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Jiajing Wang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
BioJiajing Wang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford Archaeology Center. She is a prehistoric archaeologist whose research interests include the origins of agriculture, the rise of sociopolitical inequalities, and ancient alcohol production. She studies these topics through residue, use-wear, and lithic analyses. Her recent project examines the transition from hunter-gatherer to rice agricultural societies during the early Holocene period in the Lower Yangtze Valley of China.
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Luke Waring
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, East Asian Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEarly Chinese (13th century BCE–3rd century CE) literature and cultural history, with a particular focus on manuscripts, epigraphy, material culture, poetry, and aesthetics.
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Jamele Christa Watkins
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, German StudiesBioJamele Watkins researches and teaches on issues of race and gender in contemporary German performance, film, and literature (broadly speaking). She is currently working on a book project that focuses on Black internationalism and the solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the GDR. She completed her doctoral studies in German at UMass Amherst with the completion of dissertation, “The Drama of Race.” She has also studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
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Brendan Joseph McKinney Weaver
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
BioI am an archaeologist and historical anthropologist focusing on labor, slavery, and the African diaspora of the Andes. I earned my Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 2015. Prior to coming to the Stanford Archaeology Center as a Postdoc in the fall of 2018, I was the Mellon Institute Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Anthropology at Berea College (Kentucky, 2016-2018), and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast (Northern Ireland, 2015-2016).
My current research explores through material culture the daily lived experience of agroindustrial workers and residents, the vast majority of whom were both enslaved and of Sub-Saharan African origin, on wine and brandy producing estates owned by the Society of Jesus on the Peruvian coast in the 17th and 18th centuries. I direct the Haciendas of Nasca Archaeological Project (PAHN), centered on Nasca’s Ingenio Valley, which is the first to archaeologically study the African diaspora in what is today the Republic of Peru. By following daily praxis in both productive and domestic contexts, my research asserts that enslaved Afro-Andean laborers engaged with the oppressive structures of hacienda life, but developed strategies and found discreet and material ways of self-expression in response to hegemonic structures. -
Andrew Womack
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Archaeology
BioAndrew Womack is currently a postdoctoral scholar in Chinese Archaeology at the Stanford Archaeology Center. His research focuses on using geophysical survey, excavation, and ceramic analysis to explore craft production, identity, and interaction in late Neolithic and early Bronze Age northwestern China. He is Associate Director of the Tao River Archaeology Project and the creator and editor of the China Ceramic Petrography Database.
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Paul Wright
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics
BioI am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University, and a Mentor at the NASA Frontier Development Lab.
Prior to coming to Stanford, I completed my PhD at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of Dr Iain G. Hannah. My PhD research concentrated on one of the unsolved problems in Heliophysics—the coronal heating problem. During my PhD I gained expertise in numerous time-series analysis techniques and methods for recovering the differential emission measure (an ill-posed inverse problem) from a wide range of spectroscopic and narrowband data. I am a member of the NuSTAR heliophysics working group and I led the analysis of the first solar flare observed by the NuSTAR hard X-ray astrophysics imaging spectrometer. I have also developed a stellar flare detection algorithm based on the observations obtained by the Kepler space telescope to determine the superflare rate of the Sun. -
Shicong Xie
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe coordination between cell growth and cell cycle in vivo.
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Hao Xue
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Political Science
BioAs a health and development economist, Hao Xue has studied the implementation of school-based health and nutrition programs, the interventions to improve early childhood health and development, and the measurement and interventions to improve the quality of primary care in China. Most recently, Hao's research focuses on designing and evaluating innovative approaches to improve health services in China. He has taught classes of impact evaluation and Health Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from a joint program of the Northwest University in China and Stanford University.
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Wenzhe Yang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Physics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in the mysterious connections between physics and number theory, e.g. the applications of string theory to the studies of the arithmetic geometry of Calabi-Yau threefolds, and vice versa. My current researches focus on the interesting connections between mirror symmetry and mixed motives.
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Bin Zhao
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biology
Biogenome engineering
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Wenjuan Zheng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sociology
BioWenjuan is a postdoctoral scholar with the Civic Life of Cities Lab and China Program. Zheng holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center. She earned a BSc degree in Environmental Science and City Studies from the University of Toronto in Canada and an MA degree in sociology from Columbia University. She is broadly interested in organizations, migration, social movements, and political sociology. Her dissertation, titled “Caught between the State, the Market, and Civil Society: The Divergent Paths of Chinese NGOs Seeking to Make Social Change in China,” examines how local institutional environments constrains and liberates the organizations’ strategic choices (such as decentralization versus centralization) in anticipating and responding to external crises, using ethnography and comparative case studies of nonprofit incubators in two cities of China. She is also one of the recipients of the China India Scholar-Leaders Initiative (CISLI) Fellowship. Her recent publications include “Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China: Wukan and Beyond” (co-authored with Yao Lu and Wei Huang in The China Quarterly, 2017).
