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Courtney MacPhee
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2020
Peer Teaching Mentor, History Department
Workshop Coordinator, History DepartmentCurrent Role at StanfordCo-coordinator of the Religion, Politics, and Culture Workshop, sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center
Communications Coordinator of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Stanford University
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Thomas MaCurdy
Professor of Economics, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
BioThomas MaCurdy is a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, and he further holds appointments as a Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. MaCurdy has published numerous articles and reports in professional journals and general-interest public policy venues, and he has served in an editorial capacity for several journals. He is a widely-recognized economist and expert in applied econometrics, who has developed and implemented a wide range of empirical approaches analyzing the impacts of policy in the areas of healthcare and social service programs. MaCurdy directs numerous projects supporting the activities and operations of the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), General Accounting Office (GAO), and Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), and Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), and he has served as a member of several standing technical review committees for many federal and state government agencies (e.g., CBO, Census, BLS, California Health Benefits Review Program). MaCurdy currently supervises several empirical projects that support CMS regulatory policy responsible for the establishment of Healthcare Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.
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Ali Madani
Lecturer
BioAli Madani is Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and Lecturer in English at Stanford.
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Mari Liis Madisson
Affiliate, H & S Programs
BioI am a semiotician specialising in conspiracy theories, information influence activities, and strategic narratives. I earned my PhD from the University of Tartu in 2016, where I examined the semiotic construction of identities in the online communication of the Estonian extreme right. I work in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, and I have also held visiting scholar positions at Queen’s University Belfast, the Estonian Military Academy, Tbilisi State University. Over the years, I have delivered more than twenty courses on semiotics, digital culture, media analysis, and critical approaches to misinformation, and I have given invited guest lectures at eight European universities.
My first area of expertise concerns conspiracy theories and digital culture. I am recognised as one of the leading qualitative scholars in the Baltics in this field. I have co-authored two monographs—Strategic Conspiracy Narratives: A Semiotic Approach (Routledge, 2020, with Andreas Ventsel) and Varjatud märgid ja salaühingud (2023, with A. Ventsel and M. Lotman)—and I have published extensively on multimodal conspiracy discourse and strategic communication related to conspiracy theories. I also served as Work Package Leader in the ERA-NET CHANSE project REDACT, coordinating comparative research teams across Europe.
A second strand of my work focuses on information influence activities, hybrid threats, and strategic narratives. Since 2019, I have published in journals such as Media, War & Conflict, European Security, and Armed Forces & Society, analysing the discursive construction of threats, Russian influence operations, and the securitisation of disinformation. As a member of the NATO SAS-177 Information Warfare Research Group, I collaborate with strategic communication specialists from multiple member states and gain practical insight into contemporary information-security challenges.
My third line of research is applied: I have participated in several Estonian and international projects that promote and examine societal and cultural resilience and civic media literacy. I co-developed a transmedia learning platform for the Estonian Defence Forces to help conscripts recognise and critically interpret hostile influence techniques. I also contribute to the Erasmus+ initiative Students’ Critical Digital Literacy Development Against Disinformation. This work connects semiotic research with the needs of defence, education, and civil-society partners.
My contributions to political semiotics, conspiracy theory studies, and the analysis of information influence activities have been recognised with the Science Award of the Republic of Estonia (2024), the country’s highest scientific honour. I regularly participate in public discussions on digital culture and disinformation, and I collaborate with journalists, policymakers, and civil-society organisations. I also review for leading international journals in semiotics and communication studies.
I am open to collaboration on projects related to the study of conspiracy theories, information influence activities, strategic narratives, hybrid threats, digital culture, civic and digital resilience, and qualitative approaches to contemporary security discourse. -
Beatriz Magaloni
Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsComparative Politics, Political Economy, Latin American Politics
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Raghu Mahajan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests are wide-ranging:
1) In the context of gravity, how does spacetime emerge from its dual quantum system? How does the dual quantum system encode the answers to questions that involve local physics in semi-classical gravity? How do you avoid the "firewall" paradox in the context of black-hole evaporation?
2) How do you calculate electrical and heat currents in strongly-coupled many-body systems? How do you explain the linear-in-temperature resistivity in high-temperature cuprates?
3) Use tensor network methods to study electrical and heat transport and also the real-time dynamics of systems out of thermal equilibrium. -
Eric Malczewski
Affiliate, Bill Lane Center for the American West
Visiting Scholar, Bill Lane Center for the American WestBioTo learn more about Eric Malczewski, please visit his website here: www.intrinsicliberty.com
Eric Malczewski is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in The Bill Lane Center for the American West.
He is a social theorist working in the areas of social and political theory, philosophy of the human sciences, sociological theory, sociology of knowledge, comparative historical sociology, and culture. He has published on the organizing principles of social science, epistemological issues in social and sociological theory, nationalism, culture, and conceptions of nature in American culture and 19th century American landscape painting. He is an expert on the thought of Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and Ferdinand Tonnies. His current work develops the theory of human will and its major political philosophical implication -- namely, the theory of intrinsic liberty.
His work has been published in Sociological Theory, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, The Journal of Historical Sociology, The Journal of Classical Sociology, Cosmos+Taxis, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, The Turkish Journal of Sociology, The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in STEM (SAGE), Research Handbook on Nationalism (Oxford: Edward Elgar), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Handbook of Cultural Sociology (SAGE), and Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective (Routledge).
He is also a Faculty Fellow at Yale University at the Center for Cultural Sociology (with which he has been affiliated since 2014), a Miller Fellow at the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History, and a Member of The Ciceronian Society. He has been an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech since 2018. In 2023-2024 he also was a Humanities Associate at Virginia Tech. He has served on several prize committees for the American Political Science Association and the American Sociological Association.
From 2009 to 2018 he was at Harvard University, where he was a Lecturer on Social Studies teaching social and political theory. He also served on the Board of Advisors and advised Senior honor’s theses. His primary affiliation was with Quincy House from 2009-2017. From 2013-2018 he oversaw Harvard's Visiting Undergraduate Student Program and also was affiliated with Dudley House.
He received awards at Harvard for Distinction in Teaching in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2017. In 2013 he received Social Studies' highest accolade for advising – the Harvard University Barrington Moore Award for Excellence in Advising. In 2015 he was awarded the Harvard University Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising (Harvard’s highest award for advising).
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Liisa Malkki
Professor of Anthropology, Emerita
BioLiisa H. Malkki is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. Her research interests include: the politics of nationalism, internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and human rights discourses as transnational cultural forms; the social production of historical memory and the uses of history; political violence, exile, and displacement; the ethics and politics of humanitarian aid; child research; and visual culture. Her field research in Tanzania exlored the ways in which political violence and exile may produce transformations of historical consciousness and national identity among displaced people. This project resulted in Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology Among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (University of Chicago Press, 1995). In another project, Malkki explored how Hutu exiles from Burundi and Rwanda, who found asylum in Montreal, Canada, imagined scenarios of the future for themselves and their countries in the aftermath of genocide in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Malkki’s most recent book, Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork (with Allaine Cerwonka) was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007. Her most recent book-length project (based on fieldwork from 1995 to the present) examines the changing interrelationships among humanitarian interventions, internationalism, professionalism, affect, and neutrality in the work of the Finnish Red Cross in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
