Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Haein Shim
Introsems Course Support, Freshman and Sophomore Programs (FSP)
Ida Content Intern, Institute for Diversity in the Arts
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate EducationBioHaein Shim is an activist, documentary producer, journalist, and photojournalist, dedicated to women’s rights and to pursuing truth and social justice through the power of visual storytelling.
Her over 50 published bylines have appeared in numerous international media outlets including TIME, The Economist, NPR, and Vice. Shim has also appeared to provide expert commentary on women’s rights issues in South Korea on global news platforms such as CNN, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera English. Her story as a feminist activist challenging beauty standards can be found in journalist Elise Hu’s book Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital. Her feminist artwork “I’m Not a Doll, I’m a Person” was selected for the Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibition, and has been displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and in its current display at the National Museum of Australia.
In 2023, she was a guest lecturer in a webinar at GADIP (Gender and Development in Practice) in Sweden titled “Gender in South Korea: Antifeminist Backlash and the Recent Rise of Feminist Politics of Refusal.” In 2024, she was invited to speak at Guerrilla in South Korea, where her lecture centered on the importance of women’s higher education. She was an Executive Board Member of Communications for the National Women’s Political Caucus San Gabriel Valley from 2023 to 2024, and was honored with the Women’s March Foundation’s Woman of the Year Award in 2024.
As a photojournalist, she has covered the largest women’s strike in Austria, an anti-femicide conference with DACH Vernetzungswochenende, the Feminist Perspectives Film Forum, and Pride Parade in Vienna. She has worked as an official photographer for film festivals including the Sarajevo Film Festival, International Cinematographers’ Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Drim Short Film Festival, and Ohrid Beach Film Festival, photographing actors Stellan Skarsgård and Willem Dafoe, and cinematographers Darius Khondji and Wally Pfister. At Stanford, she has photographed high-profile events featuring comedian Hasan Minhaj, author Melissa Febos, poets Joy Harjo, Aracelis Girmay, and Hanif Abdurraqib, U.S. Representative Ro Khanna, and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.
Currently, Shim is working as a documentary producer with an award-winning Austrian production team, focusing on global femicide across 12 countries. She has worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University and as a researcher for the upcoming book Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules by Megha Mohan, the BBC’s first Gender and Identity Correspondent.
Shim graduated summa cum laude from Pasadena City College in 2023 and is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, where she was awarded the 2024–2025 Institute for Diversity in the Arts fellowship as a filmmaker and photographer.
Shim is a proud first-generation immigrant from Gwangju, South Korea, deeply connected to the survivors of the Gwangju Uprising. She is the first woman in her family to pursue higher education. -
Cristian Felipe Soler Reyes
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioCristian Felipe Soler Reyes received a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Studies from Stanford University in 2023. His research looks at different Latin American art forms (painting, sculpture, cinema, literature, etc.) from the last 30 years with a transnational, cross-cultural, and transdisciplinary lens.
Cristian also created and chairs the research group “Comics: More than Words,” which has become a hub for interdisciplinary thought and for diversity. Students from different backgrounds come together in this space to learn from each other and to share their different perspectives. -
Lara Tohme
Associate Director of Introductory Seminars, Stanford Introductory Studies Operations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director of Introductory Seminars
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Kirsten Isabel Verster
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioHumanities Resume:
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Teaching Resume: TBD
PhD/Science:
While most of us are familiar with vertical transfer (e.g. I get genes from my father and mother), I find horizontal gene transfer (HGT) - exchanging genes between species - far more compelling. Imagine if you ate a jellyfish and the next day you glowed in the dark and had poisonous stingers! The prevalence of HGT in natural history, and its ability to suddenly create incredible phenotypes in animals, is becoming more apparent every year. I am currently studying HGT of cytolethal distending toxin B in insects in the Integrative Biology Department at University of California - Berkeley. I discovered that cdtB was transferred into the genomes of several drosophilid and aphid lineages (Verster et al 2019, Molecular Biology and Evolution). I also recently found that cdtB (in addition to other toxin genes) was transferred into an agriculturally devastating clade of insects known as midges - and, interestingly, that living in the same habitat may increase the likelihood of HGT between organisms (Verster and Tarnopol et al 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution).
Education
BA, Spanish Literature, University of Florida, 2014
BA, Zoology, University of Florida, 2014
PhD, University of California - Berkeley, 2022
Postdoc, Stanford University, 2022 - 2024
COLLEGE Lecturer, 2024-present
