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, PhD Candidate in History at Stanford and 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"
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)