Welcome to the Historical Social Science Workshop at Stanford!
We invite papers from across the social sciences that engage with historical subjects or rely on historical data, broadly defined. To foster a thriving intellectual environment, we offer two presentation formats tailored to different goals. Participants may either present a full paper for the entire hour or use half the workshop time to brainstorm an idea, dataset, or challenge in an ongoing project.
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Spring Quarter
May 11: Demitri Kortukov, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama, “Perestroika to Perdition: Governance, Elections, and the End of the USSR”
May 26 [Tuesday]: Guillaume Blanc, Assistant Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, “The Making of France”
June 1: Mi Liu, Predoctoral Research Fellow at SIEPR, TBA; Natalia Vasilenok, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, “Was Weber Right?”
Past Meetings
April 27: Luis Bosshart, Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, “Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The ‘Ordinary Men’ of the Nazi Party”
April 13: Tom Buchot, PhD student in Economics at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, “Television and the Nationalization of Politics”