Stanford University
Showing 1,601-1,700 of 5,063 Results
-
Elizabeth Finlayson Harris
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
Other Tech - Graduate, GSE Centers and ProgramsBioElizabeth Finlayson Harris is a PhD student in Curriculum and Teacher Education at Stanford University, specializing in science, engineering, and technology education with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research examines epistemology, affect, and feminist perspectives in science education, with particular attention to pre-service teacher learning. She has published in Science Education, Emotion, Space and Society, and Studying Teacher Education, and her current projects explore humor, laughter, and epistemic affect in science classrooms. A former high school physics teacher and instructional designer, Liz brings a commitment to equity, joy, and critical inquiry in both her teaching and scholarship.
-
Mia A. Harris
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2026
BioMia A. Harris is a PhD student in Higher Education at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and is originally from Houston, Texas. She earned her bachelor's degree in English and Africana Studies from Tulane University and a master's degree with distinction in African Studies from the University of Oxford.
Mia is the managing editor of the Journal of Black Language and Culture at Cambridge University Press, and the one of the youngest managing editors in the university's history. She is a Graduate Fellow for Stanford’s Ujamaa House, afro-diasporic theme residential community where she supports teaching of EDUC 150: Ujamaa House Seminar. Mia's research examines inequity in higher education, with a particular focus on how selective and elite universities support, retain, and educate Black students. She’s presented her research across the country at the national conferences like the Linguistic Society of America, National Council for Black Studies, and American Education Research Conference. -
Areeq Hasan
Ph.D. Student in Applied Physics, admitted Autumn 2024
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsInterested in the fundamental physics of strongly-correlated quantum many-body systems and creating new ways to control their dynamics. Intending to use the experimental platform of ultracold atoms to explore how nature invokes entanglement in the physics of many-body systems and build new ways to control the coherent quantum dynamics of strongly-correlated systems towards the end of quantum information processing.
-
Rhana Hashemi
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2022
BioRhana Hashemi is a Ph.D. student in Social Psychology conducting social-belonging and stereotype threat research with Dr. Greg Walton. She is focused on improving the lives of students who use drugs by understanding and repairing the relationship they form with their schools and authority figures. Rhana hopes to design interventions that promote connection and reduce bias, as alternatives to school suspension. She holds a M.S in Community Health Prevention Research from Stanford School of Medicine and a B.A in Social Welfare with honors from UC Berkeley. Previous research has focused on cognitive dissonance theory, prevention messaging, social media, and adolescent substance use.
-
Karolina Hasiec
Masters Student in Bioengineering, admitted Autumn 2025
BioKarolina’s research at King’s College London focused on neuroimaging and on how analytical methods can be tailored to the unique characteristics of different imaging tools. At Stanford, she is supporting research that investigates whether myelin plasticity can serve as a tractable therapeutic target to slow the progression of SYNGAP1-related intellectual disability - a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe, intractable epilepsy, significant cognitive impairment, and recognized as one of the leading genetic causes of autism. Through this work, she contributes to advancing understanding of how maladaptive myelination may underlie disease progression and to exploring new strategies for therapeutic intervention.
-
Alisa Hathaway
Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2022
Current Research and Scholarly Interestsflexible electronics; neuroscience, medical devices
-
Eric He
Masters Student in Computer Science, admitted Autumn 2023
BioI'm a Computer Science student exploring the intersection between deep learning and embedded systems. I'm a full stack developer with a wide skillset and I'm passionate about integrating machine learning into real-world applications.
My website:
https://eric8he.github.io/ -
Rachael Healy
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2021
AY27 GSO rep, AnthropologyCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch interests: youth, working-class life, colonialism, urban landscapes, intergenerational trauma, (contentious) commemoration, collective memory, time and space/place-making, narrative and storytelling, borderlands, post-conflict space, Northern Ireland/Ireland, political identity, precarity, hope(lessness).
Broadly, my PhD research focuses on youth culture and teenage life in post-conflict Belfast. I am interested in discourses of intergenerational trauma and community spaces and how these are seen as points of relation in a larger communal making-sense of a growing youth mental health crisis in a West Belfast neighbourhood. My research contributed to new understandings about how vernaculars of political violence shift according to new and ever-expanding pressures and priorities in community life and cultural cultivation.
Prior to joining Stanford, I received a first-class honors degree in Global Health and Social Medicine from King’s College London. I also received a Master of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from the Graduate Institute Geneva. Before attending university, I worked for four years in various health advocacy and youth work roles, including in South Africa and Scotland. -
Derric I. Heck
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on educational equity, emphasizing the lived experiences of educators, identity development, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. I employ narrative and qualitative methodologies to explore how race and education intersect, centering marginalized youth and communities. My work also examines the interplay between school-community partnerships, teacher agency, and disciplinary practices, contributing to a broader understanding of belonging, wellness, and justice in education.
-
Alexandrea R. Henry
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioAlexandrea Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education programs. They earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Alexandrea’s research draws on Black studies, Critical Pedagogy, and studies of Carceral Logics in education to examine how young people make sense of power through disciplinary practices at school. Moreover, she is interested in centering the experiences and expertise of K-2 students in the fight for liberatory learning spaces. While at Stanford, Alexandrea has worked on the Accessible Ethnic Studies, Newberry Institute, and Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education projects. She has also taught in San Bruno Jail and served as a Systems Navigator with the Santa Clara Public Defender's Office. Previously, they were a public school teacher and union organizer in North Philadelphia, a preschool teacher in Oakland, and has worked on district-level projects related to equity and professional development. Ultimately, she believes in advocating for and co-creating worlds where every person is free, from the River to the Sea.
-
Rachel Herring
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2024
Graduate Wellness and Engagement Coordinator, Dean for Community Engagement and DiversityBioRachel Herring (Choctaw Nation) investigates how to disrupt extractive capitalism and neoliberal sustainability strategies through decolonial approaches to energy. She employs ethnographic methods to investigate how energy infrastructures reflect and reproduce systems of power, and how infrastructure may instead serve as a tool of self-determination. Previously, she has recommended policy alternatives for domestic mining with the Department of Energy’s Indian Energy Program, and has explored impacts of critical mineral extraction on Native land as a Kathryn Wasserman Davis Conflict Transformation Fellow. As a Fulbright Fellow and National Geographic Explorer, Rachel explored the intersection between the clean energy transition and the depopulation crisis in rural Japan. She was named a Next Generation Photographer by the 2024 Japan Photo Award in Kyoto, and her work has appeared in the New York Times. She holds an MA in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute, and a BA from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
-
Susannah Herz
Ph.D. Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, admitted Autumn 2023
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in investigating the impacts of ocean anoxia through the end Permian mass extinction. My work utilizes a variety of isotope geochemistry techniques, including investigations of the sulfur, calcium, and thallium systems through both modeling and lab-based approaches.
-
Mathis Heyer
Ph.D. Student in Energy Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024
BioMathis Heyer, from Kiel, Germany, is pursuing a Ph.D. in Energy Science & Engineering at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Process Systems Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, as well as a master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing.
His research in the Environmental Assessment and Optimization Group at Stanford (https://eao.stanford.edu/) focuses on advancing the understanding of complex energy and process systems through mathematical modeling and optimization. Mathis' work builds on his previous research experiences at the Climate Policy Lab at ETH Zurich and the Sustainable Reaction Engineering Group at Cambridge University. Outside of his academic pursuits, Mathis enjoys volunteering with organizations such as "Engineers Without Borders" and "Europe Meets School" both involved in promoting intercultural exchange.
Mathis has been recognized as a Klaus-Murmann Fellow by the Foundation of German Business (sdw) while at RWTH Aachen and is currently an ERP Fellow with the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a recipient of the SGF Fellowship. -
Kent Hippler
Ph.D. Student in Management Science and Engineering, admitted Summer 2025
BioKent Hippler is a PhD student in the Decision and Risk Analysis (DARA) Group in Stanford's Department of Management Science and Engineering, advised by Dr. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell. His current research focuses on risk attitudes in AI Decision Support Systems.
Prior to pursuing his PhD, Kent served as a Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy, supporting three western Pacific deployments aboard the USS Anchorage and USS Theodore Roosevelt. He later worked as a Systems Engineer at Maxar Technologies and a Software Engineer at Amazon. Kent holds a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Florida (2016) and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford (2025), where he worked with the Language Data and Reasoning Lab under the advisement of Dr. Amin Saberi. -
Julia Hirsch
Ph.D. Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2021
Master of Arts Student in Religious Studies, admitted Autumn 2025BioJulia Hirsch is a Ph.D. student in the Religious Studies Department at Stanford University, where she focuses on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. She holds a B.A. from Boston College in Philosophy with minors in Psychoanalytics and Women’s & Gender Studies (2015). She received her M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology: Religious Arts of Asia from SOAS University of London (2020).
Julia’s current research explores Buddhist material religion and visual culture, power objects, and ritual from an art-historical perspective. Of particular interest are relic cults, funerary rites, and the importance—and soteriological potential—of sensory encounter in South Asian and Himalayan traditions.
Prior to joining Stanford, Julia worked for several years at Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, where she continues to serve as a contributing editor covering Buddhist art, film, and publishing. -
Frances Hisgen
Juris Doctor Student, Law
BioFrances Hisgen is a current JD candidate at Stanford Law. She was previously the senior research program manager for the program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution, where she also serves as key personnel for the National Science Foundation’s SECURE program, a $67 million effort authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 to enhance the security and integrity of the US research enterprise. Prior to joining Hoover, she worked at the American Chamber of Commerce (Hong Kong), at Caixin (Beijing), and at ChinaFile at the Asia Society's Center for US-China Relations. Hisgen earned an MPhil in World History at the University of Cambridge (UK), where she was the Paul Williams Fellow at Emmanuel College, and received her AB in History from Harvard College. Her academic work on the movement of people, ideas, and commodities spurred by European and American imperialism in greater China in the 18th through 20th centuries has been presented at the Cambridge World History Workshop, the Women's History Network Conference, and been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In addition to her work at Hoover, she is a Foreign Policy for America Next Generation Fellow in the 2024 cohort, as well as a 2024 New Voice in New America's Out in National Security initiative.
