Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Dylan Iskandar
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Bioenthusiast of boiled chicken sammies.
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Winston Iskandar
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Biohater of boiled chicken sammies
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Miikka Jaarte
COLLEGE Lecturer
BioMiikka Jaarte is a COLLEGE Lecturer in Stanford's Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program. He completed his PhD in Philosophy in 2025. His work lies at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics.
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Shiven Jain
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioThroughout my academic journey, I have sought to reimagine education as a collective act of meaning-making rather than a transactional exchange of knowledge. At Indus International School Pune, I collaborated with the English department to redesign our pedagogical framework: students alternated as instructors, teachers assumed the role of facilitators, and classrooms became dialogic spaces for co-construction. What began as a localized experiment now informs learning models across fifteen schools—a testament to the transformative potential of student agency when institutions make space for it.
This commitment to humanized learning permeates my broader work. Through IKKIS: The Podcast, I engage with actors, historians, and critics to examine postcolonial cinema as a site of resistance and reclamation. As the founder of the International Youth Philosophy Initiative (IYPI), I convene interdisciplinary seminars with peers from 37 countries, using literature, aesthetics, and critical philosophy to counter apathy and reanimate ethical inquiry.
Research forms the cornerstone of my intellectual life. For instance, my paper, Reclaiming Sociocultural Agency: The Resurrection of India and Africa in Postcolonial Cinema (The Schola, 2024), investigates narrative reclamation in the aftermath of cultural subjugation. I similarly approach media and cultural criticism as modes of activism: as Director of Content Development at RAYS Magazine, I lead initiatives that interrogate and reframe portrayals of mental health in popular culture, overseeing bimonthly publications rooted in accessibility and literacy. My essays for Film Companion, Youth Ki Awaaz, and Flick Deposit likewise aim to navigate—and, where necessary, dismantle—the ideological scaffolding of mainstream cinema.
To me, leadership and mentorship are natural extensions of intellectual agency. As a Teaching Assistant in English Language and Literature, I have conducted over 150 seminars exploring the intersections of language, politics, and aesthetics—facilitating sessions on figures such as Patrick Chappatte, Audre Lorde, Henrik Ibsen, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Across research, pedagogy, media, and mentorship, my work is undergirded by a singular conviction: that education, if it is to remain ethical, must center not merely the transmission of knowledge, but the reclamation of voice, the recognition of alterity, and the radical possibility of collective transformation. -
Martin Jander
Overseas Studies - Berlin, Bing Overseas Studies
BioDr. Jander was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. During his studies of German, History, Sociology, and Political Science in the late 1970s and early 1980s in West-Berlin, he established contact with several opposition members in the GDR and followed their activities. Since then, the topic of opposition in the GDR has been one of his main research fields. Martin Jander's second important field of research is German left-wing terrorism and its international connections. In both fields of research, Jander is particularly interested in references to Antisemitism. Together with Anetta Kahane, he developed the concept of an "unfinished republic" to describe the current Federal Republic of Germany (M. Jander, A. Kahane: Gefährdungen demokratischer Kultur: Die unvollendete Republik, 2020). The republic refuses to understand itself to the full extent as an immigration society. It also refuses to see itself to the full extent as a successor society to National Socialism.
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Harriett Virginia-Ann Jernigan
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly Interestssecond language acquisition, learner autonomy; task-, literacy-, and project-based instruction; storytelling, critical race theory (CRT); cultural rhetorics; large language models
Writing across the disciplines; Humanities 2.0; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in pedagogy; social geography; presentation culture; podcasting and public speaking -
David Thomas John
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioHi! My name is David John from San Diego, California. I am an Economics major (hopefully), and I am especially interested in Economics in relation to History. During High school, I researched the economic and political impact of California's Alien Land Laws on the different Asian ethnic groups that were primarily targeted by these laws, as I felt that this was a dark and impactful period in the History of California that not many of my peers or the general public are aware of. In my free time, I love to hang out with my friends, try new food, and play lacrosse.
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Jennifer Johnson
Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Intersections of Language, Identity and Culture, Sociocultural Studies in Education, Second Language Acquisition Theory and Bilingualism, Multimodal Communication and Theories of Embodiment, Deaf Studies
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Zandra L. Jordan
Director, Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
BioRev. Dr. Zandra L. Jordan is Director of the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. A trained rhetorician and ordained Baptist minister, she holds a B.A. in English from Spelman College, a M.A.T in English from Brown University, a MDiv with Certification in Black Church Studies from Emory University, and a PhD in English and Education from the University of Michigan. Her current scholarship focuses on womanist ethics, racial justice, and writing center administration. At Stanford, she also serves as a Chaplain Affiliate with the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life. Beyond Stanford, she serves on the ministerial team at UAMEZ Church in Palo Alto. Dr. Jordan is a proud member of the San Francisco-Peninsula Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and the San Jose (CA) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated.
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Christopher Kamrath
Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Citizenship and Political Dissent, Media History, Cultural Memory, andWriting technologies
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Hayden Kantor
Advanced Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFood and agriculture; ethnographic writing; rhetorics of capitalism; ethics of care; culture and history of India and South Asia
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Khedaar Kashyap
Undergraduate, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
BioSoftware & AI
Former Research: Federated Learning, CV Systems, Signal Processing, Monte Carlo (Markov-Chain)
incoming swe/mle summer '26 -
Nora Kassner
Lecturer
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNora Kassner's current book project, Hard to Place: Homosexuality, Foster Care, and the Remaking of the American Family, places gay and lesbian foster parents at the heart of the transformation of American family policy in the late twentieth century. Between the 1970s and the 1990s, gay and lesbian foster parents won the right to care for 'homosexual' teens, then children with HIV-AIDS, and then laid the groundwork for the legalization of gay parenthood across the United States.
