Affiliated Faculty

Research interests
Social movements; Collective Action; Political Sociology; Network Analysis; Life Course.

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URBANST 202. Preparation for Honors Thesis

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Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Urban and Social History; Street Life; Urban Space.

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URBANST 110. Introduction to Urban Studies
URBANST 161. U.S. Urban History since 1920
URBANST 190. Urban Professions Seminar
URBANST 201. Preparation for Senior Project
URBANST 203. Senior Seminar

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Comparative Urban Histories of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the U.S.; Mexican American History; African Americans and Latinos; Contemporary Urban America; American West and California.

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History 260. Race and Ethnicity in the American Metropolis: Cities of Color—Los Angeles and East Palo Alto

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Social History of Brazil; Latin American Economic History; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

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Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.

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URBANST 112. The Urban Underclass

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Ancient Social and Economic History; Pre-Modern Historical Demography; Comparative and Interdisciplinary World History.

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CLASSHIS 60. The Romans

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Inner-city Youth; International Comparative Education; Language; Linguistics/Linguistic Human Rights; Literacy; Literacy and Culture; Curriculum and Instruction; Multicultural Education; Diversity; Teacher Education and Certification; Urban Education; Writing.

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Access and Equity; Applied Econometrics; Applied Statistics in Educational Research; Design Experiments; Economics of Education; Education Policy; Evaluation; Higher Education; Research Methods; State and Federal Education Policy; Statistical Methods and Applications in Statistical Issues; Statistics.

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Critical Theory and Popular Media; Embodied / Perceptual Experience in Contemporary Culture; Bodily Utopia; Hyperbole in General.

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Race and Ethnicity; Cultural Explanations of Social Mobility Differences; Racial and Ethnic Groups.

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EDUC 212X. Urban Education

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Probabilistic Modeling; Integration of Operations Research Models in Economic Analysis.

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MS&E 196. Transportation Systems and Urban Development.

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Culture as a Commodity; Memory and History; Feminism / Difference / Performance.

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URBANST 114 / ANTHRO 126. Cities in Comparative Perspective.

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Early History of Science and Medicine; Renaissance Italy; Relations among Gender, Culture, and Knowledge.

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American Studies; Effects of Journalism on American Writers’ Poetry and Fiction; African American Voices on Canonical American literature; Desegregation of American Literary Studies; Feminist Criticism; Public history and Literary History; Challenge of Transnational American Studies.

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Judaism: Talmudic Literature and Culture; Gender in Jewish Culture; Judaism & Christianity in Late Antiquity; Discourses of Orthodoxy vs. Heresy; Rabbinic Conceptions of Judaism w/respect to Greco-Roman Culture.

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RELIGST 237. Jewish and Christian Rome in the 1st – 6th Centuries

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Civil Rights and Anti-Discrimination Law; Political and Legal Boundaries as Instruments of Social Regulation and Cultural Phenomena; Race and Multiculturalism.

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Latin American (Economic) History; Social History of Brazil; Wealth and Inequality; Geographical Information Systems.

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History 276. Modern Brazil.

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Access and Equity; Cultural Studies; Educational Equity; Equity and Poverty; Higher Education; History of Education; Minorities; Multiculturalism; Social Theory.

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Stratification; Quantitative Methodology; Race, Class and Gender.

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SOC 141. Controversies about Inequality.

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South Asia and Southern Africa; Cities; Political Theory and Continental Philosophy; Psychoanalysis; Comparative Religion; Contemporary Urbanism. 

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ANTHRO 104. Urban Life and Cultural Imagination in South Asia.

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Archaeological Theory; Archaeology and Cultural Heritage of Europe and the Middle East; Excavations in Turkey; Material Culture. 

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ANTHRO 98E. Excavation at Catalhoyuk, Turkey.

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Linguistic Anthropology; Anthropology of Japan.

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ANTHRO 127. City and Sounds.

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Design; Injury; Mobility.

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Immigration; Race and Ethnicity; Inequality; Assimilation; Mexican Americans.

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Evolved Nature of American Higher Education; School Reform in the United States. 

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ED 220D. History of School Reform.

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Virtual Design; Computer Simulation and Modeling of Work Service/Maintenance Work Processes; Organization Design for Projects and Companies; Execution of Global Projects.

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Huguenot Emigration at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; Autobiography; Education of Girls in Early Modern France.

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History 234. Paris and Politics

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Human Communication; Organization of School Success and Failure; Various Literacies around the World.

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Organizational Characteristics Schools and Classrooms; Social Networks; Micro-Sociology; Social Dynamics.

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The Interface of Religion, Ethics, and the Professions.

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URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Ancient Greece; Cultural and Economic History; Excavation Monte Polizzo.

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How policies that manipulate geographic space change American elections, issue politics, and public policy.

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POLISCI 26N. American Transportation Politics

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Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Politics of Knowledge and Innovation; Relationship between Democracy and Inherent Human Capacities.

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Collective Action and Social Movement; Race and Ethnic Relations; Political Sociology; Organizations.

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Water Resources; Environmental Planning; Implementation of Environmental Policies.

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CEE 171. Environmental Planning Methods.

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Causes, Patterns, and Consequences of Residential and School Segregation; Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Achievement Disparities; Neighborhood Influences of Child Development.

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Contemporary Liberal Theory; Intersection of Political Theory and Educational Theory.

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POLISCI 133. Ethics and Politics of Public Service

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Complex and Urban Societies; Statistical and Formal Methods; Ceramic and Lithic Analysis; Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica.

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ANTHRO 105. Urbanism in the Prehispanic New World.

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Race and Ethnicity; Immigration and Assimilation; Quantitative Methods.

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URBANST 112. The Urban Underclass

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American Politics; Political Representation;
Latino Politics.

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Art and Archaeology of the Roman Empire; Dynamics of Urban Space.

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Life Careers; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods for Studying Change.

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Digital media, journalism and the roles played by media in American cultural history.

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Architecture; Planning; Design.

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URBANST 164. Utopia and Reality in Modern Urban Planning

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Bilingual Education / ESL, Educational Equity; Family Issues; Foreign Language Instruction; Hispanic Issues in Education; Immigrant Issues; Language Acquisition; Language Policy; Minorities.

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Intersections of Archaeology, Anthropology, Feminist studies, and Critical Race Studies; History of Human Sexuality.

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ANTHRO 103: The Archaeology of Modern Urbanism

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Urban Design; Architecture; Downtown Revitalization; Master Planning.

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URBANST 113. Introduction to Urban Design

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Gerald Gast, architect and urban designer, has twenty-five years experience in urban design, architecture, downtown revitalization and master planning. Active in urban design and architectural education throughout his professional career, Gast is currently Associate Professor in the University of Oregon's Portland Urban Architecture Program and Lecturer in the Urban Studies Program at Stanford University, where he has taught urban design since 1982. Gast served as Director of Oregon's Portland Architecture Program and was previously Director of the San Francisco Center for Architecture and Urban Studies.

Gast co-founded Gast Hillmer Urban Design in 1984. From the beginning, the firm's work has emphasized compact, pedestrian and transit-oriented urban development, focusing on downtown and community-scale projects. Gast was Principal-in-charge of the $ 70 million Uptown District mixed-use development in San Diego, Master Plan for the San Diego County Administration Center (American Planning Association "Outstanding Planning Project" Award), Downtown Scottsdale Arizona Urban Design Guidelines, San Diego County Design Guidelines for seven communities (American Planning Association "Outstanding Planning Project" Award), and General Plan Urban Design Elements for the cities of San Clemente, Dana Point and Huntington Park (Los Angeles), California.

Gast is a graduate of the University of Illinois, where he completed his Masters degree in Architecture and Urban Design.

Research interests

S. Urban History of the early national period.

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URBANST 160, Environmental Policy and the City in U.S. History.

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From 2006 to 2010, Aggarwala was the Director of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability for the City of New York. In that role, he served as the chief environmental policy advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, and led the development and implementation of New York City's sustainability plan, PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York. Mayor Bloomberg called him "the brains behind PlaNYC."

Research interests
Managing Local Government.

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Environmental and social impacts associated with energy development; public participation in environmental and energy decision-making.

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URBANST 164, Sustainable Cities.

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Hilary Schaffer Boudet's current postdoctoral research is funded by a grant from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy. Boudet completed her dissertation at Stanford in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources in June 2010. Her dissertation focused on the factors and processes shaping community mobilization around proposals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. To conduct this research, she received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Science and Society and Sociology programs to study contentious politics surrounding the siting of 20 energy facilities in the U.S. with Professor Doug McAdam.

Research interests
Social Entrepreneurship; Community Based Digital Data Collection; International Management, Development, and Consulting.

Teaching

URBANST 131, Social Innovation & The Social Entrepreneur

URBANST 133. Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory.

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Melanie Edwards is Reuters Digital Vision Fellow and lecturer in Urban Studies and Public Policy Programs. She has worked for 15 years in international business and development, in management for J.P. Morgan and International Data Group (IDG). She launched the Global Technology Corps, a “digital Peace Corps” now operating within the U.S. Department of State. Melanie then co-created the United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS). Mobile Metrix, a community-based digital data collection service, which she co-founded evolved out of her work at Stanford as a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow. Melanie received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and M.A. from The Fletcher School of International Relations, Tufts University.

Research interests

Urban planning and management; urban revitalization; politics and public policy; land use policy and growth management.

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URBANST 111, Urban Politics.

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Dennis Gale served as an urban planning consultant in Washington, D.C. from 1971 to 1974. During 1974 and 1975 he served as Director of Planning and Management Studies at The Urban Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center, also in Washington, DC. In 1975 he joined the graduate urban planning faculty at George Washington University and advanced to full professor with tenure in 1988. While there he was director of the Center for Washington Area Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. Subsequently, he taught at universities in Maine and Florida before joining Rutgers as the Founding Director of the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies. He held professorial appointments in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, the Department of Political Science, and the Joint Urban Systems PhD Program. He has been Professor Emeritus since 2008.

Research interests

Architecture; Urban Design; Urban Planning; Transit as a Fundamental Means of Transportation.

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URBANST 171. Urban Design Studio.

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Dehan (Danno) Glanz is a designer with experience in architecture, urban design, urban planning. He is specifically interested in transit as a fundamental means of transportation. His professional experience spans 10 years and has included large and small-scale village design, architectural prototypes, and transit oriented mixed-use neighborhoods. Prior to joining Calthorpe Associates, Mr. Glanz worked with Simon Martin-Vague Winklestein Morris as a Project Manager. His projects included the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Re-Use Plan and the Long Beach/Anaheim Redevelopment Plan. His projects with Calthorpe Associates include Stapleton Redevelopment Plan, Denver, CO; St. Andrews Master Plan, Perth, Australia; Denver LRT Study, Denver, CO; Englewood Town Center, Old Elm Village, Petaluma, CA; Englewood, CO; and Richmond BART Transit Village, Richmond, CA. Mr. Glanz graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies from Stanford University, and received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Research interests
Land Use Control; Urban Environmental Policy.

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URBANST 163. Land Use Control Urban Planning.

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Skid Hall holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S., Ph.D. from Colorado State University in Natural Resource Planning and Policy. He is a member of the American Instutitue of Certified Planners (AICP), as well as a Certified Environmental Planner (CEP.) Skid Hall has been involved in the Urban Studies Program for approximately 20 years.

Research Interests:Anthropology and education, US-Mexico immigration, school re-segregation, social movements, public and activist scholarship, alternative pedagogies

Teaching:

URBANST 198.Senior Research in Public Service;  URBANST 123. Approaching Research and the Community 

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Clayton received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He has extensive experience in community-based research, including ethnographic work in Central and South America on indigenous rights and education (Bolivia, Ecuador and Guatemala) and in northern California on issues of US-Mexico immigration, community organizing and public schooling. He has also coordinated a number of cross-cultural service learning projects in both the United States and abroad related to K-12 education and youth development, human rights issues and public health services.

Before arriving at Stanford, Clayton held a dual appointment as Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Service-Learning at the College of Coastal Georgia. Previous to that, he served as Assistant Professor of Education and Director of the Office of Service-Learning in the Institute for Learning and Teaching at Colorado State University (2005-2010).

Research interests

Hawaiian nationalism; gender and labor in contemporary South Asia.

Teaching

URBANST 114, Cities in Comparative Perspective.

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Jewish Feminism; Rabbinical Ethics; The Relationship between Religion and Education; Social Justice; Student Mental Health and Well-being.

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URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Social Innovation; Concepts and Analytic Skills for Social Sectors.

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URBANST 137, Innovations in Microcredit and Development Finance.

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Michael Kieschnick is president and co-founder of Working Assets, a wireless company that donates a portion of its revenues to progressive groups. Michael has a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University, and degrees in biology and economics from Stanford University. He serves as a board member for the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Sojourners, and the Beatitudes Society, which supports progressive Christians through seminary chapters and social justice fellowships. In his spare time, Michael is one of the organizers of the Secretary of State Project, which helped elect five new secretaries of state in battleground states.

Research interests
Public Policy; Transit and Transportation Planning.

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URBANST 165. Sustainable Urban and Regional Transportation Planning

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Prior to working for the County of San Mateo, Joseph Kott was Senior Transportation Projects Manager at Wilbur Smith Associates in San Francisco, a Principal at Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates in San Francisco, and Chief Transportation Official for the City of Palo Alto.
Kott is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit and holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as master’s degrees in both transport planning and traffic engineering from the Institute of Transport Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and a doctorate in urban and regional transport planning from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.  His doctoral dissertation was on the design and assessment of sustainable commercial arterial streets (main streets) under the supervision of Professors Jeff Kenworthy and Peter Newman within the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP). Kott has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) since 1982 and in 2007 was awarded Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) certification from the Transportation Professional Certification Board Inc., an affiliate of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, achieving the highest certification test score in the nation. A native of Detroit, he comes from a Michigan family with four generations of service in automobile manufacturing, primarily with the Chrysler Corporation and one of its predecessors, the Dodge Brothers Company.

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URBANST 166, East Palo Alto: Reading Urban Change

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With Nancy Brink he made the documentary Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto that was created in association with the Haas Center and produced for Stanford University Libraries and the Committee on Black Performing Arts. The film has been widely used on campus as background for students working in the community and as a critical education tool for East Palo Alto community organizations, schools and municipal government.

Research interests

Starting and Managing Hybrid Enterprises; Socially Innovative Non-Profits and Businesses.

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URBANST 132, Concepts and Analytic Skills for the Social Sector.

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For three decades Larry Litvak has been in involved in starting and managing hybrid enterprises that combine for-profit and social missions, and through various roles, investing in, granting to, and governing a range of socially innovative non-profits and businesses.

Research interests
Integrated Connection of Body, Mind, and Spirit; Sports and Spirituality.

Teaching
URBANST 126. Spirituality and Nonviolent Urban and Social Transformation

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Social Entrepreneurship.

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URBANST 133. Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory

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In 1985 Laura Sher co-founded Working Assets, a wireless, long-distance and credit card company that donates part of its revenues to progressive organizations working for peace, human rights, economic justice, education and environment. Since its founding the company has channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and the Children's Defense Fund. In 1997 Sher was named Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California.

Laura Scher was an undergraduate at Yale University, where she was active in the movement for divestment in South Africa, and spent a year at the Institute for International Studies in Geneva. After working for Bain and Co, Sher graduated the Harvard Business School (1985) as a Baker Scholar.

Research interests
Urban Planning; Community; City in Literature and Film.

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URBANST 110. Introduction to Urban Studies.

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Fred Stout is the co-author and co-editor (with Michele Marincovich and Jack Prostko) of The Professional Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants (Anker Publishing, 1998) and a contributor to The Encyclopedia of the City and The Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Stout is co-editor (with Richard LeGates) of The City Reader, a widely cited anthology of contemporary and classic readings in Urban Studies now in its fourth edition from Routledge Press, and of Early Urban Planning 1870-1940, a nine-volume series of writings by seminal urban thinkers such as Ebenezer Howard and Charles Mulford Robinson. Stout holds an M.A. from Harvard, and has taught Urban Studies at Stanford since the 1970s.

Research interests
Architectural History and Theory; Art.

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ARTHIST 252A. Place: Making Space Now

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Tom Beischer currently teaches architectural history and theory at Stanford and the California College of the Arts. He received a BA in art history from Stanford, an MA in art history from Williams College, and a PhD in history, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture from MIT. His scholarship has ranged from articles on 19th-century architecture to contemporary
Asian art.

Research interests
Immigration, Gender, and Cultural Citizenship in the U.S.

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ANTHRO 93B. Prefield Research Seminar: Non-Majors

CHICANST 168. New Citizenship: Grassroots Movements for Social Justice in the US (ANTHRO 169A, CSRE 168, and FEMST 140H)

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After graduating from Stanford in 1990, Kathy worked for a Central American solidarity organization, researched grassroots women's health promotion in Mexico, and taught Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco City College and DeAnza College. After completing her PhD in Anthropology at Stanford in 2000, Kathy was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, received a post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council, taught Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Harvard, and was a visiting scholar at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and Columbia University's Reid Hall in Paris. In addition to teaching Anthropology courses on research methods (Anth 93 & 93b), Kathy is also a lecturer in Feminist Studies and CSRE/Chicano Studies. She particularly enjoys working with undergraduates to prepare and carry out independent fieldwork, experiential learning and politically-engaged or community-based research projects.

Research interests
Global Infrastructor, Global Engineering, Construction

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CEE 141A. Infrastructure Project Development

CEE 141B. Infrastructure Project Delivery

CEE 141C. Global Infrastructure Projects Seminar

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Griggs has over 30 years of global infrastructure project experience including major projects in the US, Mexico, Latin America, Africa and Asia. He has served as project manager and held senior management positions with several global engineering and construction firms, including the last 18 years with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) where he served as Chairman of the Americas operation and, prior to that, President of the Infrastructure Company. Griggs is a civil engineering graduate (MSCE) of the University of Washington and a registered professional engineer. He will be teaching a series of new courses in Infrastructure Project Development and Delivery to help prepare the next generation of leaders needed to address the growing infrastructure crisis. He will also be participating in the University’s Collaborative for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) which includes scholars from the schools of Engineering, Business and Law and is focused on improved project delivery.

Research interests
International History; Global Spatial Relations.

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History 106A. Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa
History 106B. Global Human Geography: Europe and Americas

Research interests
Indus Civilization; Eastern North America; Evolutionary Theory; Paleodemography; Archaeometry; History of Archaeology.

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Jim Truncer holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology (1999) from the University of Washington. Recently, Truncer edited the book Picking the Lock of Time: Developing Chronology in American Archaeology (University Press of Florida, 2003) that explores the issue of chronology--the crucial determination of the age of an artifact or site. The essays in the book document the contributions of early American archaeologists, both well known and obscure, who helped crack the "chronology problem."