Stanford University
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David Timothy Bates
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
BioDavid T. Bates is currently a PhD candidate in the History of Education program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on the institutional change of universities owing to the emergence of the human sciences from the Progressive Era to the Cold War. As part of this research agenda, his dissertation explores how computer science became an undergraduate major. Previously, he worked in civic education and taught in elementary schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Boston, Massachusetts. He has degrees from the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago, and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Farah Bazzi
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
BioFarah Bazzi was born in Lebanon and raised in The Netherlands. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in early modern global history at Stanford University. Farah’s work attempts to bridge both Mediterranean and Atlantic history by focusing on how objects, people, and imaginations moved between the Ottoman world, Morocco, Iberia, and the Americas during the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Furthermore, Farah’s research interests include environmental thought, race, indigeneity, cosmology, cartography, and technologies of conquest. In her dissertation, Farah looks at the expulsion of the moriscos and their presence in the Americas, Morocco, and the Ottoman Empire from a socio-environmental perspective. In addition to this, Farah is interested the construction of Al-Andalus as an aesthetically appealing, pursuable, and transplantable natural and racialized landscape in Spanish, Arabic, and Ottoman sources.
Currently, Farah is one of the project founders and managers of the ‘Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic’ project sponsored by CESTA, the History Department, and the Division of Languages and Cultures. She is also the graduate coordinator for the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS) at Stanford and the Graduate Student Counselor (director) on the board of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA). -
Daniel E. Behrendt
Master of Liberal Arts Student, admitted Autumn 2021
BioDani Essindi Behrendt is an American global executive, entrepreneur and investor in the fields of auto tech, fintech, health tech and digital media.
He is known for his role in ETRE as editorial director where he chaired the leading tech global technology editors, his re-launching of Red Herring Magazine, the bible of tech, the creation of tripJane, the first engine using AI/NLP for travel, as well as developing an AR platform for the publishing industry, and his co-founding Honda’s Silicon Valley Open Innovation Lab where he created Android Automotive Alliance and AppleCarPlay. He is currently using his skill set set at Apple.
Dani holds five patents and and has a wide range of interest, including guiding European startups to enter the US market and helping people in African developing nations reach their goals.
Dani is a trained economist with a B.S. and M.S. in econometric modeling and holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
He is currently pursuing a Masters of Liberal Arts at Stanford University. -
Isabela Beine
Ph.D. Student in Energy Science and Engineering, admitted Spring 2026
Masters Student in Energy Science and Engineering, admitted Autumn 2024BioResearching hydrogen storage in porous media. Interest in energy storage solutions for renewable energy sources.
