School of Humanities and Sciences
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Karen Ajluni
Director of Finance & Operations, Philosophy
BioKaren Ajluni is the Director of Finance and Operations in the Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies within the School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) at Stanford University. Previously, Karen worked for six years as the Finance Manager in the Physics Department, also within H&S. Before coming to Stanford, Karen worked for four years at Santa Clara University, most recently as Assistant Dean of Administration and Finance in the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Prior to that she was the Operations and Administration Manager of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Karen has been employed in non-profit and educational administration for over 25 years, and has experience with a wide variety of organizations, including Downtown College Prep High School, the Girl Scouts of Northern California, EHC Lifebuilders, Futures without Violence, and Project Match. She received a B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University and a Masters in Public Administration from San Jose State University. Karen lives at home with her husband and three children.
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Sinead Brennan-McMahon
Ph.D. Student in Classics, admitted Autumn 2019
Research Assistant, ClassicsBioSinead Brennan-McMahon joined the Stanford Classics department in 2019.
Sinead comes from Auckland, New Zealand, where she received her M.A.. Her thesis examined the reception of Martial’s sexually obscene homosexual epigrams in school texts and commentaries. Using a comprehensive statistical analysis, she argued that Victorian editors of Martial’s Epigrams expurgated the text to remove references to material they found offensive and to curate a culturally appropriate view of the ancient world for their schoolboy readers.
Her current research focuses on developing software tools to make Latin textual criticism more efficient and accessible. She is also interested in the Digital Humanities more widely, Martial, obscenity, and Reception Studies. -
Hongchan Choi
Adjunct Lecturer, Music
BioHongchan Choi is a musician, an engineer, and a creator. With the deepest passion on the web technology, his mission is to make the web better for music making.
Hongchan studied with Jonathan Berger, Ge Wang and Chris Chafe for the doctoral research at CCRMA between 2010 and 2014. After finishing his thesis "Collaborative Musicking on the Web" in 2014, he joined Google Chrome team to continue to work on the web music technology. Hongchan is leading the web music effort in the Google Chrome team and also serving as a W3C specification editor for Web Audio API.
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Maritza Colon
Academic Operations Mgr 2, English
BioMaritza has many years of higher education administrative experience, including serving as the Department Administrator for the History Department at Columbia University and the Executive Director for the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia. Prior to Columbia, she worked at New York University for 10 years. Maritza relocated to the Bay Area in 2017 with her family and made quick connections with Stanford. She joined Stanford’s Center for Latin American Studies as Interim Program Coordinator until joining the English Department in 2018.
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Kai Dowding
Undergraduate Student Services Officer, History Department
BioAs the undergraduate student services officer for the Department of History, I oversee student degree progress in the major and minor and work closely with the director of undergraduate studies, director of honors and research, and our intrepid peer advisors to plan and carry out undergraduate programming. I also schedule the department’s curriculum in collaboration with the vice chair. I enjoy getting to know each student as they journey through the major or minor, and am always happy to chat with students about their interests and plans, both within Stanford and beyond.
