Stanford University
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Adam Banks
Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of African and African American Studies
BioCommitted teacher. Midnight Believer. A Slow Jam in a Hip Hop world. Cerebral and silly, outgoing and a homebody. Vernacular and grounded but academic and idealistic too. Convinced that Donny Hathaway is the most compelling artist of the entire soul and funk era, and that we still don't give Patrice Rushen enough love. I'm a crate digger, and DJ with words and ideas, and I believe that the people, voices and communities we bring with us to Stanford are every bit as important as those with which we engage here at Stanford.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I come to Stanford from the University of Kentucky, where I served on the faculty of the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies and prior to that, from Syracuse University, as a member of the faculty of the Writing Program. In addition to these appointments I served as the Langston Hughes Visiting Professor of English at the University of Kansas and, jointly with Andrea Lunsford, as the Rocky Gooch Visiting Professor for the Bread Loaf School of English.
My scholarship lies at the intersections of writing, rhetoric and technology issues; my specialized interests include African American rhetoric, community literacy, digital rhetorics and digital humanities. My most recent book is titled Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age, and my current digital/book project is titled Technologizing Funk/Funkin Technology: Critical Digital Literacies and the Trope of the Talking Book. -
Ralph Banks
The Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Professor, by courtesy, of Education and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
BioRalph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87) is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor, by courtesy, at the School of Education. A native of Cleveland, Ohio and a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School (JD 1994), Banks has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1998. Prior to joining the law school, he practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers, was the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge, the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. (then of the Southern District of New York). Professor Banks teaches and writes about family law, employment discrimination law and race and the law. He is the author of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. At Stanford, he is affiliated with the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and the Ethnicity, the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. His writings have appeared in a wide range of popular and scholarly publications, including the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He has been interviewed and quoted by numerous print and broadcast media, including ABC News/Nightline, National Public Radio, The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among others.
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Brigid Barron
Margaret Jacks Professor of Education
On Partial Leave from 04/01/2026 To 06/30/2026Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent projects include the longitudinal documentation of learner pathways to engagement, studies of families as technology-supported learning teams, and the roles that personal learning networks play in catalyzing and sustaining interest-driven learning She is founder of the YouthLAB at Stanford, and a co-lead of TELOS, a Stanford Graduate School of Education Initiative to investigate how technologies can provide more equitable access to learning opportunities.
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Samantha Basch
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioSamantha Basch is a Jim Joseph Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research examines the cultural practices caregivers enact to promote young children’s learning. She is particularly interested in how communities support children's participation in recurring routines and rituals, including religious rituals. Samantha earned her PhD in Developmental Psychology from UC Santa Cruz in 2025.
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Beth Bass
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2024
Research Assistant, GSE Centers and ProgramsBioBeth Bass is a doctoral student in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education. Beth is from Dallas, Texas, and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, Human Rights, and Political Science from Southern Methodist University, as well as a Master’s in Sociology of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Beth's work as a youth worker, track coach, and Black studies teacher informs their research on race, space, and histories of Black education.
Beth’s research focuses on Black parent activism, school choice, and history of Black education in Texas. Their work employs oral history methodology, critical race theory, and Black geographies to examine Black schooling contexts.
Beth’s scholarship is supported by the EDGE: Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellowship through the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. -
David Timothy Bates
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2022
Master of Arts Student in Sociology, admitted Autumn 2025BioDavid 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.
