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Kahan, Michael
mkahan@stanford.edu
Phone: 724-7575
Office: 120-224
Michael Kahan is the Associate Director of the Program on Urban Studies at Stanford, and a lecturer in History and Urban Studies. He holds a BA from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, both in History. He is currently revising his dissertation, which examines the street life of Philadelphia from the 1850s through 1920s, for publication as a book. In the study, he traces how urban public space was defined and regulated by changing notions of danger. New technologies, social reforms, legal institutions, and ideas about race, class, gender, and ethnicity, he argues, all played a role in shaping concepts of safety and danger, and thus what was permitted or forbidden in the streets. Prior to joining Stanford in 2003, Kahan worked as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and taught courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban and social history.
McKibben, Carol Lynn
mckibben@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-9468
Office: 200-245
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
Mikhail, Alan
amikhail@stanford.edu
Phone: 498-4336
Office: 200-247
Alan Mikhail completed his Ph.D. in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation The Nature of Ottoman Egypt: Irrigation, Environment, and Bureaucracy in the Long Eighteenth Century is an environmental history of water usage, labor, disease, and natural resource management in rural Egypt. One of the first environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, this study combines Ottoman Turkish and Arabic archival materials and manuscript sources to argue that water connected Egypt socially, politically, ecologically, and culturally to areas all over the Ottoman Empire and beyond. In addition to turning his dissertation into a book, Mikhail is currently working on a global history of coffee and a study of medicine and disease in the early-modern Islamic world. His research and teaching interests lie in the fields of Ottoman history, the comparative history of early-modern empires, environmental history, and the history of Islamic science and medicine. His CV may be found at: www.alanmikhail.org.
Naranch, Bradley
bnaranch@stanford.edu
Phone: 498-4336
Office: 200-247
Bradley Naranch joined the History Department in September 2008 as a postdoctoral Humanities Fellow (http://fellows.stanford.edu/). He completed his undergraduate studies at Williams College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests include German colonial history, modern European imperialism, global history, and the history of journalism, telecommunications, and the mass media. He is preparing a book manuscript on the interconnected histories of national unification and overseas expansion in nineteenth-century Germany. He is also a co-editor with Geoff Eley (University of Michigan) of German Cultures of Colonialism: Race, Nation, and Globalization. This forthcoming essay collection reassesses the significance of colonialism for German history before the First World War and explores the lingering effects of the colonial period in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.
Sheffer, Edith
esheffer@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-2659
Office: 200-235
Edith Sheffer is an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She received her received her B.A. summa cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University, and completed her Ph.D. in History in 2008 at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Sheffer’s research challenges the conventional history of the Iron Curtain in Germany – suggesting how the physical barrier between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was an outgrowth of anxious postwar society on both sides. For over forty years, the daily fears and choices of ordinary Germans helped construct, sustain, and expand the lethal divide beyond what anyone foresaw. Her book, Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2011. In her second project, Dr. Sheffer plans to explore the intersection of the international and the everyday from an opposite vantage point, looking at the adaptation of McDonald’s across Europe. Her current courses in the History Department span twentieth-century Germany, self-policing in modern Europe, and relations between Europe and the Middle East, and her innovative methods at Berkeley and Stanford have been recognized by several teaching awards.
Trumper, Camilo
ctrumper@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-0797
Office: 200-242
Camilo Trumper completed his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 2008. His dissertation is a cultural history of political change in Salvador Allende's Chile. He studies the myriad ways in which a range of actors claimed city spaces as a means of entering into political debates with national ramifications. This focus on public space allows him to integrate the analysis of visual and material culture into a political history grounded in particular sites and spaces. His investigation of urban politics extends to protests, marches, strikes, as well as public art, street photography and documentary film as part of a larger struggle for political representation. He traces the impact that politics-on-the-streets had in the press and congress, challenging the limits of the public sphere in Latin America. His future research plans take him into the 19th and 20th centuries through a study of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso in the context of a wider "Pacific World."
Ward, James Mace
jmward@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-8807
Office: 200-213
James Mace Ward received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in June 2008, joining the faculty as an acting assistant professor of European history three months later. His dissertation is a political and intellectual biography of Jozef Tiso (1887–1947), the priest-president of Slovakia during the Second World War. Ward’s research examines the intersections between religion, nationalism, and mass violence. At present, he is revising his dissertation for publication as a book while developing ideas on a second project, a history of modern, state-led expropriation in relation to the social question, broadly defined. Framed as a journey through time and space down the Danube from Josephist Vienna to Stalinist Budapest, this monograph would investigate a series of episodes of or debates about expropriation within a Central European context.
Yilmaz, Huseyin
hyilmaz@stanford.edu
Phone: 723-1556
Office: 200-328
Huseyin Yilmaz received his PhD in 2005 from Harvard University in History and Middle Eastern Studies where his research has focused on the cultural and intellectual history of the early modern Middle East. From 2005 to 2008 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Introduction to the Humanities Program at Stanford. His research interests include constitutionalism, social stereotyping, translation and cultural formation, and tensions between Islamic and secular law in the Ottoman Empire. His latest work examines geographical and cultural imaginations of the modern Middle East in the nineteenth century. He is currently working on a book project based on his dissertation that examines how Sufi imageries of leadership came to define the Ottoman Caliphate in the sixteenth century.
Last updated July 24, 2009