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When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again by A. Van Jordan, English

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Awards and honors earned by H&S faculty

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Gordon H. Chang awarded 2023-24 research fellowship from The Huntington

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Lauren O’Connell receives 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

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Aron Rodrigue made honorary citizen of Greek city of Didymoteicho

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Gretchen Daily receives 2023 Eminent Ecologist Award

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Kathryn Gin Lum wins 2023 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award

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Kathryn Olivarius receives 2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Award

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Carolyn Bertozzi receives 2023 American Association for Cancer Research award

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R. Lanier Anderson elected board chair of American Philosophical Association

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Monika Schleier-Smith honored with 2023 Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award

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Richard Zare awarded a 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal

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Matthew Sommer awarded $60,000 grant from NEH

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Richard Roberts elected honorary fellow of American Society for Legal History

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Rowan Dorin awarded 2022 Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize

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Cover the book of poetry When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again with its author, A. Van Jordan wearing a white collared shirt

When I Waked, I Cried To Dream Again by A. Van Jordan, English

Ray Briggs wearing glasses and a blue-and-white checked shirt next to an image of the cover of their book What Even Is Gender?

What Even Is Gender? co-authored by R.A. Briggs, Philosophy

The cover of the book Sacred Foundations alongside a photo of its author, Anna Grzymala-Busse

Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymała-Busse, Political Science

Avidit Acharya and the cover of his book The Cartel System of States

The Cartel System of States: An Economic Theory of International Politics co-authored by Avidit Acharya, Political Science

The cover of the book The Greeks and the Rational and its author Josiah Ober

The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason by Josiah Ober, Political Science and Classics

The cover of the book Election Day and an image of its author, Emilee Booth Chapman

Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Emilee Booth Chapman, Political Science

Faculty member Michael Bratman and the cover of his book Shared and Institutional Agency

Shared and Institutional Agency: Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization by Michael E. Bratman, Philosophy

The cover of Bedouin Bureaucrats and photo of its author, Nora Barakat

Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire by Nora Elizabeth Barakat, History

Book cover of The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover alongside an image of its author, Lerone A. Martin wearing a blue suit , a patterned tie, and a green pocket square.

The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism by Lerone A. Martin, Religious Studies

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The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov, Art and Art History

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Knots, or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History

Four book covers from the children's series Words in My World to the left of a photo of author Nandi Sims

Words in My World series by Nandi Sims, Linguistics

The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky, History

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Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala by Joel Cabrita, History

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Life: A Journey Through Science and Politics by Paul R. Ehrlich, Biology

The red cover of the book Exponential Families in Theory and Practice with its author, Bradley Efron wearing a sky-blue collared shirt and standing in front of an archway on the Stanford campus

Exponential Families in Theory and Practice by Bradley Efron, Statistics and Biomedical Data Science

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Stanford Statisticians Tackle COVID-19

This stories series presents three studies in the Department of Statistics addressing the coronavirus outbreak using different approaches: tracking genetic mutations in the coronavirus, developing a more practical approach to predictive modelling, and designing clinical trials of promising new treatments.

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Is our universe one of many?

This five-part series tells the story of how theoretical physicists at Stanford helped develop the String Theory Landscape – and in the process sparked a fierce and still ongoing debate about what science is and what it should be.

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Ray Briggs wearing glasses and a blue-and-white checked shirt next to an image of the cover of their book What Even Is Gender?

What Even Is Gender? co-authored by R.A. Briggs, Philosophy

Gordon H. Chang wearing glasses, a bright-blue collared shirt, and a gray blazer

Gordon H. Chang awarded 2023-24 research fellowship from The Huntington

Lauren O'Connell wearing a black blouse and standing under an archway in one of the arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Lauren O’Connell receives 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Aron Rodrigue wearing glasses, a blue collared shirt, and a navy-blue blazer standing in one of the arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Aron Rodrigue made honorary citizen of Greek city of Didymoteicho

Jean-Marie Apostolidès wearing glasses, a hat, and a blue collared shirt with thin white stripes

Jean-Marie Apostolidès, literary scholar and dramatist, dies at 79

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Molly Schumer named to inaugural cohort of HHMI Freeman Hrabowski Scholars

Seven Stanford faculty elected to National Academy of Sciences

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A. Van Jordan, professor of English, on poetry, movies, and Einstein

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