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Adrienne Mayor
Visiting Scholar, Classics
BioAdrienne Mayor has been a research scholar in the Classics Department and History and Philosophy of Science Program at Stanford University since 2006. Her book, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology, explores the timeless quest for artificial life, to show how automatons, self-moving devices, human enhancements, and Artificial Intelligence were imagined in antiquity. Other books include Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws; Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World; The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World; The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths and Myths in Greek and Roman Times; and The Poison King: Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy (National Book Award finalist).
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David Mazieres
Professor of Computer Science
BioMazieres investigates ways to improve the security of operating systems, file systems, and distributed systems. In addition, he has worked on large-scale peer-to-peer systems and e-mail privacy.
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Cynthia Mazow
Director, Learning Design and Technology, Teaching and Learning Hub
Current Role at StanfordInstructional Designer, Digital Learning Solutions at the GSB
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Alix Mazuet
Advanced Lecturer, Language Ctr
BioAlix Mazuet specializes in French cultural history of the long nineteenth century, with a second area of expertise in Sub-Saharan postcolonial literatures and cultures. She is also an ACTFL certified rater of speaking and writing French as a Foreign Language.
Alix relocated in California after having taught French and Francophone Studies as Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Central Oklahoma. She now teaches French as a Foreign Language, French cultural history, and Francophone cultures at Stanford University, Language Center. -
Douglas McAdam
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor, Emeritus
BioDoug McAdam is The Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and the former Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the author or co-author of 18 books and some 85 other publications in the area of political sociology, with a special emphasis on race in the U.S., American politics, and the study of social movements and “contentious politics.” Among his best known works are Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, a new edition of which was published in 1999 (University of Chicago Press), Freedom Summer (1988, Oxford University Press), which was awarded the 1990 C. Wright Mills Award as well as being a finalist for the American Sociological Association’s best book prize for 1991 and Dynamics of Contention (2001, Cambridge University Press) with Sid Tarrow and Charles Tilly. He is also the author of the 2012 book, A Theory of Fields (Oxford University Press), with Neil Fligstein and a book due out this summer on the historical origins of the deep political and economic divisions that characterize the contemporary U.S. The book, from Oxford University Press, is entitled: The Origins of Our Fractured Society: Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War America (with Karina Kloos). He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
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Harley H McAdams
Professor (Research) of Developmental Biology, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsExperimental and theoretical analysis and modeling of genetic regulatory circuits, particularly bacterial regulation and with emphasis on global regulation of Caulobacter crescentus. Bioinformatic analysis of bacterial genomes, global patterns of gene transcription and translation.
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Tim McAdams, MD
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsCurrent studies include sports injuries in the NFL Athlete, evaluation of the graft types in the ACL injured knee, throwing athlete's shoulder, reconstruction techniques for elbow MCL injury, articular cartilage defects in the athlete's knee.
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Michael McAuliffe
Affiliate, Technology & Digital Solutions
Current Role at StanfordMichael McAuliffe is a program manager with Stanford Health Care's Office of Program Management & IT Governance. Michael's primary program management client is the Stanford Medicine Educational Technology team. He manages the team's technology and media production portfolio and provides project management for online course production. Michael manages the team's workload projection and cost recovery tools, while also serving as administrator for Stanford Medicine's lecture capture and media delivery system.
Michael served as Director of the Educational Technology team until 2015, at which point he transitioned to a 100% remote role working with Stanford Medicine while living with his family in Vermont.
Prior to joining Stanford Medicine in 2012, Michael was the director of IT Academic Services at Texas Wesleyan University. In this role, Michael served as lead project manager and as the primary liaison between the Information Technology unit and Academic leadership at Texas Wesleyan. Michael’s perspective on the use of multimedia in education also reflects his experience as an instructional designer with MLink Technologies, during which he designed and oversaw the development of training curriculum and learning tools for a select group of Fortune 100 clients.
Michael is a graduate of the Stanford Management Academy (2015) and the Educause Institute Management Program (2011), as well as a member of Educause, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the Western Group on Educational Affairs. Michael completed the Prosci Change Management Practitioner course in Winter 2024. -
Katherine Rachel McCallie
Clinical Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsLeveraging electronic health record (Epic) for improvement in NICU outcomes
Quality improvement in the NICU
Nutrition & growth in premature infants
