Advisory Board

Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies, Professor of Environmental Social Sciences, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Department:
History Department, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections, Humanities Resource Group
Department:
Humanities Resource Group
Adan likes to say that his 30+ years as a librarian really started in El Paso when he discovered the public library as recent immigrant, long before his 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison (MLIS) graduate degree.

At Stanford his work has centered on acquiring and providing access to resources (primary and secondary, print and digital) covering a broad geographic area: Latin America, Spain, Portugal and the Latina/o, Latinx experience in the United States. Global LGBT issues are also part of Adan’s professional portfolio, and he administers a Facebook group for the Sexualities Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

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Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor
Department:
Anthropology
Website
Office hour sign up , Personal website
Thomas Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Anthropology. He founded and directed Stanford’s Center for South Asia from 2010 to 2017.

Hansen is an anthropologist of political life, ethno-religious identities, violence and urban life in South Asia and Southern Africa. He has multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative religion and contemporary urbanism.

Much of professor Hansen’s early fieldwork was done during the tumultuous and tense years in the beginning of the 1990s when conflicts between Hindu militants and Muslims defined national agendas and produced frequent violent clashes in the streets. Out...
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
Department:
Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Héctor Hoyos is a scholar of modern Latin American and comparative literature. He writes about ideological critiques of globalization in the post-1989 Latin American novel, the articulation of critical theory and new materialism in the region’s cultural production, and related topics. His current monograph in progress examines the works of Gabriel García Márquez from a law and humanities perspective.
Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Department:
History
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
A.B., Bryn Mawr College

Rachel Jean-Baptiste is a historian of 20th and 21st century French-speaking Central and West Africa and the Atlantic world. Her research interests include the histories of: marriage and family law; gender and sexuality; racial thought and multiracial identities; urban history; citizenship. Jean-Baptiste is currently researching the history of women, slavery, and urban history in Haiti and the French-speaking Atlantic world.
David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Professor of Oceans, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology
Department:
Oceans
Website
Micheli Lab website , Center for Ocean Solutions , Oceans Department , Hopkins Marine Station
Fiorenza Micheli is Chair of the Ocean Department, co-director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, and a marine ecologist at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, where she is the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science. Micheli’s research focuses on the processes shaping marine communities and coastal social-ecological systems, and incorporating this understanding in marine management and conservation. She investigates climatic impacts on marine ecosystems, particularly the impacts of hypoxia and ocean acidification on marine species, communities and fisheries, marine predators’ ecology and trophic cascades, the dynamics and sustainability of small-scale fisheries, and the design and function...
Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Professor, by courtesy, of Economics
Department:
Health Policy, FSI - CHP, SIEPR Operations
Website
Personal Home Page
Associate Professor of History
Department:
History Department
Website
https://www.anaraquelminian.com/
Ana Raquel Minian is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. Minian received a PhD in American Studies from Yale University. At Stanford University, Minian offers classes on Latinx history, immigration, histories of incarceration and detention, and modern Mexican history.

Minian's first book, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Harvard University Press, 2018) received the David Montgomery Award for the best book in labor and working-class history, given jointly by the Organization of American Historians and the Labor and Working-Class History Association; the Immigration and Ethnic History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Book Award for an early career scholar’s...