Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Courtney L'Esperance
Associate Director, Advising Systems, Academic Advising Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director, Advising Systems
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Alison Grace Laurence
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioAlison Laurence is a Lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education. 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 historical study of nature on display, non-human animals, deep time, and extinction. Her current book manuscript--Of Dinosaurs and Culture Wars: A Monumental Reckoning with Modern American Monsters--traces how popular displays transformed dinosaurs and other creatures of deep time from scientific specimens to consumer objects and artifacts of everyday American life. Alison has published her research in Museum & Society, Notes & Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, and the Science Museum Group Journal. She holds a BA in Classics from Brown University and an MA in History and Public History from the University of New Orleans.
At Stanford, Alison has taught special topics courses like "Animal Archives: History Beyond the Human" and a variety of courses within the first-year liberal arts requirement, including: "Stories Everywhere," "100,000 Years of War," "Design That Understands Us," and "The Meat We Eat." During the 2022-2023 academic year, she is teaching "Why College?: Your Education and the Good Life," "Citizenship in the 21st Century," and "Preventing Human Extinction." -
Eloi Laurent
Overseas Studies - Paris, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Éloi Laurent is a senior economist at OFCE, professor at Ponts Paris Tech, at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po and visiting professor at Stanford University. Macro-economist by training (PhD), he graduated from Paris-Dauphine and Sciences Po (summa cum laude).
His work focuses on the relationship between well-being and sustainability through the social-ecological approach, in particular the exploration of the sustainability-justice nexus (just transitions) and planetary health-human health nexus (“full health nexus”).
He is the author or editor of twenty books in French and English (translated into nine languages), three governmental reports and around a hundred articles published in French and international journals.
He was parliamentary attaché to the National Assembly and assistant in the cabinet of the French Prime Minister. He has been a Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU) and Columbia University, Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, and Visiting Scholar and Professor at Harvard University.
He is Research Fellow at the Well-being Economy Alliance (WeALL), qualified expert for European institutions and chairman of the SHS 5 (economics and law) and Foresight (sustainable development) Commissions of the Scientific Research Fund, FRS- FNRS (Belgium).
He recently published:
- The New Environmental Economics – Sustainability and Justice (2020) https://politybooks.com/the-new-environmental-economics/
- The Well-being Transition: Analysis and Policy (2021) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030678593,
- the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment (2021) https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-the-Political-Economy-of-the-Environment/Laurent-Zwickl/p/book/9780367410704
- Toward Social-Ecological Well-Being - Rethinking Sustainability Economics for the 21st Century (2023) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-38989-4 -
Lina Le
Academic Affairs Administrator, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
BioLina is an Academic Affairs Administrator with Stanford Introductory Studies (SIS), under the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education (VPUE). She manages hiring and payments for instructors and faculty teaching in SIS programs. Prior to SIS, Lina was with the Diversity & Access Office providing students, staff, faculty and visitors disability-related accommodations and supporting the 8 staff affinity groups. She has also worked at the Graduate School of Business, helping MBA and MSx students acclimate to living on campus. Lina has a Bachelor's in Business Administration from San Jose State University and a Master's in Global Entrepreneurial Management from the University of San Francisco.
