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Ala Ebtekar
Lecturer, Art & Art History
BioAla Ebtekar is a visual artist whose work encompasses painting, drawing, alternative photographic processes, installation, and ceramic. His practice explores the intersections of light, time, history, and the cosmos, often bringing distant temporalities into the present and considering the ways we look at the universe—and how it gazes back at us.
His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections including the British Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, de Young museum, Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco International Airport, and Devi Art Foundation, among others.
Ebtekar is the founder and director of Art, Social Space and Public Discourse, a Stanford-based initiative he established in 2016 that investigates the shifting meanings of public space through art, conversation, cultural production, and intellectual exchange.
He has taught at Stanford University since 2009 in the Department of Art & Art History. Over the years, he has also lectured and taught in Comparative Literature, ITALIC, the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, and Stanford Global Studies. -
Penelope Eckert
Albert Ray Lang Professor, Emerita
BioThe goal of my research is to understand the social meaning of linguistic variation. In order to do this, I pursue my sociolinguistic work in the context of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, focusing on the relation between variation, linguistic style, social identity and social practice.
Gender has been the big misunderstood in studies of sociolinguistic variation - in spite of the fact that some of the most exciting intellectual developments over the past decades have been in theories of gender and sexuality ... so I have been spending a good deal of time working on language and gender as well.
Since adolescents and preadolescents are the movers and shakers in linguistic change, I concentrate on this age group, and much of my research takes place in schools. The institutional research site has made me think a good deal about learning and education, but particularly about the construction of adolescence in American society. -
Dan Edelstein
William H. Bonsall Professor of French, Professor, by courtesy, of History and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy current research lies mostly in the history of political thought, and more broadly on the history of Western culture.
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Paul N. Edwards
BioI retired in January 2026 to escape rising fascism in the USA. Until then, I was Director of the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. I also co-directed the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative with Prof. Steve Luby.
I'm also Professor of Information and History (Emeritus) at the University of Michigan, where I worked for 19 years in the School of Information, the Dept. of History, and the STS Program. I taught previously at Stanford from 1992-1998, in the STS Program and the Computer Science Dept.
I study the history, politics, and culture of information infrastructures, especially climate knowledge systems. My books include A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (MIT Press, 2010), The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America (MIT Press, 1996), and Changing the Atmosphere: Expert Knowledge and Environmental Governance (MIT Press, 2001, co-edited with Clark Miller). With Janet Vertesi (Princeton), I'm academic editor of the MIT Press book series Infrastructures.
I served as one of 234 Lead Authors for the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group I (Physical Sciences), released in August 2021. -
Bradley Efron
Max H. Stein Professor and Professor of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch Interests:
BOOTSTRAP
BIOSTATISTICS
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Ronald Egan
Stanford W. Ascherman, M.D. Professor
BioResearch Areas:
- Chinese Poetry
- Song dynasty Poetry and literati Culture
- The social and historical context of Song dynasty aesthetics -
Linda Eggert
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNormative ethics, practical ethics; theories of justice; ethics of war, defensive harming; human rights; AI ethics
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Karen Eggleston
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Health Policy
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHealth reform in China; comparative healthcare systems in Asia; government and market roles in the health sector; payment incentives; healthcare productivity; and economic implications of demographic change.
