Affiliated Faculty
InterestsPopulation spread Contactcavalli@stanford.edu | |
 | Robert B. DunbarW.M. Keck Professor of Earth Science Rob Dunbar’s research and teaching interests include climate dynamics, oceanography, marine ecology and biogeochemistry. He is also interested in environmental policy directed towards problem-solving. His research group studies global environmental change with a focus on air-sea interactions, tropical marine ecosystems, polar climate, and biogeochemistry. Current field areas include the Galápagos Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Antarctica, the Line Islands, Easter Island, Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, and Palau. Rob’s research team is currently working on several projects in Antarctica to assess the impacts of climate change on Southern Ocean ecosystems and C-system chemistry. His team is also well into a multi-year effort to collect deep sea corals to better understand their ecology as well as their self-contained records of change in the deep sea. In 2009, Rob was elected as a Trustee for the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington D.C. Rob was the founding director of Stanford’s Emmitt Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). He received his Ph.D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is also an avid nature photographer with his photos being featured in many publications. InterestsRadiometric Age-Dating,Climate Change, Holocene Variability throughout the Pacific Ecosystem, Dynamics Isotope Geochemistry Environmental Science Contactdunbar@stanford.edu |
 | Paulla Ebron Associate Professor of Anthropology Ph.D. Massachusetts Amherst, 1993 Paulla Ebron joined the department in 1992. Ebron is the author of Performing Africa, a work based on her research in The Gambia that traces the significance of West African praise-singers in transnational encounters. A second project focuses on tropicality and regionalism as it ties West Africa and the U.S. Georgia Sea Islands in a dialogue about landscape, memory and political uplift. This project is entitled, "Making Tropical Africa in the Georgia Sea Islands." This summer, she will travel with a team of students to Charleston, South Carolina, to participate in a field school in collaboration with the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture. Interests Research interests include commoditization of culture, heritage, memory and history, performance, and writing culture. Research areas include West Africa and the transatlantic connections. Link www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/103 |
 | Gail A. MahoodProfessor, Geological and Environmental Sciences InterestsResearch interests include physical volcanology, igneous Contactmahood@stanford.edu |
 | Mike MoldowanProfessor-Research (Emeritus), Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences I teach courses related to the subject matter of my research. The technology and its application in aspects of etroleum exploration and production, environmental analysis, and archeological aspects are introduced in the lecture course, Petroleum Geochemistry in Environmental and Earth Science. For those students interested in applying molecular geochemistry in their thesis research I teach a follow-up course called Laboratory Methods in Organic Geochemistry. InterestsGeoarchaeology, organic and petroleum geochemistry, and molecular fossils Contactmoldowan@stanford.edu Linkwww.ges.stanford.edu/people.profile.php?p=j.moldowan&pid=379&type=faculty# |
 | Grant Parker Capetonian-born Grant Parker studied at the University of Cape Town and taught initially at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). After graduating from Princeton he especially relished the interdisciplinary environment of Ann Arbor, where he was a postdoc in the Society of Fellows. Though his day-job is in classics, he has tended to seek topics where colonial histories intersect with ancient pasts. Earlier work has examined Greek and Roman image-making of the east (The Making of Roman India, 2008), and of Mediterranean travel in comparative perspective (Mediterranean Passages: readings from Dido to Derrida, co-edited with miriam cooke and Erdag Goknar, 2008). Current projects involve the ancient Roman lives of Egyptian obelisks, and the receptions of ancient Greece and Rome in South Africa. Interests Obelisks, the Nile, maps, orientalism, Mediterranean, history of scholarship |
Bill Rathje Lecturer currently on leave, Archaeology Center Bill Rathje is an archaeologist interested in the way the material and the mental fit together in a world, like all human-related worlds, that does not mesh as expected. Rathje is the Director of The Garbage Project -- a 31-year-old study of household garbage and related interview-survey in several North American cities.The primary finding of the study is simple: what people say they buy, use, save, and discard is different from the material remains that represent what they bought, used, saved, and discarded. Rathje believes that this difference is important and amazingly fun to investigate! Interests Garbage, municipal solid waste, resource waste, diet, hazardous waste, respondent bias Contact rathjewl@aol.com | |
 | Helen Stacy Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI); Coordinator, Program on Human Rights, FSI As a scholar of international and comparative law, legal philosophy, and human rights, Helen Stacy has produced works analyzing the efficacy of regional courts in promoting human rights, differences in the legal systems of neighboring countries, and the impact of postmodernism on legal thinking. Her recent scholarship has focused on how international and regional human rights courts can improve human rights standards while also honoring social, cultural, and religious values. Stacy is a senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, where she coordinates the human rights program. She is also a researcher with the European Forum at the Freeman Spogli Institute, a member of the Committee in Charge of the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and she is associated with the Center for African Studies. Stacy was a senior lecturer in law at Stanford Law School from 2005 to 2010. Before joining Stanford Law, she was a senior lecturer at Queensland University of Technology School of Law, a senior prosecutor for the Director of Public Prosecutions in London, and a legal officer for Shell Oil in Australia. Contacthstacy@stanford.edu Linkhttp://www.law.stanford.edu/directory/profile/137/Helen%20Stacy/ |
 | Peter Vitousek Professor, Biological Sciences InterestsGeoarchaeology, Nutrient cycling in tropical and temperate forests. Regulation of cycling of nitrogen, phosphorus, and several other nutrients by using chemical analysis of soil, water, and gas samples from field sites. Biological invasion by exotic species, and sources of elements during long-term soil and ecosystem development in the Hawaiian Islands. Contactvitousek@stanford.edu |
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