School of Humanities and Sciences
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Tracey Riesen
Student Services Officer, Language Ctr
BioTracey is the Student Services Officer for the Stanford Language Center. She is responsible for all undergraduate and graduate student-related activities in the Language Center; this includes language advising, certification of the Language Requirement, academic records for the 6000 students who take foreign language courses each year, language credit transfers, and administration of the Advanced Proficiency Notation. She is the primary contact person for students, as well as for language program coordinators within the Language Center. She also manages the English for Foreign Students (EFS) summer intensive English program for incoming international graduate students and visiting scholars. She greatly enjoys being of service to Stanford students and values working in such a diverse and dynamic community.
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Ramzi Salti
Advanced Lecturer, Language Ctr
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAdvanced Lecturer in Arabic at Stanford since 1999. Highly proficient in use of technology to enhance language learning. Active ACTFL Rater. Creator/Host of Arabology radio/podcast, blog and YouTube Channel. Doctorate in Comparative Literature with extensive list of publications. Radio Broadcaster with FCC clearance. Francophone Literature. Arab American Literature. Public Speaker.
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Caitlin E. Samples
Lecturer, Language Ctr
BioCaitlin E. Samples is Lecturer in Spanish at the Stanford Language Center. She holds an MA in Spanish from Baylor University and is presently ABD in Hispanic linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her work centers on second and heritage language acquisition at the interfaces among syntax, morphology, and semantics. Other interests include trends in gender-inclusive language use on social media. Samples' current projects include research on possessive structure use among second-language learners of English and heritage and second-language learners of Spanish, as well as how Peninsular Spanish Twitter users employ gender-inclusive morphemes in their posts.
Prior to arriving at Stanford's Language Center, Samples taught all levels of first- and second-year Spanish at the University of Georgia. At Stanford, she teaches first- and second-year Spanish, also. Among her teaching interests are language use in Hispanic populations, Hispanic cultural practices, and cultural products as reflections of historical events. -
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. -
Everett Randall Smith
Academic Staff - Hourly - CSL, Language Ctr
Current Role at StanfordLecturer in American Sign Language (ASL) - Part-Time
