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Lyris Wiedemann
Senior Lecturer in the Language Center
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, acquisition of cognate languages, development of cultural competence, and translation. I am one of the creators of the international symposium on Portuguese for Spanish Speakers: Acquisition and Teaching, which had its fifth edition in 2014, and an author and editor of several scholarly articles and books. My current focus is on the acquisition of Portuguese by speakers of Spanish and other Romance languages.
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Simon Wiederhold
Visiting Fellow, HOOVER RESEARCH
BioSimon Wiederhold is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024/2025 academic year. He is Professor of Labor Economics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and Senior Research Advisor at the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), where he leads the research group on Education, Skills, and the Labor Market.
Wiederhold's research focuses on labor and education economics, particularly the formation and impact of skills. He investigates the determinants of skill development, including family background, formal education, and on-the-job training, and examines the role of skills in labor market success throughout workers' careers. He also investigates how inequalities in the education system arise. Methodologically, Wiederhold emphasizes rigorous research designs using modern microeconometric methods to provide evidence-based policy recommendations.
He has published extensively in leading journals such as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the European Economic Association, and American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. His contributions to the field have been recognized with awards including the CESifo Young Affiliate Award, the ifo Research Award, and the CIDER Public Science Award. His joint work with Hoover Fellow Eric Hanushek on returns to skills worldwide has won the Best Paper Award of the European Economic Review.
Wiederhold held previous academic positions at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the ifo Institute, and spent extended research visits at Harvard University and Duke University. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Jena, where he also studied. He actively contributes to public debates on education and labor market policies, providing numerous policy reports for the European Commission and other organizations. His research has been featured in prominent media outlets, reflecting his influence on contemporary economic policy discussions. -
Carl Wieman
Cheriton Family Professor and Professor of Physics and of Education, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe Wieman group’s research generally focuses on the nature of expertise in science and engineering, particularly physics, and how that expertise is best learned, measured, and taught. This involves a range of approaches, including individual cognitive interviews, laboratory experiments, and classroom interventions with controls for comparisons. We are also looking at how different classroom practices impact the attitudes and learning of different demographic groups.
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Karen Wigen
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History
BioKären Wigen teaches Japanese history and the history of cartography at Stanford. A geographer by training, she earned her doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. Her first book, The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (1995), mapped the economic transformation of southern Nagano Prefecture during the heyday of the silk industry. Her second book, A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010), returned to the ground of that study, exploring the roles of cartography, chorography, and regionalism in the making of modern Shinano.
An abiding interest in world history led her to co-author The Myth of Continents (1997) with Martin Lewis, and to co-direct the "Oceans Connect" project at Duke University. She also introduced a forum on oceans in history for the American Historical Review and co-edited Seascapes: Maritime Histories, Littoral Cultures, and Transoceanic Exchanges (2007) with Jerry Bentley and Renate Bridenthal. Her latest project is another collaboration, Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, with co-editors Sugimoto Fumiko and Cary Karacas ( University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2016).
