Science, Technology and Society
BioKyoko Sato is Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Stanford University. Her research examines technoscientific governance in Japan and the United States. She is currently co-editing a collective volume (with Soraya Boudia and Bernadette Bensaude Vincent), Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima, an interdisciplinary post-Fukushima reflection on the development of the global nuclear order. She has conducted fieldwork in various areas affected by nuclear technology (e.g., Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki; communities surrounding TMI, Hanford site, and other facilities; Church Rock) to examine the dynamics and relationships among global and national nuclear governance, expertise, and democratic citizenship. She is part of Comparative Covid Response, an on-going study on the pandemic response of 16 countries (led by Steve Hilgartner and Sheila Jasanoff). Her previous work examined interdisciplinary knowledge production in the United States and the politics of genetically modified food in France, Japan, and the United States. She has published in journals such as Science, Technology and Human Values; East Asian Science, Technology and Society; Theory and Society; and 科学技術社会論研究 (Journal of Science and Technology Studies; in Japanese) and book chapters on the Fukushima disaster both in English and in Japanese. She worked as a journalist in Tokyo before pursuing her PhD in sociology from Princeton University.
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Elena Vlahu Scott
Academic - Staff Hourly, Language Ctr
BioBorn and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece but the Bay Area is my home for many years. UC Berkeley BA in Classical Languages, University College London, MSc. in Social Anthropology.
Research on "Agia Kore: The Modern Demeter and Persephone", a story of a small church in Mount Olympus that resembles its story with Demeter and Persephone. MSc. Thesis and Fieldwork on Muslim minority population in Northern Greece. -
Haein Shim
Research Asst - Ug, Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Ida Fellow, Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioHaein Shim is a passionate women's rights activist, documentary producer, and freelance journalist who is deeply committed to women's rights issues. She served as an executive board member (communications) for the National Women's Political Caucus San Gabriel Valley from 2023 to 2024.
She has worked with numerous international media outlets, including TIME, The Economist, NPR, and Vice, in publishing more than 50 articles worldwide. Leading global news platforms, such as Al Jazeera English and CNN, have interviewed Shim regarding women's rights issues in South Korea. She is currently working as a documentary producer with an award-winning production team from Austria, focusing on global femicide in 12 different countries. She is also a researcher for an upcoming book being written by the BBC's first Gender and Identity Correspondent.
Her feminist artwork "I'm not a doll, I'm a person" was displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2024, and now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.
She was awarded the Women's March Foundation's Woman of the Year Award in 2024 for her resilience and dedication to women's rights issues.
Shim graduated summa cum laude from Pasadena City College in 2023 and is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she was awarded a 2024-2025 fellowship by the Institute for Diversity in the Arts as a filmmaker. Her current documentary project, We The People (2025), focuses on the lives of first-generation, low-income students' lives at Stanford.
She is also working as an Undergraduate Researcher at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford. -
Francis Smith
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Language Ctr
BioFrank Smith has studied Khmer language since 1987 and has been teaching it since 1990. He also teaches Khmer language at the University of California, Berkeley, since 2008.
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Eva Soos Szoke
Academic Staff, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordLecturer in Hungarian, Special Language Program
