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Carroll, Peter N.
retap1@stanford.edu
Peter N. Carroll has taught U.S. history at Stanford since 1983, offering regular summer courses on the relationship between American films and historical trends. He is author or editor of seventeen books, including
Di Marco, Francesca
dimarco.francesca@gmail.com
Office: 200-332
Francesca Di Marco is a cultural historian, specialized in history of modern Japan. She is particularly interested in the history of death, history of suicide, and in the cultural history of twentieth century Japan. She is currently working on her book manuscript, History of Suicide: Production, Promotion and Consumption of Suicide Discourse in Twentieth-Century Japan, which explores the historical and cultural forces that have formed, reinterpreted and reinvented the idea of suicide in Japan. It examines the norms and mechanisms regulating the construction of suicide in non-fictional media, in the medical community and in popular culture. In particular, it gains insight into the politicisation of suicide, its strumentalisation, (gendered) identity building and relationship(s) to power more generally.
At Stanford, Francesca will teach the course “History of Modern Japan” and the graduate seminar “Dilemmas of Modernity in XX Century Japan”.
Dubnov, Arie M.
dubnov@stanford.edu
Office: 200-125
Arie Dubnov holds a BA, an MA, and a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a past George L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His forthcoming book, Between Zionism and Liberalism: Isaiah Berlin and the Dilemma of the Jewish Liberal, will come out with Palgrave Macmillan next year, and examines the formative years of the liberal political philosopher and essayist Isaiah Berlin. Dubnov has also edited, and contributed to a special issue of the journal History of European Ideas (vol. 34, no. 2, 2008) reappraising Jacob L. Talmon’s historiography and theory of totalitarianism as well as a collection of essays Zionism: A View from the Outside (Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 2010), seeking to put Zionist history in a larger comparative trajectory. At Stanford Dubnov teaches courses in modern Jewish political and intellectual history as well as Israeli history.
Fredona, Robert
fredona@stanford.edu
Office: 200-247
Bob Fredona holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He was a recent Robbins Fellow at the law school of the University of California at Berkeley. And he is now ACLS New Faculty Fellow and lecturer in history at Stanford. His research and teaching interests are in the legal and political history of medieval and Renaissance Italy, the profound interactions and tensions between law and politics in theory and practice, and the place of both in the wider medieval and Early Modern worlds. He has published several articles and is currently at work on a number of projects, including the translation of several early Italian monetary treatises and working on turning his dissertation, Political Conspiracy in Florence, 1340-82, into a book.
Iber, Patrick
piber@stanford.edu
Office: 200-234
Patrick Iber holds an MA from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His dissertation, "The Imperialism of Liberty: Intellectuals and the Politics of Culture in Cold War Latin America," is an examination of the interpretations of and participation by Latin American intellectuals in the cultural Cold War, and the consequences of that participation for Latin American and global politics and culture. He has published in Nexos, Letras Libres, and the Chicago Review, and has work forthcoming in journals including Diplomatic History. He has taught courses on U.S.-Latin American relations and the history of Mexico and Central America. His broader interests include the history of intellectuals, the politics of poverty, and the history of non-European social democracy.
Kreiner, Jamie
jkreiner@stanford.edu
Office: 200-234
Jamie Kreiner is a historian of the early Middle Ages, with special interests in political culture, the place of religion in society, and the productive capacities of language and textual representation. She received her Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 2011, where in addition to an education in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages she also acquired an interest in the premodern pig. Her book in progress, The Social Functions of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom, is a history of how Merovingian society transformed its standards for political legitimacy and social responsibility in the seventh and eighth centuries, and how hagiography helped engineer those changes. In 2011-2012 she is teaching a course on saints in the Middle Ages, which addresses the changing roles that saints (a filled over a millennium of European history, and a seminar on pre-capitalist economy and society, which explores how deeply late antique and medieval economies were embedded in social structures and cultural value.
Kühner, Christian
kuehner@gmx.li
Christian Kühner holds a B.A. from the Sorbonne (Université de Paris IV), an M.A. from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and a bi-national PhD from the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) in Paris. Before coming to Stanford, he was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is a specialist of seventeenth-century Europe, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany. In his dissertation, he has analyzed the role and functioning of political friendship at the French court in the seventeenth century. Topics he is interested in include early modern autobiographies, the Counter-Reformation, the history of friendship and patronage, everyday life at court, early modern European nobilities, and the application of social and cultural theory to early modern European history.
McKibben, Carol Lynn
mckibben@stanford.edu
Office: 200-334
Carol Lynn McKibben began teaching courses in public history at Stanford in 2006. She received her Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. Her book, Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-1999 (University of Illinois Press, February, 2006) examines the migration and settlement of Sicilian fishing people to the Monterey Peninsula, with an emphasis on women’s roles in the process. She taught history and policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies from 1992-2001, and is currently Public Historian for the City of Seaside, California and the Director of the Seaside History Project. She is the author of Seaside (forthcoming, Arcadia Press, April, 2009), and completing work on the narrative history of Seaside, which focuses on race relations and the influence of the military (Fort Ord) on the city, The Making of a Multi-Cultural Military Town, Seaside, California, 1890-2006
Tortorici, Zeb
ztortori@stanford.edu
Office: 200-224
Zeb Tortorici, postdoctoral ACLS New Faculty Fellow in the Department of History at Stanford University, earned his MA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a Mellon/ACLS fellow in 2010, he completed his dissertation, “Contra Natura: Sin, Crime, and ‘Unnatural’ Sexuality in Colonial Mexico, 1530-1821,” which he is currently revising into a book manuscript. He has published articles in Ethnohistory, the Journal of the History of Sexuality, and the edited volumes Death and Dying in Colonial Spanish America (University of Arizona Press) and Queer Youth Cultures (SUNY Press). He co-edited Centering Animals: Writing Animals into Latin American History (Duke University Press, forthcoming) with Dr. Martha Few, and has a historiographical essay forthcoming in History Compass. In 2011, he completed an appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Tulane University.
Zarnow, Leandra
lzarnow@stanford.edu
Office: 200-247
Leandra Zarnow focuses foremost on United States women's political and legal development, US radicalism and dissent, domestic Cold War political culture, and the post-World War II period. Her current book project, Mother Courage: Bella Abzug and the American Left from the Great Depression to Watergate, considers the ideological roots of this New York Congresswoman's oppositional political leadership in the national legislature during the early 1970s. In research and teaching, Zarnow broadly explores the linkages between rights-based movements in domestic and transnational venues, and is especially interested in their usage of popular culture and governmental bodies to pursue social change. She also contributes to ongoing historical debate concerning the categorization of feminist history, the craft of biography, and the influence of generational politics and historical memory on historical scholarship.
Last updated Oct 13, 2011