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Jeffrey Dymond
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioI am an intellectual and legal historian. I aim in my research to understand the historical development of important social, political, and legal institutions and doctrines, such as sovereignty, the state, and international law. My current book project - called "Civilization and the Law of Nations" - re-constructs the assumptions about human nature and human sociability that animated the work of the early modern lawyers whose contributions gave initial shape to European ideas of international legal order. I especially wish to understand why these particular beliefs about human nature came to be regarded as universally applicable at a time of greater global and inter-cultural exchange. My PhD project focused on the reception of ancient Roman political and legal ideas and their role in shaping the modern state.
Before coming to Stanford, I was a postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at the University of Zürich, where I worked on a project tracing the reception of ancient Roman legal and political ideas across different points in European history. I earned my PhD in History in 2021 at the University of California, Los Angeles. -
Katie Fiocca
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioKatie received a PhD in Biology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, researching social insect nutritional physiology and chemical ecology. Additionally she earned a graduate minor in Undergraduate STEM Education through the Drexel Center for the Advancement of STEM Teaching and Learning Excellence.
She began her work at Stanford as an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Biology Department, working to better understand the relationship between poison frog prey selection and their toxic ant diet. During her position, she also worked to broaden the participation of diverse identities in science, focusing on partnering with the local Bay Area community, including both students and high school teachers.
Currently, she is a COLLEGE Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education with Stanford Introductory Studies. -
Mia Cecily Florin Sefton
COLLEGE Lecturer, Civic, Liberal, and Global Education
BioMia Florin-Sefton is a Lecturer in the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education (COLLEGE) Program. Prior to coming to Stanford, she taught in the English Department, the Core Curriculum, and the Center for Justice in Education at Columbia University.
A specialist in post-1865 American literature and culture, her first book project, The Disinherited: A 20th-Century Literary History of America, offers a cultural and intellectual history of the figure of “the disinherited” in post-1865 American fiction. She is also at work on a second book project—tentatively titled The Classroom and the Cell—which is motivated by one central question: What history of prisons and higher education emerges when we examine who has been encouraged to teach in prisons at different historical moments. More broadly, her research and teaching interests span political economy, gender and sexuality studies, intellectual history, critical race theory, settler colonial studies, the history of the novel, critical university studies, carceral studies, and the politics of prison education.
Her research has been recognized with the Miron Cristo-Loveanu Prize from Columbia University and the Jean Helen Macleod Prize from the University of Edinburgh, and supported by the Humanities Center Initiative, the Heyman Center, and the Thouron Award. You can find her academic writing in Novel, Diacritics, Feminist Modernist Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Post45, among other venues.
