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Monica Carvalho Gimenes
Lecturer
BioMônica Carvalho Gimenes is a Lecturer in Portuguese at the Stanford Language Center. With over 10 years of experience in language and literature instruction, she integrates her expertise in Brazilian and broader Latin American literatures into her teaching practice. In the Portuguese-language classroom, she fosters collaborative spaces for cultural and linguistic exploration.
She is currently working on her first book, Writing Life: Creating Resistance to Feminicidal Violence in Latin America. The book examines how 21st-century Latin American writers and artists respond to ongoing violence against women. Drawing on decolonial feminist theories, she treats feminicide as a complex concept that encompasses different forms of violence affecting women and reveals how gender operates in Latin America. Her analysis focuses on novels, short stories, and other creative works that humanize women targeted by violence and create space for mourning and resistance. These works mobilize imagination, defamiliarizing readers from dominant narratives that make such violence seem ordinary or inevitable.
Before joining Stanford University, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University. She earned her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2024 and is a double alumna of Florida Atlantic University (M.A. '15, B.A. '13). Her pedagogical excellence was recognized in 2021 with UC Berkeley's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. -
Marina Del Cassio
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2022
Workshop Coordinator, History DepartmentBioMarina Del Cassio is a Ph.D. student in the Stanford Department of History and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is currently working on a legal and cultural history of wildfire and land burning in long-nineteenth-century California. Her interests more broadly lie in American legal history, indigenous history, environmental history, and history of capitalism. Before coming to Stanford, she represented tribes and municipalities in environmental law matters and clerked at the Ninth Circuit and the California Supreme Court.
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Terry Castle
Walter A. Haas Professor of the Humanities, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCompleting introductory essay for my book on the "Not-A-Woman"
Editing classic 1950s lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, by Patricia Highsmith -
Sasa Caval
Administrative Assistant, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences
Staff,BioDr Saša Čaval is an archaeologist whose research explores how landscapes, memory, and material culture shape communities across time. She leads the ERC project STONE, examining the origins and meanings of the medieval stećci tombstones of the Western Balkans. Her work integrates archaeology, geoarchaeology, and digital heritage technologies to study long-term human–environment relationships.
At Stanford, Dr Čaval is affiliated with the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Institute for Research in Social Sciences. She also works with the Mauritian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage project group, connecting archaeology with post-colonial histories and community-based conservation. She also contributes to GeoAI, Slovenia’s national research programme applying artificial intelligence to cultural-heritage risk modelling.
A Marie Skłodowska-Curie alumna (University of Reading, UK) and active member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (Coordinator for the West Coast), she promotes inclusive, ethically grounded research that links local communities, digital innovation, and global heritage stewardship. -
Carlos Centeno Lairet
Affiliate, Ethics In Society
BioCarlos is a 2026 Ethics & Tech Practitioner Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. He co-founded SOMOS Civic Lab. At the lab, the team is researching and designing tools to democratize generative AI in Global Majority countries. Somos is part of the UNDP AI Trust & Safety Programme, and it's supported by the Pulitzer Center's AI Accountability program. As MIT Emerging Talent Director, he equips learners from migrant and refugee communities with computer science skills. He co-founded and directed MIT's Governance Innovation Initiative, as Associate Director of Innovation; co-designed and launched MIT's first Governance Innovation Research Fellowship, and hosted MIT's "Power to the Who" governance innovation podcast. He was previously at the UN for 10 years, where he worked in community and government preparedness to natural disasters based in Latin America, Asia and Africa. His AI (NLP) prototype ALIA was a Google launchpad finalist in Munich (2018). He has supported investigative journalism projects at Pro Publica on disappearances and detentions by the US federal government.
