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Zhenchao Hu
Ph.D. Student in Communication, admitted Autumn 2023
Stanford Studetn Emplyee, Political ScienceCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsZhenchao is broadly interested in (intensive) longitudinal methods, social media uses and effects, interpersonal relationships, children and adolescents, identity development, sexuality, and well-being.
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Javier Mejia
Postdoc Res Affiliate, Political Science
BioJavier Mejia is an economist whose work focuses on the intersection between social networks and economic history. His interests extend to topics on entrepreneurship and political economy with a geographical specialty in Latin America and the Middle East. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Los Andes University. He has been a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at New York University--Abu Dhabi and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Bordeaux.
Most of Javier’s research explores how social interactions have shaped the economy in the long term. He brings together theoretical and empirical methods from economics and conceptual tools from anthropology to the study of history. This has led him to explore an extensive set of historical objects. He has studied entrepreneurs in Colombia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, industrial elites in Morocco in the late 20th century, tribal societies in North Africa in the 19th century, early Muslim communities in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula between the 7th and 9th centuries, and political elites in Colombia and the US in the early 19th century.
Javier has teaching experience in multicultural environments, having taught at universities in Latin America, the United States, and the Middle East. He has taught courses on economic growth, economic history, and economic theory. At Stanford, he offers two courses that jointly provide an overview of economic evolution from a global-history and moral-philosophy perspective. On the one hand, Wealth of Nations studies the origins of economic development, the moral dilemmas underneath the development process, and the path that led to the configuration of the modern global economy. On the other hand, Societal Collapse studies the causes of economic decline, the social and political consequences of that decline, and the path that led to the disappearance of some of the most prosperous societies in human history.
Javier is a regular contributor to different news outlets. Currently, he is a Forbes Magazine op-ed columnist. -
Mandla T. Msipa
Admit Weekend Coordinator, Political Science
Admit Weekend Coordinator, UGA
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioMandla Msipa (he/him) is an undergraduate at Stanford University pursuing a BA in Political Science with a minor in Education.
A Zimbabwean-American, Mandla spent 13 years in Harare under the SJET school system – he attained IGCSE and A Level qualifications from Cambridge International. After graduating in 2021, Mandla worked as a Junior Master at St John's College, Harare, primarily teaching in the History, English, and Drama departments.
At Stanford, Mandla is an International Mentor at Bechtel and a member of Stanford College Democrats, one of Stanford's political action organisations. In the summer of 2023, Mandla will be working in the DC office of a Democratic US Senator as a legislative intern.
Mandla's research interests lie at the intersection of politics, education, and the internet. Areas of interest are currently: strengthening governance structures in K-12 education; encouraging teacher-student relationships at the system level; promoting digital literacy in classrooms; investigating internet exposure in the early crystallisation of political ideology; scrutinising ICT as a tool for democratisation in Sub-Saharan Africa.
