Affiliated Faculty

*Listed in multiple departments.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Professor Ian Hodder
Dunlevie Family Professor
Interests: Archaeological theory and process, the excavation of the 9,000 year-old Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük.

Professor Richard G. Klein
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Biology
Interests: Paleoanthropology; Africa, Europe.

Professor Sylvia Yanagisako
Interests: Archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology.

ART AND ART HISTORY

Associate Professor Maria Gough
Interests: Modern and Contemporary art with a particular emphasis on the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes, French modernism, and Weimar Germany.

Assistant Professor Morten Steen Hansen
Interests: Renaissance art.

Assistant Professor Pavle Levi
Interests: European cinema with an emphasis on Eastern Europe, aesthetics and ideology, encounters between film theory and practice, and psychoanalytic theory of the media.

Professor Michael J. Marrinan
Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
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.

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.

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.

Professor Bryan J. Wolf
Jeanette and William Hayden Jones Professor in American Art and Culture and Professor, by courtesy, of English
Interests: Seventeenth-century Dutch art.

CLASSICS

Professor Alessandro Barchiesi
Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies
Interests: Greek poetry in Italy, Ovid and ancient Rome, ancient poetry.

Assistant Professor Giovanna Ceserani
Interests: Ancient Greece. She also participates as research director in the AREA project (Archives for European Archaeology).

Professor Richard P. Martin
Anthony E. and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics
Interests: Greek lyric in relation to art and music, Greek myth and religion.

Professor Emeritus Marsh H. McCall Jr.
Interests: Greek tragedy, rhetoric, literary criticism, textual criticism.

Professor Ian Morris
Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor in Classics
Interests: Social, economic, cultural history of Ancient Greece; Mediterranean Iron Age; archaeology, social revolution of eighth century B.C. in the Mediterranean.

Professor Reviel Netz
Professor, by courtesy, of Philosophy and History
Interests: History of pre-modern mathematics, cognitive practices (i.e. visual culture, history of the book, literacy and numeracy).

*Professor Josiah Ober
Professor of Political Science and by courtesy, of Philosophy
Interests: Athenian democracy and Greek political thought.

Associate Professor Grant Parker
Interests: Latin, as well as topics linked to the exotic and geographic elements of Roman imperial culture.

Associate Professor (Teaching) Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
Interests: Greek Aesthetics, lyric as a verbal and as a visual genre, dance in Greek antiquity.

Professor Rush Rehm
Interests: Greek drama and tragedy, directing and acting, anti-war and anti-imperialist actions.

*Professor Richard P. Saller
Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of History
Interests: Roman social and economic history, in particular patronage relations, the family, and the imperial economy.

Professor Walter Scheidel
Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor, by courtesy, of History
Interests: Ancient social and economic history, with particular emphasis on historical demography, slavery, and state formation- including Rome.

Professor Michael Shanks
Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Archaeology
Interests: Archaeology, archaeography, chorography, pragmatogony, Roman borders of the north of England and Scotland, Hadrian’s Wall.

Professor Susan Stephens
Interests: Greek oratory, Hellenistic literature and its later reception and the social context of the ancient Greek fiction writing.

Associate Professor Jennifer Trimble
Interests: Art and archaeology of the Roman Empire, with a focus on constructions and receptions of visual culture.

COMMUNICATIONS

Professor Emeritus Henry Breitrose
Interests: Film aesthetics and criticism, experimental attitude change, non-verbal communication, and intellectual history of the documentary idea.

Professor James S. Fishkin
Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
Interests: Deliberative democracy.

Professor Glenn Frankel
Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Journalism
Interests: Journalism- reporting, editing, foreign correspondence.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

*Professor Russell Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Professor in German Studies, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Interests: German literature and politics of the 19th and 20th centuries; cultural and political relations between Europe and the United States.

Professor Margaret Cohen
Andrew B. Hammond Professor in French Language, Literature, and Civilization and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
Interests: The novel, literary theory, literature and culture of trans-Atlantic modernity, materialist and feminist paradigms of reading, the intersection of literary and visual forms.

*Professor Amir Eshel
Professor of German Studies and, by courtesy, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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.

*Professor Roland Greene
Professor of English and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Interests: Early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe.

*Professor Franco Moretti
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor; Professor of English; and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Interests: Cultural geography; theory of the novel and of tragedy; interdisciplinary models.

*Professor Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
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.

ECONOMICS

Professor Emeritus Takeshi Amemiya
Edward Ames Edmonds Professor of Economics
Interests: Econometric theory, Plato and Aristotle, ancient Greek economy.

Professor Avner Greif
Bowman Family Endowed Professor in Humanities and Sciences; Professor, by courtesy, of History;  and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and, by courtesy, of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy 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.

ENGLISH

Professor Terry Castle
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities
Interests: The English novel; Richardson; Defoe; Fielding; 18^th-century women authors; 20^th-century British women’s writing; the First World War; feminist theory; Freud; gay and lesbian literature.

*Professor Roland Greene
Professor of Comparative Literature and, by courtesy, of Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Interests: Early modern literatures of England, Latin Europe.

Associate Professor Ursula Heise
Interests:  20^th-century fiction and poetry; theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization; ecocriticsm; literature and biology/ ecology; literature and media; urban studies; science fiction.

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.

Professor Seth Lerer

*Professor Franco Moretti
Interests: Cultural geography; theory of the novel and of tragedy; interdisciplinary models.
Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature; and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies

Professor Simone Di Piero
Interests: Modern painting and photography; Basil Bunting; William Carlos Williams.

Associate Professor Jennifer Summit
Interests: Chaucer, Spenser, pre-18th Century women writers, Reformation English culture and writing, periodization of "medieval" and "Renaissance," history of books, and literary culture.

Assistant Professor Christopher Rovee
Interests: 18th- & 19th-century British literature and culture, aesthetics and politics, photography and literature, theory of the museum, Keats, Wordsworth, and Wilde.

Associate Professor Blakey Vermeule
Interests: 18th-century British literature, Romanticism, critical theory, cognitive approaches to literature, the history of the novel.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN

Assistant Professor Cecile Alduy
Interests: French poetry and poetics, French Renaissance literature, contemporary poetry, concepts of self and nation.

Professor Jean- Marie Apostolides
William H. Bonsall Professor of French and Professor of Drama
Interests: Classical French literature (17th and 18th centuries); Avant-garde artistic movements: Dada, surrealism, situationist international; iconomie, literary theory and Francophone literature.

Emeritus Professor Marc Bertrand
Interests: 19th and 20th century Parisian culture and contemporary novel and film.

Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
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.

Assistant Professor Dan Edelstein
Interests: The French Revolution and the Terror; Natural Right, Republicanism, Reform in 17th and 18th centuries; Literature and Political Philosophy; The "Super-Enlightenment."

Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Albert Guerard Professor of Literature
Interests: Medieval "literature" and culture; French and European Enlightenment;19th century novel;19th century philosophy; 20th century philosophy, media, and popular culture.

Professor Robert Harrison
Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature
Interests: The Italian Lyric, Dante, Renaissance Humanism, Michelangelo, Vico and the Baroque, Phenomenology, Literary Theory, Pirandello.

Associate Professor Joshua Landy
Associate Professor, by courtesy, of English
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.

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.

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 Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature; Professor of Comparative Literature; and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
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.

Professor Michel Serres
Interests: Philosophy, history of ideas, and literature.

Associate Professor Carolyn Springer
Interests: 19th century Italian literature and cultural history, lyric poetry, gender studies, Renaissance visual culture, history of landscape.

Assistant Professor Laura Wittman
Interests: Modern and contemporary literature, culture and film; sacred and society in the works of Pasolini and Bataille.

GERMAN

Emeritus Professor Ted M. Andersson
Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities
Interests: Germanic, especially Scandinavian, Medieval Literature.

*Professor Russell Berman
Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Interests: German literature and politics of the 19th and 20th century.

Assistant Professor Marton Dornbach
Interests: German Idealism and Romanticism.

Assistant Professor Charitini Douvaldzi
Interests: 18th to 20th century German literature and culture.

*Professor Amir Eshel
Professor of Comparative Literature and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
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.

Professor Elizabeth Bernhardt-Kamil
Interests: Second-language reading with a particular emphasis on the reading of second-language literature.

Professor Orrin W. Robinson
Professor, by courtesy, of Linguistics
Interests: Historical Germanic and German linguistics, Old High German Syntax, German dialectology, Modern German phonology.

HISTORY

Professor Keith M. Baker
J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Humanities; Jean-Paul Gimon Director of the France-Stanford Center; and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
Interest: French politics.

Professor Philippe Buc
Co-Director of the Center for European Studies
Interests: Religion and power in pre-modern western Europe (2^nd to 14^th centuries of the Common Era)
Courses taught include: Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500.

Professor Carolyn Lougee Chappell
Frances and Charles Field Professor in History
Interests: Huguenot emigration at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, autobiography, education of girls in Early Modern France.

Associate Professor David Como
Interests: Puritanism, politics, English Revolution, history of print.

Assistant Professor James P. Daughton
Interests: Modern Europe; European imperialism with a particular interest in political, cultural, and social history.

Professor Paula Findlen
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of History and Professor, by courtesy, of French and Italian
Interests: Early history of science and medicine; Italian Renaissance (politics, economics, and culture); the relations between gender, culture, and knowledge.

Professor Tamar Herzog
Interests: The relationship between Spain and Spanish America.

*Professor David Holloway
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Professor of Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Interests: The Soviet Union in World Politics.

Professor Nancy Kollmann
William H. Bonsall Professor in History
Interests: Intersection of political practice and social values in early modern Russia, legal culture in Muscovy and 18^th-century Russia,”Petrine revolution,” mechanisms of social integration and stability in early modern Russia, classics of Russian historiography regarding Russia before Peter I.

Assistant Professor Kathryn Miller
Interests: Medieval science and medical knowledge, medieval commerce and diplomacy.

Professor Norman Naimark
Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies; Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies; and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution
Interests: Modern East European, Balkan, and Russian history, the historical genocide in the 20^th century and on postwar Soviet policy in Europe.

Professor Richard Roberts
Director of the Center for African Studies
Interests: Social history of life during the 25 years surrounding French conquest of West Africa, the effects of colonial conquest and colonial rule.

Emeritus Professor Paul Robinson
Richard W. Lyman Professor in the Humanities
Interests: The history of European (and sometimes American) thought in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, psychoanalysis, history of ideas about human sexuality, the connection between intellectual history and the history of opera.

Professor Aron Rodrigue
Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities, Eva Chernov Lokey Professor in Jewish Studies, Director of the Stanford Humanities Center, and the Director of the Mediterranean Studies Forum
Interests: Modern Jewish history, history and culture of Sephardic Jews, Jews of Modern France, the Ottoman Empire.

*Professor Richard P. Saller
Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Classics
Interests: Roman social and economic history, in particular patronage relations, the family, and the imperial economy.

Assistant Professor Priya Satia
Interests: 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.

Professor Londa Schiebinger
John L. Hinds Professor in the History of Science
Interests: Eighteenth-century colonial science.

Emeritus Professor Paul Seaver
Interests: Early modern English history.

Emeritus Professor James J. Sheehan
Dickason Professor in the Humanities
Interests: Contemporary European philosophy and its relation to religious questions, with particular interests in Heidegger and Roman Catholicism.

Emeritus Professor Peter Stansky
Frances and Charles Field Professor of History
Interests: Modern British history.

Assistant Professor Laura Patricia Stokes
Interests: Early Modern Europe (religion, witchcraft).

Associate Professor Amir Weiner
Co-Director of the Center for European Studies
Interests: Soviet history with an emphasis on the interaction between totalitarian politics, ideology, nationality and society.

Professor Steve J. Zipperstein
The Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History
Interests: Russian and East European Jewish History.

HUMAN BIOLOGY 

Emeritus Professor Herant Katchadourian
Interests: Erotic Art and Literature in 18th-Century France.

LAW

Professor Gerhard Casper
President Emeritus, Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, Professor of Law, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Interests: Comparative study of democracy and rule of law, constitutional history, constitutional law.

Professor Ronald J. Gilson
Charles J. Meyers Professor in Law and Business
Interests: Corporate finance and acquisitions, U.S. and comparative corporate governance and venture capital.

Professor Paul Goldstein
Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law
Interests: Copyright law, intellectual property (patents, trademarks, copyrights).

Emeritus Professor Thomas C. Heller
Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies
Interests: Energy law and regulation, environmental and natural resources law, international law, international law and economy, law and development.

Emeritus Professor John Henry Merryman
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law
Interests: Art and cultural property law, comparative law.

Professor Allen S. Weiner
Interests: International and national security law, the law of war, international conflict resolution, international criminal law (including transitional justice).

LINGUISTCS

Professor Peter Sells

MUSIC

Professor George Barth
Interests: Piano and fortepiano, 18^th- through 20^th-century performance practice, rhetoric and music, the piano music of Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Brahms, and Ives.

Professor Karol Berger
Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Interests: Austro-German music from 1700 to 1900.

Emeritus Professor Albert Cohen
William H. Bonsall Professor of Music
Interests: French music of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Professor Thomas Grey
Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Interests: Wagner, 19^th-century opera, history of musical aesthetics and criticism, Romantic music and visual culture.

Associate Professor Heather Hadlock
Interests: 18th- and 19th-century French and Italian opera; music and literature; feminist criticism and gender studies.

Professor Stephen Hinton
Senior Associate Dean in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies
Interests: Aesthetics, history of theory, music of Hindemith, Weill, and Beethoven.

Emeritus Professor George Houle
Interests: Aesthetics, history of theory, music of Hindemith, Weill, and Beethoven.

Associate Professor William Mahrt
Interests: Theory and performance of Medieval and Renaissance music, Medieval studies.

PHILOSOPHY

Associate Professor R. Lanier Anderson
Interests: History of late modern philosophy, especially Kant, Nietzsche, neo-Kantianism, 19th century philosophy.

Associate Professor Christopher J. Bobonich
Professor, by courtesy, of Classics
Interests: Ancient Greek Philosophy.

Assistant Professor Nadeem Hussain
Interests: Philosophy of action, 19th century German philosophy.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Professor David Brady
Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor in Leadership Values and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy, and the Freeman Institute for International Studies
Interests: The ties between elections, institutions (especially legislatures) and public policies. This work includes studies of American political history and comparative studies of Britain.

*Professor David Holloway
Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Interests: The Soviet Union in World Politics.

Assistant Professor Karen Long Jusko
Interests: The political representation of the poor.

Professor David Laitin
James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Interests: Comparative politics, political culture, language, religion, national identities, ethnic conflict.

Associate Professor Isabela Mares
Interests: Western European Politics.

Professor Michael McFaul
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Interests: Russian politics.

*Professor Josiah Ober
Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, of Philosophy
Interests: Athenian democracy and Greek political thought.

Associate Professor Jonathan Rodden
Interests: Comparative politics.

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.

SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Professor Lazar Fleishman
Interests: Russian avant-garde poetry and art; Russian-Jewish, Russian-Baltic and Russian-Polish cultural relationships; poetics; and archival research.

Emeritus Professor Joseph Frank
Interests: Dostoevsky and the literature concerning Dostoevsky, as well as in the work of Mikhal Bakhtin, one of Dostoevsky’s major interpreters.

Professor Gregory Freidin
Interests: Modern Russian literature;intersection of culture and politics in Russia; the Russian-Jewish nexus; Russian and European intellectual history.

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.

Associate Professor Gabriella Safran
Associate Professor, by courtesy, of German Studies and Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Interests: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian literature; Polish literature; Yiddish literature; Jewish Studies; folklore; Realism.

Emeritus Professor Richard D. Schupbach
Interests: The interaction of styles in the Russian language; contemporary Russian vocabulary.

SOCIOLOGY

Professor Nancy B. Tuma
Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution
Interests: Life careers, social stratification, quantitative methods for studying change.

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE

Professor Michael P. Predmore
Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Peninsula Spanish literature; modern trends and developments in early 20th century Spanish poetry.

Professor Joan Ramon Resina
Interests: Modern and contemporary European narrative, Literary Theory.

Assistant Professor Lisa Surwillo
Interests: Iberian literature, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century Spanish theater.