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Ariel Yingqi Tang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioAriel Yingqi Tang's research is broadly concerned with the interactions between culture and nature in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. Her ongoing projects investigate the realization of nature by means of culture via education, the limits of culture’s claim over nature, as well as the dichotomy between the two categories.
Ariel’s dissertation-based book manuscript, “Bildung and the Anthropological Foundation of Politics”, reconstructs the entangled history of the Enlightenment and the idea of Bildung, the foundational principle of the modern research university. Tracing the genealogies of key notions underlying modern educational institutions, including aesthetic education, academic freedom, and the global curriculum in the European context and beyond, the book seeks to resuscitate the humanistic strand of Enlightenment political thought and prompts us to reconsider the promise of liberal education in modern academies.
Besides research, Ariel is committed to translation both as a scholarly activity and a vehicle for self-understanding. Her book-length translation has appeared with the Commercial Press in Shanghai. She also maintains research and teaching interests in the history of knowledge, philosophy and literature, and environmental humanities. -
Tammy Tran
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioTammy earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on examining the neural mechanisms underlying memory encoding in young adults and how these processes may change in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Tammy’s work leverages virtual navigation to explore how memory and spatial navigation are intertwined.
As part of the Stanford Aging and Memory study, she investigates how structural changes are related to biofluid and imaging biomarkers of disease. Tammy is funded by both an NIA F32 and an Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship to promote Diversity.
