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H Schwettman
Professor of Physics, Emeritus
BioAlan received his PhD from Rice University. He has acted as a research associate, associate professor, and professor at Stanford University. Research interests include the development of optical techniques that exploit the unique capabilities of the Free Electron Laser (FEL) in materials and biomedical research.
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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. -
Krish Seetah
Associate Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, of Oceans, of Anthropology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
BioI am a zooarchaeologist, whose focus is primarily on colonisation and colonialism. My zooarchaeological research has used butchery analysis (with the benefit of professional and ethnographic actualistic experience) to investigate agency within the human-animal relationship. More recently, I have employed geometric morphometrics (GMM) as a mechanism for identifying and distinguishing animal populations. This approach to studying colonial activity centres on understanding how people manipulate animal bodies, both during life and after death.
Alongside the strictly faunal research is a research interest in technologies associated with animal processing. This has been used to investigate issues of technology, trade and socio-economic attitudes within colonial contexts in the Mediterranean (Venice & Montenegro) and the Baltic (Poland, Latvia & Lithuania).
I am also the Director of the ‘Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage’ (MACH) project, which studies European Imperialism and colonial activity. This project centres on the movement of peoples and material cultures, specifically within the contexts of slavery and Diaspora. The work of this project has focused on key sites in Mauritius and is based on a systematic programme of excavation and environmental sampling. The underlying aims are to better understand the transition from slavery to indentured labour following abolition, the extent and diversity of trade in the region and the environmental consequences of intense, monoculture, agriculture. -
Kala Seetharam Sridhar
Affiliate, South Asian Studies
BioKala S Sridhar is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Center for South Asia (CSA) during March-August 2025. She is a professor, Centre for Research in Urban Affairs, Institute for Social and Economic Change, in Bengaluru, India. She has authored/edited books published by Routledge, Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and Sage, and papers in journals like Regional Science and Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Applied Economics, Area Development & Policy and Environment and Urbanization Asia, among others.
Kala has visited the United Nations University’s World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) multiple times as visiting scholar. Recipient of the Fulbright Nehru fellowship, she was hosted by University of California, Los Angeles, Luskin School of Public Affairs, Dept of Urban Planning, in 2021 and 2022. She was a visiting scholar at George Mason University during June-July 2023. She was an Honorary Fellow at Stanford's CSA during June-August 2024. She has done extensive research for the Asian Development Bank (ADB). She is Managing Editor of Journal of Social and Economic Development (Springer). She is on the editorial advisory board of journals like Area Development and Policy (Taylor & Francis), Urban India, and Frontiers in Built Environment-Urban Science. She is presently guiding 4 Ph.D. students on various topics including housing affordability, regional disparities in healthcare infrastructure, stringency of land use regulations and the provision of amenities in peri-urban areas. Four students have graduated with PhD under her guidance, and one is awaiting the final defense of her thesis.
Kala was empanelled to be Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Chair Professor of Indian Studies (Economics) in Foreign Universities (2015). She has won several international awards for her research on urbanization including the highly competitive Global Development Network medal for outstanding research on development, and national awards such as the VKRV Rao prize for her contribution to social sciences. She was among the top 10% of authors globally on the Social Science Research Network as of August 2024. She has a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University, and M.S. from the University of Iowa.
