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Angana Chatterji
Research Fellow, Center For Human Rights And International Justice Stanfor, Tech Support
BioAngana P. Chatterji is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice Stanford University. Chatterji is the Founding Chair, Initiative on Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights at the Center for Race and Gender, and Research Anthropologist, at the University of California, Berkeley. Chatterji’s work since 1989 has been rooted in local knowledge, witness to post/colonial, decolonial conditions of grief, dispossession, agency, and affective solidarity. A cultural anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar of South Asia, she is also affiliated with the Institute for South Asia Studies and is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights at University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Global Fellow at the Center for Law and Transformation, Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen; and a Distinguished Fellow, Rafto Foundation for Human Rights, in Bergen, Norway. Her foundational investigations with colleagues in Indian-administered Kashmir includes inquiry into unknown, unmarked and mass graves. Chatterji’s recent scholarship focuses on political conflict and coloniality in Kashmir; prejudicial citizenship in India; and violence as agentized by Hindu nationalism. Her research also engages questions of memory and belonging, and legacies of conflict across South Asia. Chatterji has served on human rights commissions and offered expert testimony to Indian Commissions of Inquiry, United Nations, European Parliament, United Kingdom Parliament, and United States Congress, and has been variously awarded for her work, including with a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition in 2020. Her sole and co-authored publications include: Breaking Worlds: Religion, Law, and Nationalism in Majoritarian India; Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India; Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal; Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present; Kashmir: The Case for Freedom; Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present; Narratives from Orissa; and reports: Access to Justice for Women: India’s Response to Sexual Violence in Conflict and Social Upheaval; BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked and Mass Graves in Kashmir.
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Elisa Leiva Anderson
Video Editor, Stanford Historical Society
Staff, Tech SupportBioElisa is a filmmaker from Santiago, Chile. She is the editor of Towards the Sun, Far from the Center (Berlinale, 2024), the producer and editor of Ripear un Desierto (Nemaf Korea, 2023), and the director of VIEWS (FicValdivia, 2015). She works with archival footage and digital technologies to reflect on displacement, image-making, and the multi-stranded connections—both personal and political—between Chile and the United States.
Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival (NYFF), Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), FIDOCS (Santiago International Film Festival), among others, and have been awarded by the Human Rights Institute of Chile.
In addition to her filmmaking, she has taught short film distribution at the Universidad Católica de Chile, served as Head of International Relations at CinemaChile for five years, and curated short film programs at the Uppsala Film Festival (Sweden) and the Matta Cultural Center (Argentina). -
Elizabeth Ryan
Affiliate, Tech Support
BioElizabeth Ryan is a Book Conservator at Stanford University Libraries. As part of the Conservation Services Department her work involves physical conservation of Stanford Special Collections materials. Professional interests include primary source literacy, binders waste and conservation of early printed books. Elizabeth is an AIC Professional Associate and serves on the board of the American Bookbinders Museum. She holds an MLIS from the State University of New York at Albany and completed a Library Preservation Fellowship at New York University.
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Tetiana Sotnik
Library Asst, Earth Sciences Library
Staff, Tech SupportBioTetiana Sotnik is a library assistant at Branner Earth Sciences Library. She has a Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences, focusing on creativity in informal and formal settings, and 15+ years of experience teaching creativity and related subjects to elementary school teachers.
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Kristen Valenti-McKeen
Exhibits Librarian, Humanities Resource Group
Staff, Tech SupportBioKristen Valenti-McKeen is the Exhibitions & Engagement Librarian for the Silicon Valley Archives (SVA) at Stanford University Libraries and is responsible for the Hohbach Hall Exhibitions Program. The SVA is a unit of the History of Science & Technology Collections in the Humanities and Area Studies Resource Group. She designs, develops, and produces visitor-centered exhibitions and programs that create opportunities for object-based learning and foster discussion.
Kristen earned an MA in Museum Education from Tufts University, as well as a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Stockton University.
