Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Alison Grace Laurence
Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Thinking Matters
BioAlison Laurence is a Lecturer in the Thinking Matters program. She received her PhD from MIT’s interdisciplinary program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) in 2019. A cultural and environmental historian, she specializes in the study of nature on display. Her dissertation, “Afterlives of Extinction: The Politics of Display in the Modern United States,” traced how popular exhibitions transformed dinosaurs and other creatures of deep time from scientific specimens to consumer objects, artifacts of everyday American life, and usable pasts that serve the present. Alison’s work has appeared in the Science Museum Group Journal, the History of Anthropology Newsletter, and the Anthropocene Curriculum. She holds a BA in Classics from Brown University and an MA in History and Public History from the University of New Orleans.
During the 2019-20 academic year, she is teaching "Stories Everywhere," "100,000 Years of War," and "Preventing Human Extinction." -
Eloi Laurent
Paris Center Lecturer, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Éloi Laurent is a Senior Research Fellow at OFCE (Sciences Po Centre for Economic Research, Paris), Professor in the School of Management and Innovation at Sciences Po and Visiting Professor at Stanford University. A macroeconomist by training (PhD, highest honors) and laureate of Sciences Po (summa cum laude), his current work focuses on environmental sustainability and well-being and social-ecology. He is the author or editor of twelve books (five translated into several languages), three governmental reports and a hundred articles published in French and international journals. Dr. Laurent has a background in policy making as a former parliamentary assistant in the National Assembly (Paris) and aide to the French Prime Minister and an extensive international academic experience as a visiting scholar at New York University and Columbia University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal and Visiting scholar and Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He currently teaches new indicators of well-being, resilience and sustainability at Stanford University and Sciences Po and ecological economics in Sciences Po. He is the author (most recently), in French, of the two best-sellers Nos Mythologies Economiques (2016) and Nouvelles mythologies économiques and Notre bonne fortune (2017) and in English, Fruitful Economics (2015), Report on the State of the European Union-Is Europe Sustainable? (2015) and Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-being, Resilience and Sustainability in the 21st century (2018).
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Anna Lee
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
SU Student - Summer, GSE Dean's Office Operations
Stanford Stdnt Employee-Summer, Hume CenterCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsAnna's research interests are how people learn about and make decisions related to food and waste.
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Christine Lee
Academic Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordAcademic Advising Director
