School of Humanities and Sciences
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Ariel Yingqi Tang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioAriel Yingqi Tang's research is broadly concerned with the interactions between culture and nature in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. Her ongoing projects investigate the realization of nature by means of culture via education, the limits of culture’s claim over nature, as well as the dichotomy between the two categories.
Ariel’s dissertation-based book manuscript, “Bildung and the Anthropological Foundation of Politics”, reconstructs the entangled history of the Enlightenment and the idea of Bildung, the foundational principle of the modern research university. Tracing the genealogies of key notions underlying modern educational institutions, including aesthetic education, academic freedom, and the global curriculum in the European context and beyond, the book seeks to resuscitate the humanistic strand of Enlightenment political thought and prompts us to reconsider the promise of liberal education in modern academies.
Besides research, Ariel is committed to translation both as a scholarly activity and a vehicle for self-understanding. Her book-length translation has appeared with the Commercial Press in Shanghai. She also maintains research and teaching interests in the history of knowledge, philosophy and literature, and environmental humanities. -
Tammy Tran
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioTammy earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University. Her research focuses on examining the neural mechanisms underlying memory encoding in young adults and how these processes may change in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Tammy’s work leverages virtual navigation to explore how memory and spatial navigation are intertwined.
As part of the Stanford Aging and Memory study, she investigates how structural changes are related to biofluid and imaging biomarkers of disease. Tammy is funded by both an NIA F32 and an Alzheimer’s Association Research Fellowship to promote Diversity. -
Boya Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioBoya Wang is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, specializing in the field of early childhood development. Her research is dedicated to identifying and implementing effective programs and policies aimed at enhancing the well-being of children in rural China. With a wealth of field experience, she has a keen interest in promoting early human capital formation. Through large-scale randomized controlled trials, she evaluates the profound impact of parenting interventions on enhancing parenting practices, improving caregiver mental health, and fostering early childhood development.
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Chagai Weiss
Postdoctoral Scholar, Sociology
BioChagai M. Weiss is a postdoctoral fellow at the Conflict and Polarization Lab at Stanford University. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2022 after spending two years as a Middle East Initiative predoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Chagai's core interest is in examining how institutions and the people within them shape intergroup relations in divided societies. He is also working on several projects examining the effects of scalable interventions for prejudice reduction, the electoral effects of conflict, the institutional origins of partisan polarization, and experimental methods. His research has been published or is forthcoming in Cambridge University Press, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals.
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Eleanor Wiseman
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioPersonal website: www.eleanorwiseman.com
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Yuyin Xiao
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioYuyin Xiao is the postdoctoral researcher of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She received her MS and PhD from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her research focuses almost exclusively on low- and middle-income countries and is concerned with: health policy, including health equity, supply, demand and utilization of health service programs, and research on health service systems; health technology and innovation, including digital health, development of digital health tools, and evaluation of the effectiveness of digital interventions. Yuyin’s papers have been published in leading academic journals, including British Medical Journal, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, BMC Public Health and others.
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Chunchen Xu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioI am currently a postdoc researcher at the Psychology Department at Stanford University. I study culture and the self in the context of AI-based smart technological developments. The first line of my work focuses on understanding and critiquing extant technological systems from a cultural perspective. I unpack cultural assumptions underlying conceptions of smart technology and examine technology's social and psychological impact. The second line of my work seeks to untether the self from extant mainstream meaning systems and open the space of the imaginary. I explore how historically marginalized cultural worldviews offer clues for diversifying conceptions of smart technology towards building a more equitable society and a caring ecology.
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Rebecca Zhu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow in developmental psychology at Stanford University, working with Michael C. Frank. Previously, I was a PhD candidate and postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Alison Gopnik, and a lab manager at Harvard University, working with Susan Carey.
My research investigates when and how children acquire, and consequently learn from, symbolic systems such as language and pictures. In one line of research, I investigate the mechanisms underlying children’s acquisition of various kinds of non-literal language, such as metaphor and metonymy, as well as how children’s non-literal language comprehension may further guide their thinking and reasoning. In another line of research, I work with urban and rural Kenyan children to investigate the efficacy of picture-based learning materials and the validity of picture-based assessments across cultures and contexts. My work in Kenya is conducted in close collaboration with researchers and non-profit organizations in Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi.
This research program is innovative and interdisciplinary: these findings not only address fundamental debates in psychology, philosophy, and linguistics (i.e., by providing empirical insight into the mechanisms underlying children’s ability to acquire and learn from symbolic systems), but also have direct implications for applied research in education, public health, and developmental economics (i.e., by improving the learning materials and assessment tools used in global early childhood development programs).
