School of Humanities and Sciences
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Zixin Li
Ph.D. Student in Business Administration, admitted Autumn 2019
Ph.D. Minor, SociologyCurrent Research and Scholarly Interestseconomic & organizational sociology, corporate & employee activism, human & social sustainability
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Stefania Manfio
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioI am a maritime archaeologist and current Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Anthropology. I specialize in the use of 3D visualizations, based on gaming technology, as a tool for the enhancement and dissemination of maritime heritage. My research explores how the social, craft, and biographical aspects of shipbuilding and the transportation of people can help us better understand the period of slavery and the transition to indenture. Moreover, I am broadly interested in understanding how the ‘vessel,’ the ship itself, is a vehicle of culture contact and how the study of the artifacts found in the shipwreck can give us information on life at sea and the relationships on-board. For my Ph.D., I am working on materials and shipwrecks from Mauritius, serving as an ideal case for Indian Ocean labor movements.
I am also involved in developing the Marine Spatial Plan for Mauritius, developing ways to integrate maritime heritage into the Blue Economy mandate and contribute to resilience in Small Island Developing States.
I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice. During my training in marine and underwater archaeology, I had the opportunity to participate in numerous underwater excavations in Veneto, Sicily, Puglia, Calabria, and Croatia. -
Federico Marciano
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI am a graduate student in economics at Stanford. Prior to joining Stanford, I worked as a Research Professional at Chicago Booth and I earned an MSc in Economics from Tor Vergata University. My research interests are related to asset pricing and macro-finance.
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Tamar Matiashvili
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Winter 2024BioI am a PhD student at the Stanford University Economics Department, interested in economic history and public health.
Previously, I was a research assistant to Professors Heidi Williams and Daniel Fetter at the NBER (through MIT and SIEPR).
I come from Tbilisi, Georgia and completed my BA in economics and psychology at Middlebury College, Vermont. -
Kristin McFadden
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
BioKristin McFadden is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford and a JD Candidate at the University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law. Her research broadly focuses on the socio-legal mechanisms of dispossession and disenfranchisement in the American South. Her dissertation investigates the risk of Black land dispossession in the South Carolina Low Country with particular attention to heirs property as a multifaceted legal and political category. Kristin received her B.A. in Anthropology and African American Studies from Emory University, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, and received her M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford. Kristin has previously worked as a political organizer in rural regions of South Carolina and research analyst with the South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs.
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Richard McGrail
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2010
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEthnographic research describes the daily lives of children in California's foster care system who live in therapeutic residential group homes. Research questions how relationships of trust and attachement are formed between children and their adult caregivers, as well as among the children themselves.
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Tom Nachtigal
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Master of Arts Student in Political Science, admitted Spring 2024BioTom Nachtigal is a PhD student in the international and comparative education program. She's interested in researching how international organizations influence national civic education policies via promotion of social and emotional learning. Particularly, she's looking at how values of democracy, rule of law, human rights, and national identity are imbued in conflict-affected areas, in light of international education policies informed by SEL. Trained as an international lawyer, she served as a legal advisor in the Israeli government, practicing international law and human rights, an experience that informed her interests in civic education from the lens of international politics.
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Shikha Nehra
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
BioShikha Nehra is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Stanford University. She is conducting dissertation research on the emerging idioms and forms of political belonging in India's north-eastern state of Assam. Her ethnographic and archival research in Assam explores questions of political membership through its sociocultural terrain, tracing the contribution of different ethnic and literary associations in claiming recognition as indigenous communities through complex registers of language, identity and belonging. Her broader fields of interest include nationalism, populism, state and sovereignty, bureaucracy, citizenship, subjectivity, and identity-formation.
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Sarah Novicoff
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Spring 2024
Course Asst-Student, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
Other Tech - Graduate, Loeb ProgramBioSarah Novicoff is a PhD student in Educational Policy at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. Previously, Sarah was a 6th grade Social Studies teacher in South Los Angeles. Sarah also served as Chair of the School Site Advisory Council, managing a team of teachers, school staff, and parents who reviewed and approved the school budget. In her doctoral education, she is interested in working on issues of equitable school finance and how changes to funding have affected vulnerable subgroups of K-12 students (e.g., low-income students, English Language Learners, students with disabilities, students in foster care). Prior to teaching, Sarah worked as a Research Assistant for the Brown University Department of Education in Providence, R.I., and as a Research Intern at the Brookings Institute Center on Education Policy in Washington, D.C. Sarah holds a B.A. in History with Honors from Brown University where she graduated magna cum laude.
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Alison Ong
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2020
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2022BioAlison Ong is a PhD student in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program for Environment and Resources. Prior to graduate school, she worked at Energy and Environmental Economics Inc. (E3) in San Francisco and most recently was a Fulbright Scholar in Melbourne, Australia. At Stanford, Alison plans to focus her doctoral research on the distributional effects of energy policy through both an economic and regulatory lens.
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Kate Petrova
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2021
BioKate Petrova is a third-year PhD student at the Stanford Psychophysiology Laboratory. In her research, Kate uses the tools of computational affective science to better understand how people use affect as a source of information in decision-making. Her other interests include applying computational modeling to formalize existing theories of emotion generation and regulation, as well as using a combination of behavioral experiments and intensive longitudinal methods to study interpersonal emotion regulation, Kate earned her A.B. in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College and spent several years working on the Harvard Study of Adult Development before joining SPL.
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Alexander Pumerantz
Ph.D. Student in Political Science, admitted Autumn 2023
BioUnited States Air Force Captain with over 7 years of experience supervising, mentoring, and motivating team members in the diverse work environment of defense acquisitions. Specializes in coordinating with higher levels of leadership in joint and coalition environments and leading teams of government and contractor engineers in the test and evaluation of system level designs. Utilizes cross-cultural competency skills to maintain professionalism and harmony across mission partners and in the workplace.
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Mary Reader
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI am a PhD student in Economics at Stanford and a Visiting Fellow at STICERD at the London School of Economics. My research interests lie in public, health and labor economics, with a particular focus on inequality.
Prior to joining Stanford, I worked as a Pre-Doctoral Research Assistant at the LSE's Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy. I completed a Master of Public Administration at the LSE (Distinction) and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford (First-Class).
You can find out more about my latest research on my website: maryreader.com -
Elliott Reichardt
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI research the social production of optimism in global health projects through analyzing how the past is transformed into an actionable present.
