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Assistant Professor Aishwary Kumar is elected a fellow by The National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education

Robert Crews, Associate Professor of History, moderated a timely conference on Afghanistan... The Stanford Review (Dec 4, 2009)

"Historian Discovers that the Chinese Typewriter is No Joke" The Stanford Report interviews History's Assistant Professor Thomas S. Mullaney about his new research." 

“Creating Lives in the Classroom” an article by Edith Sheffer. The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 22, 2009)

"Professor fights subpoena" History Professor Robert Proctor
The Stanford Daily (October 28, 2009)

Q&A: Stanford’s David Holloway on Obama’s missile defense plan. The Stanford Report (September 17, 2009)

Priya Satia's book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East is the recipient of the 2009 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize. The American Historical Association offers the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize annually for a distinguished book by an American author in the field of European history. Together with the Leo Gershoy Award, the Adams Prize is the most important distinction bestowed by the profession in the field of European history.

Toronto National Post’s “Last link mourned”,  Prof. Priya Satia comments on last WWI veteran’s passing.
Toronto National Post (August 7, 2009)

"Brilliant insights that led us astray in Iraq" by Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Financial Times (Aug 4, 2009)

Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “Iraqis are too Shewd to fall for an ‘Invisible’ Occupation”
Financial Times (July 1, 2009)

Assistant Professor Priya Satia won the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch’s award for the best first book in any field of history(February, 2009).

Assistant Professor Priya Satia’s essay “The Shadow of History Passes Over Pakistan”
Financial Times (May 20, 2009)

Assistant Professor Thomas Mullaney’s “The Chinese Typewriter” on The China Beat, May 14, 2009

Stanford Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor Priya Satia on “Lessons of War” in their May/June 2009 issue.

Time Magazine listed History Senior Lecturer Martin Lewis' YouTube Edu video as one of their favorites in the April 27, 2009 issue.
History: Geography of U. S. Elections

History Professor Steven Zipperstein’s article “Immersed in, and Suspicious of, Books”
The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 8,2009)

History Honors student, Stephanie Beck had an op-ed based on her Honors thesis on an earlier epidemic of the swine flu in the San Francisco Chronicle.
“When politics, and swine flu, infect health”

History Professor Steven Zipperstein on 'Rosenfeld's Lives'
Stanford Report interview (4/29/09)

Assistant Professor Priya Satia on "Britain's 'Covert Empire' in Iraq during the Mandate Era,"
interview on NPR's Worldview (WBEZ-Chicago), March 27, 2009.

History Professor James Campbell on 'Historical Consciousness'
Stanford Report interview (2/25/09)
Stanford Report video (2/25/09)

Gordon A. Craig, J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor emeritus of Humanities, passed away on October 30, 2005 after a long illness. Craig, an eminent scholar of German and European history, was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1961 until his retirement in 1985. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/national/09CRAIG.html

Kennell A. Jackson, Associate Professor of African History, passed away on November 21, 2005. Services will be held January 17, 2006 at 4:00 P.M. at the Stanford Memorial Church. http://kennell-jackson.memory-of.com/Tributes.aspx?cpage=2; http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/29/BAG8TFVCJ41.DTL

Last updated Sept. 1, 2010