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Dāshaun Washington
Lecturer, English
BioDāshaun Washington is a poet from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Lighthouse Works, and Ucross Foundation. His poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, New England Review, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He lives in San Francisco.
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Thomas A Wasow
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in Philosophy and Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus and Academic Secretary to the University, Emeritus
BioTom Wasow joined the Stanford faculty as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy in 1973. He was educated at Reed College (BA in mathematics, 1967) and MIT (PhD in Linguistics, 1972). Between college and graduate school, he was a Fulbright fellow in Germany. Prior to coming to Stanford, he taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His early research was on the theory of grammar, particularly syntax. Later, he did work in psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He is a fellow of both the Linguistic Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Stanford, he received the Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education, and was named a Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
Wasow served as Dean of Undergraduate Studies from 1987 to 1991, as Associate Dean for Graduate Policy in the office of the Dean of Research (1996-2000), as Chair of the Faculty Senate (2003-2004), and, after retiring from the faculty, as Academic Secretary to the University (2017-2024). He also chaired the committee that created the Symbolic Systems Program, and chaired that program for a total of thirteen years between 1992 and 2015.
Aside from his work at Stanford, he has been active with organizations that provide housing and services to Bay Area people experiencing homelessness. He currently serves on the board of Abode Housing Development. -
Jamele Christa Watkins
Postdoctoral Scholar, German Studies
BioJamele Watkins researches and teaches on issues of race and gender in contemporary German performance, film, and literature (broadly speaking). She is currently working on a book project that focuses on Black internationalism and the solidarity campaigns for Angela Davis in the GDR. She completed her doctoral studies in German at UMass Amherst with the completion of dissertation, “The Drama of Race.” She has also studied at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.
