School of Humanities and Sciences
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Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Emerita
BioProfessor Yarbro-Bejarano is interested in Chicana/o cultural studies with an emphasis on gender and queer theory; race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
She is the author of Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1994), The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga (2001), and co-editor of Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (1991). She has published numerous articles on Chicana/o literature and culture. She teaches Introduction to Chicana/o Studies and a variety of undergraduate courses on literature, art, film/video, theater/performance and everyday cultural practices. Her graduate seminars include topics such as race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
Since 1994, Professor Yarbro-Bejarano has been developing "Chicana Art," a digital archive of images focusing on women artists. Professor Yarbro-Bejarano is chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program in Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. -
Ali Yaycioglu
Associate Professor of History
BioAli Yaycioglu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. His research centers on economic, political and legal institutions and practices as well as social and cultural life in southeastern Europe and the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. He also has a research agenda on how people imagined, represented and recorded property, territory, and nature in early periods. Furthermore, Yaycioglu explores how we can use digital tools to understand, visualize and conceptualize these imaginations, representations and recordings. Yaycioglu’s first book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) offers a rethinking of the Ottoman Empire within the global context of the revolutionary age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Currently Dr. Yaycioglu is working on a book project entitled The Ultimate Debt: State, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire, in which he analyzes transformations in property, finance and statehood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ali Yaycioglu is the supervisor of a digital history project, Mapping Ottoman Epirus housed in Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
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Lee Yearley
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions and Ethics
BioLee Yearley works in comparative religious ethics and poetics, focusing on materials from China and the West. He is the author of The Ideas of Newman: Christianity and Human Religiosity and Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (recently translated into Chinese), as well as numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes.
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Ludmila Yurina
Lecturer, Music
BioLudmila Yurina is a Ukrainian composer whose work spans a wide range of styles, instruments, and ensembles. She graduated from the Kyiv Music Institute as a pianist and earned her degree in composition from the Kyiv State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she also completed her postgraduate studies.From 1990 to 2025, Yurina served as Associate Professor in the Department of Composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, teaching composition, orchestration, symphonic score reading, and contemporary music. Her professional training includes workshops with distinguished European composers such as Helmuth Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm.Yurina has been a guest composer and lecturer at leading institutions worldwide, including the Rheinsberg Music Academy, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Texas Christian University, the City University of New York, and Stanford University. Her music has been performed internationally throughout Europe, North America, and beyond, in collaboration with prominent ensembles and musicians.
Her works are published by Donemus and Furore Verlag, and she is a member of professional organizations including NACUSA and ASCAP. In recognition of her contributions to contemporary music and culture, Ludmila Yurina has received numerous honors, including the Lysenko National Award, the Kosenko Award, the Lyatoshynsky National Award, and Fulbright Scholarships.
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