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Cirian Villavicencio
Affiliate, SGS Stanford Global Studies
BioDr. Cirian Villavicencio has been Professor and Co-Chair of the Department of Political Science at San Joaquin Delta College since 2012. A Stanford Global Studies EPIC Fellow (2024–2025), he focused on internationalizing the curriculum in higher education. He serves as a gubernatorial appointee and faculty representative on the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. Previously, Dr. Villavicencio worked for the California Asian American Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus and chaired the California Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs, where he advanced legislation on data disaggregation and human trafficking, and advocated for Filipino WWII veterans to receive the Congressional Gold Medal. He also led the advocacy effort to establish the AANHPI Student Achievement Program across California Community Colleges and California State Universities, supporting the unique needs of first-generation, low-income AANHPI students.
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Richard Vinograd
Christensen Professor of Asian Art
BioRichard Vinograd is the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Vinograd’s research interests include Chinese portraiture, landscape painting and cultural geography, urban cultural spaces, painting aesthetics and theory, art historiography, and inter-media studies. He is the author of Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); co-editor of New Understandings of Ming and Qing Painting (Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy Painting Publishing House, 1994); and co-author of Chinese Art & Culture (New York: Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 2001). He has published more than thirty journal articles, anthology chapters, conference papers, and catalogue essays on topics ranging from tenth-century landscape painting to contemporary transnational arts.
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Peter Vitousek
Clifford G. Morrison Professor of Population and Resource Studies and Professor of Earth System Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsVitousek's research interests include: evaluating the global cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus, and how they are altered by human activity; understanding how the interaction of land and culture contributed to the sustainability of Hawaiian (and other Pacific) agriculture and society before European contact; and working to make fertilizer applications more efficient and less environmentally damaging (especially in rapidly growing economies)
