Co-organizers: Vicky Fouka, Natalia Vasilenok
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"
Co-organizers: Vicky Fouka, Emily Russell, Natalia Vasilenok
Spring Quarter
June 2:
Hannah Kazis-Taylor, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Princeton, "War or Peace: Civilian Attitudes Toward Conflict Resolution"
Roxanne Rahnama, Provostial Fellow and Lecturer in Political Science at Stanford, "Stand by Your Man: Emasculation of Men and the Making of Conservative Women’s Groups"
May 19: Simone Paci, Lecturer in Political Science at Stanford, "Women’s Empowerment and Patriarchal Backlash"
May 12: Daniel Urquijo, PhD Candidate in Political Science at the European University Institute, "Preaching Progress: White Clergy and Support for Civil Rights"
April 28: Sierra Nota, Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, "The July 1991 Gorbachev–Kohl Summit in Kyiv and its Role in the Soviet Collapse"
April 14:
Sebastian Łucek, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Explaining Support for Anti-Untouchability Legislation in Colonial India"
Johannes Stupperich, PhD Student in Political Science at Stanford, "Organizational Structure and Purges in Autocracies" (with Justin Braun and Vladimir Novikov)
April 7: Natasha Patel, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "The Politics of Personal Transformation in the US Christian Nationalist Movement"
Winter Quarter
March 10: Alvaro Calderon, PhD Candidate in Economics at Stanford, "Market Access and Conflict"
February 24: Ashrakat Elshehawy, Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center, "Religious Minorities and Public Service Provision" (co-authored with Mohamed Saleh)
February 13: Igor Kolesnikov, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Berkley, "Capturing the State: Decentralization and Elite Representation in the Russian Bureaucracy" (co-authored with Otto Kienitz)
January 27: Denis Tchaouchev, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Technological Change and Conflict: Evidence from Medieval Europe"
Fall Quarter
December 5:
Sunny Li, PhD Student in Political Science at Stanford, "A Model of Imperial Machinery"
Vladimir Novikov, PhD Student in Political Science at Stanford, "Spreading Insurgency: Industrial Development and the Russian October Revolution" (co-authored with Igor Kolesnikov)
November 21: Vladimir Avetian, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University Paris-Dauphine, "Ink and Ire: The Revolutionary Impact of Russian Literature" (co-authored with Sultan Mehmood)
October 17: Taiwo Mustafa, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Outgroup Men and Retaliatory Spirals"
October 3:
Denis Tchaouchev, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Fatalities in WWI and Taxation"
Natalia Vasilenok, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Transportation Canals and State Building"
Co-organizers: Vicky Fouka, Emily Russell, Natalia Vasilenok
Spring Quarter
June 6: Katja Bergonzoli, PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Lausanne, "Domestic Violence in India"
May 16:
Volha Charnysh, Associate Professor of Political Science at the MIT and National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, "American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-22"
Federica Braccioli, Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, "The Persistence of the Sicilian Mafia"
May 9: Gedeon Lim, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Hong Kong, "Ethnic Segregation and Politics: Evidence from Malaysia"
April 25: Benjamin Tremblay-Auger, PhD Candidate at Stanford GSB, "Institutions and Rapid Religious Reversals: Understanding the Secularization of Quebec"
April 18: Hans-Joachim Voth, UBS Foundation Professor of Economics, University of Zurich, "Images, Meaning, and High-Dimensional Data: AI Meets History"
April 11: Natalia Vasilenok, PhD Candidate in Political Science at Stanford, "Establishing a Parliament: the Political Economy of Elections in Late Imperial Russia" (with Eugenia Nazrullaeva)