ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Professor Richard G. Klein
Interests: Paleoanthropology; Africa, Europe.
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ART AND ART HISTORY

Assistant Professor Morten Steen Hansen
Interests: Renaissance Art
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Assistant Professor Bissera Pentcheva
Interests: Byzantine art, icons, aesthetics and sensory experience, imperial ideology and court culture, ritual and liturgy, medieval image theory, memory and imagination.
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Associate Professor Maria Gough
Interests: Modern and Contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes, French modernism, and Weimar Germany.
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Asisstant Professor Pavle Levi
Interests: European cinema with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, aesthetics and ideology, encounters between film theory and practice, psychoanalytic theory of the media.
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Professor Michael J. Marrinan
Interests: European art of the 18th and 19th centuries with an emphasis on France, focusing on the imaging of contemporary culture and the production of historical meaning through the intersection of diverse levels of representation.
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Associate Professor Jody Maxmin
Interests: Greek vase-painting and sculpture; 6th century B.C. black-figure vase-painters; archaic and classical Athens; ancient athletics and the relationship of art, sport, and society; classical influences on later art and culture, including contemporary popular culture.
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Professor Bryan J. Wolf
Interests: Seventeenth-century Dutch art
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CLASSICS

Professor A. Barchiesi
Professor of Italian Studies
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Professor Susanna Braund
Interests: Imperial Latin literature especially epic, Roman tragedy, Roman satire, panegyric; reception of Roman antiquity; translation studies.
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Asisstant Professor Giovanna Ceserani
Interests: Ancient Greece. She also participates as research director in the AREA project (Archives for European Archaeology)
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Professor Marsh H. McCall Jr.
Interests: Greek tragedy, rhetoric, literary criticism, textual criticism
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Professor Richard P. Martin
Interests: Greek lyric in relation to art and music, Greek myth and religion
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Professor Richard P. Saller
H&S Dean's Office
Dean of H&S Dean of H&S and Prof. of Classics and History
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Professor Ian Morris
He is now writing a book on freedom and economic growth in ancient Greece, Ian also directs the excavation of Monte Polizzo, a sixth-century BC indigenous Sicilian town, examining imperialism and cultural interaction
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Professor Reviel Netz
Publications include: the translation and commentary of the works of Archimedes
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Asisstant Professor Grant Parker
He teaches mostly Latin, as well as topics linked to the exotic and geographic elements of Roman imperial culture
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Associate Professor Anastasia- Erasmia Peponi
Interests: Greek Aesthetics, Lyric as a Verbal and as a Visual Genre, Dance in Greek Antiquity
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Professor Rush Rehm
Professor of Drama, his current projects include topics on Greek Tragedy
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Professor Walter Scheidel
Research focuses on ancient social and economic history, with particular emphasis on historical demography, slavery, and state formation- including Rome
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Professor Michael Shanks
Professor of Classical Archaeology - books written about Greece
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Professor Susan Stephens
Interests: include Greek oratory, Hellenistic literature and its later reception and the social context of the ancient Greek fiction writing.
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Associate Professor Jennifer Trimble
Interests: Art and archaeology of the Roman Empire
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COMMUNICATIONS

Professor Glen Frankel
He became London bureau chief in 1989, reporting on the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political demise of Margaret Thatcher. He is teaching courses in basic news reporting and writing, magazine journalism and human rights.
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Professor Henry Breitrose
He has worked for the NBC European Production Unit, BBC, Thames Television (London); he has been a consultant for the French National Television system
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Professor James S. Fishkin
Professor Fishkin and his collaborators have conducted Deliberative Polls in the US, Britain, Australia, Denmark, Bulgaria, China, Greece and other countries
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Professor Russell Berman berman@stanford.edu
Interests: German literature and politics of the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural and political relations between Europe and the United States
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Professor Amir Eshel eshel@stanford.edu
Interests: Postwar German culture, German-Jewish history and culture from the Enlightenment to the present, and Literary Theory. He is also involved in an interdisciplinary project on Berlin and the urban space.
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Professor Margaret Cohen
Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization
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Professor Roland Greene
Interests: Early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe
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CSSRE

Professor Sylvia Yanagisako
Interests: She is currently conducting an ethnographic study of transnational capitalism among Italian and Chinese textile and garment manufacturers in the Shanghai area of China and in Como, Milan and Prato, Italy.
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CULTURAL & SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Professor Ian Hodder
Publication include :The Domestication of Europe (Oxford 1990)
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ECONOMICS

Professor Avner Greif
Research Interests: European economic history: the historical development of economic institutions, their interrelations with political, social and cultural factors and their impact on economic growth.
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Professor Takeshi Amemiya
Research Interests: Econometric theory, Plato and Aristotle, ancient Greek economy.
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ENGLISH

Associate Professor Blakey Vermuele
Interests: 18th-century British literature; Romanticism; critical theory; cognitive approaches to literature; the history of the novel
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Assistant Professor Cristopher Rovee
Interests: 18th- & 19th-century British literature and culture; aesthetics and politics; photography and literature; theory of the museum; Keats; Wordsworth; Wilde
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Associate Professor Jennifer
Interests: Chaucer; Spenser; pre-18th Century women writers; Reformation English culture and writing; periodization of "medieval" and "Renaissance"; history of books and literary culture.
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Professor Franco Moretti
Pubblications include: Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998
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Assistant Professor Nicholas Jenkins
Interests:19th-, 20th- and 21st-century poetry in English; Modernism; British culture of the 1930s; contemporary British culture; literary and cultural theory; intersections of art and literature; literary cosmopolitanism, nationalism, internationalism; history of the book
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Professor Simone De Piero
Interests: modern Italian poetry
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Professor Terry Castle
Publications include: The English novel; Richardson; Defoe; Fielding; 18th-century women authors; 20th-century British women's writing;
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Associate Professor Ursula Heise
Specializes in contemporary American and European literature and literary theory
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Professor Seth Lerer
His research and teaching interests include medieval and Renaissance studies
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FRENCH & ITALIAN

Professor Carolyn Springer
Interests: 19th century Italian literature and cultural history; lyric poetry; gender studies; Renaissance visual culture; history of landscape
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Professor Cecile Alduy
Interests: French poetry and poetics, French Renaissance literature, contemporary poetry, concepts of self and nation
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Professor Dan Eldelstein
Interests: The French Revolution and the Terror; Natural Right, Republicanism, Reform in 17th and 18th centuries; Literature and Political Philosophy; The "Super-Enlightenment"
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Professor Elisabeth Mudimbe Boyi
Interests: 20th century French literature and Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean; contacts of cultures, travel writing, history and memory in literature
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Professor Gumbrecht
Interests: Medieval "literature" and culture; French and European Enlightenment;19th century novel;19th century philosophy; 20th century philosophy,media, and popular culture
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Professor Jean- Marie Apostolides
Interests: Classical French literature (17th and 18th centuries); Avant-garde artistic movements: Dada, surrealism, situationist international; iconomie, literary theory and Francophone literature
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Professor Jean- Pierre Dupuy
Interests: Cultural theory; social and political philosophy, the cognitive sciences, the epistemology of the social sciences, and the relationship of current critical theory to logical and scientific thinking. Professor by courtesy of Political Science
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Professor Jeffery T. Schnapp
Interests: 12th-13th century Romance literatures; Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch; the material history of literature from antiquity to the present; literature, architecture, and the visual arts during Italy’s fascist decades; Franco-Italian cultural relations 1800-1970; the cultural history of modern materials; the cultural history of graphics and industrial design; digital iterations of historical scholarship; micro-history/macro-history hybridization
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Professor Joshua Landy
Interests: Philosophical literature (Proust, Beckett); literary philosophy (Plato, Montaigne); philosophy of literature (Nietzsche, ethical criticism, narrative theories of selfhood); Symbolist poetry (Mallarmé); the first-person novel
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Professor Kathy Richman
Interests: 19th and 20th century French and Francophone literatures, theory and history; Francophone novels from sub-Saharan Africa and the Antilles

Professor Laura Wittman
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature, culture and film; sacred and society in the works of Pasolini and Bataille, Recent courses include:Philosophy and Poetry in Twentieth Century French and Italian Theory
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Emeritus Faculty Mark Bertrand
Interests: 19th and 20th century Parisian culture; contemporary novel and film
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Professor Michel Serres
Current courses: FRENLIT 293A Topics in French Literature and Society (Winter), FRENLIT 293B Topics in French Literature and Society (Spring)
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Professor Robert Harrison
Interests: The Italian Lyric; Dante; Renaissance Humanism; Michelangelo; Vico and the Baroque; Phenomenology; Literary Theory; Pirandello
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GERMAN

Professor Elizabeth Bernhardt
Teaches both Undergraduate and Graduate courses: German Studies 001, German Studies 002, The Learning of German as a Second Language,The Learning of Second Languages
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Assistant Professor Charitini Douvaldzi
Interests: 18th to 20th century German literature and culture
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Assistant Professor Marton Dornbach
Interests: German Idealism and Romanticism
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Professor Orrin W. Robinson
Interests: Historical Germanic and German linguistics, Old High German Syntax, German dialectology, Modern German phonology
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Professor Russell Berman
Interests: German literature and politics of the 19th and 20th century
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Professor Ted M. Andersson
Interests: Germanic, especially Scandinavian, Medieval Literature
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HISTORY

Associate Professor Amir Weiner
Research concerns Soviet history
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Professor Aron Rodrigue
Research Interests include: The Jews of Modern France
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Professor Keith M. Baker
Publications include several books on: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
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Professor Caroline Lougee Chappell
Courses taught include: Social History of Early Modern Europe, Ancien Regime France, Core Colloquium in European History
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Assistant Professor David Como
Research Interests include: English Revolution
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Associate Professor James P. Daughton
Courses taught include: Europe and the Modern World, Cultures of Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe, The History and Legacy of French Imperialism, 1830-Present
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Professor David Holloway
Research Interests include: The Soviet Union in World Politics
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Professor Tamar Herzog
Work centers on the relationship between Spain and Spanish America
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Professor James J. Sheehan
Courses taught include: The Second World War in Europe and America
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Assistant Professor Kathryn Miller
Courses taught include: Medieval Spain: The land of three religions
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Professor Nancy Kollman
Courses taught include: Early Modern Russia, 1400-1800, Aristocracies and Absolutism: Early Modern Eastern Europe, 1400-1800
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Professor Londa Schiebinger
Her historical research currently focuses on eighteenth-century colonial science.Courses taught include: The History of Women and Gender in Science
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Professor Norman Naimark
Professor in East European Studies
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Professor Paul Robinson
Courses taught inlcude: History 136A: European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century, From Romanticism to Modernism, History 136B: European Thought and Culture in the 20th Century
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Emeritus, Faculty Paul Seaver
Professor of Early Modern English History
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Professor Paula Findlen
Courses taught inlcude: The Rise and Fall of Europe (IHUM), Power, Art and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy
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Professor Emeritus Peter Stansky
Courses taught include: Modern Britain, Exploring Modern Britain through Documents and Images held at Stanford
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Professor Phillippe Buc
Courses taught include: Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500
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Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Research interest include: Modern British cultural and political history, colonialism and imperialism, the experience and practice of war, the history of humanitarianism, the history of the state and institutions of government, arms trade, political economy of empire, legal history
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Assistant Professor Robert Crews
Research interest include: The Russian empire, Central Asia, the Caucasus; Russia in Iran and Afghanistan
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Professor Richard Roberts
Publications include: Two World of Cotton: French Colonialism and the Regional Economy of the French Soudan,
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Professor Steve J. Zipperstein
Research interest inlcude: Russian and East European Jewish History
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Assistant Professor Laura Patricia Stokes
Research interest include: Early Modern Europe (religion, witchcraft)
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HUMAN BIOLOGY

Emeritus, Faculty Herant Katchadourian
Courses taught include: Erotic Art and Literature in 18th-Century France (Same as OSPPARIS 52)
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LAW

Professor Allen S. Weiner
A seasoned international lawyer and a research affiliate of the European Forum
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Professor Ronald J. Gilson
Professor Gilson is a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute
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Professor Gerhard Casper
A member of the board of trustees of the Central European University in Budapest and the American Academy in Berlin
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Professor/ Emeritus John Henry Merryman
Publications include: The Civil Law Tradition: An Introduction to the Legal Systems of Western Europe and Latin America, 2nd ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1985.

Professor Paul Goldstein
A visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and teaches regularly on the masters faculty of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center

Professor Thomas C. Heller
A visiting professor at the European University Institute
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LINGUISTICS

Professor Peter Sells
Publications include: Structure, Alignment and Optimality in Swedish

MUSIC

Professor, Emeritus Albert Cohen
French music of the 17th and 18th centuries
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Professor George Barth
Appearances as recitalist, as soloist with orchestra, and as musicologist throughout the U.S. and Central Europe
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Emeritus, Faculty George Houle
Publications include: A Study in Performance Practice, Le Ballet des Facheux, Beauchamp's Music for Molière's Comedy

Associate Professor Heather Hadlock
Special fields: 18th- and 19th-century French and Italian opera; music and literature; feminist criticism and gender studies;
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Professor Karol Berger
Austro-German music from 1700 to 1900
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Professor Stephen Hinton
H&S Dean's Office
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Associate Professor Thomas Grey
Publications include: Music and German Identity

Associate Professor William Mahrt
Special fields: theory and performance of Medieval and Renaissance music, Medieval studies
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PHILOSOPHY

Associate Professor Christopher J. Bobonich
Ancient Greek Philosophy
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Asisstant Professor Nadeem Hussain
Philosophy of action, 19th century German philosophy
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Associate Professor R. Lanier Anderson
History of late modern philosophy, especially Kant, Nietzsche, neo-Kantianism, 19th century philosophy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE

Professor David Brady
His research focuses on the ties between elections, institutions (especially legislatures) and public policies. This work includes studies of American political history and comparitive studies of Britain
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Assisstant Professor Karen Long Jusko
Research Interests: The Political Representation of the Poor
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Professor David Laitin
Publications include: Identity in Formation: the Russian-speaking Populations in the Near Abroad
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Associate Professor Isabela Mares
Research Interests: West European Politics
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Professor Michael Mcfaul
Research includes: Russian Politics
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Professor Josiah Ober
Research includes: Athenian democracy and Greek political thought

Associate Professor Jonathan Rodden
Field of interest: Comparative politics
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RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Associate Professor Brent Sockness
Interests: Christian thought in Europe since the 17th century, German Protestant theology and ethics in the 19th century and its interaction with philosophy, Schleiermacher.
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SLAVIC DEPARTMENT

Professor Lazar Fleishman
Interests: Russian avant-garde poetry and art; Russian-Jewish, Russian-Baltic and Russian-Polish cultural relationships; poetics; and archival research
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Associate Professor Monika Greenleaf
Interests: Catherine the Great, the poetics of Empire and subjectivity, Pushkin and Romanticism, Pushkin and the modernists, comic prose of Gogol, Tsvetaeva, and Nabokov, visual art, the novel
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Professor Gregory Freidin
Interests: Modern Russian literature;intersection of culture and politics in Russia; the Russian-Jewish nexus; Russian and European intellectual history
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Professor Joseph Frank
Publications include: Through the Russian Prism
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Associate Professor Gabriella Safran
Interests: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism
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Professor Richard D. Schupbach
Interests: The interaction of styles in the Russian language;contemporary Russian vocabulary
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SOCIOLOGY

Professor Nancy B. Tuma
Research: With the support of the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation, and with previous support from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, she is collecting and analyzing longitudinal data from young adults in eight post-Soviet countries.
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SPANISH & PORTUGUESE

Professor Michael P. Predmore
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Peninsula Spanish literature; modern trends and developments in early 20th century Spanish poetry
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Professor Joan Resina
Interests: Modern and contemporary European narrative, Literary Theory
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Assistant Professor Lisa Surwillo
Professor Surwillo teaches courses on Iberian literature, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Spanish theater
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