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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Co-organizers: Vicky Fouka, Natalia Vasilenok
Spring Quarter
June 1: Mi Liu, Predoctoral Research Fellow at SIEPR, “Outsourcing the State to the Nation”; Natalia Vasilenok, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, “Was Weber Right?”
May 26 [Tuesday]: Guillaume Blanc, Assistant Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, “The Making of France”
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”
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”
Winter Quarter
March 9: Juan David Torres, PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford, “Nuns”
February 23: Vladimir Novikov, PhD Student in Political Science at Stanford, “Nations of the Empire: The Effects of National Policy in the Early Soviet Union”; Jensen Ahokovi, Predoctoral Research Fellow at SIEPR, “Ethnic Enclaves and the Burning of a Chinatown”
February 9: Kyra Frye, PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford, “Forced Town Formation and Long-Run Growth Patterns: Evidence from the Peruvian Reducciones”
Fall Quarter
December 1: Juan David Torres, PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford, “Social Learning and Technological Change: American Agricultural Fairs”
November 17: Mateo Uribe-Castro, Assistant Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, “Smithian State Formation: Taxation and Inequality”
October 27: Andrea Matranga, University of Torino, “What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? Water infrastructure and Cultural Diffusion”
October 20: Dominic Cruz Bustillos, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, “State Security Services and Information”
October 6: Alvaro Calderon, PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford, “Political Effects of Infrastructure”