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Faculty Awards

Awards and honors earned by H&S faculty

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Seven faculty members awarded 2024-25 H&S dean's teaching awards

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Susan Clark, Grant Rotskoff win NSF CAREER awards

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Jonthan Rodden named 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Lerone A .Martin wins James W. C. Pennington Award

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Stanford researchers honored with 2025 Breakthrough prizes

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Paul N. Edwards receives 2025 Society for Social Studies of Science award

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Gretchen Daily named American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow

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Nicholas Jenkins wins Warren-Brooks Award

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Mark Applebaum receives American Academy of Arts and Letters award

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Chang-rae Lee elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

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Barnabas Daru named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

Trithep Devakul named 2025 Sloan Research Fellow

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Mark Duggan receives Stanford's 2025 Roland volunteer service prize

Kabir Peay elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

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Leonard Susskind wins 2025 Galileo Medal

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Stanford physicist aims to create materials for next-generation superconductors

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Steven Block wins 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Four H&S scientists named 2025 PECASE winners

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Liqun Luo wins National Academy of Sciences neuroscience award

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Early-career Stanford researchers honored for their cutting-edge studies in physics and social economics

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Margaret Cohen receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

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Susan Clark receives American Astronomical Society prize

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Terry Karl receives inaugural human rights award

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Benjamin Good receives inaugural biological physics prize

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James Gross receives 2025 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology

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Debra Satz awarded Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Professorship

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Steven Chu receives inaugural lifetime achievement award

Vedika Khemani wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences

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Arun Chandrasekhar wins 2024 Infosys Prize in Economics

Russell Poldrack

Russell Poldrack receives 2024 KFJ Award

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Steven Kivelson receives 2025 American Physical Society prize

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Jeongwan Haah receives 2025 Quantum Computing Award

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Risa Wechsler and Susan Clark and KIPAC team awarded $5M to study the Milky Way

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Jorge Ramos named California Academy of Sciences fellow

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Dafna Zur receives Korean Order of Culture Merit

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Steven Chu elected inaugural fellow of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering

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Adrien Bilal receives 2024 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs

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Christopher O. Barnes receives Biophysical Society early career award

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Jay McClelland receives 2024 Golden Goose Award

Tony Heinz receives national award from the American Chemical Society

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Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant

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Monika Schleier-Smith named 2024 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

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Asad L. Asad receives 2023 C. Wright Mills Award

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Eve Clark named 2024 British Academy fellow

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Kathryn Olivarius receives 2024 Dan David Prize

Marcus Feldman receives lifetime achievement award from the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Steven Chu awarded 2024 AIP Karl Compton Medal

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Grant Rotskoff wins 2024 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award

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Paul Wender wins Royal Society of Chemistry prize

Andrei Linde awarded 2024 Isaac Pomeranchuk Prize

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Renata Kallosh to receive 2024 Oskar Klein medal

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Seven faculty members awarded 2023-24 H&S dean's teaching awards

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Shelley Correll elected American Sociological Association president

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Wendy Salkin honored with Phi Beta Kappa teaching excellence award

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Richard Meyer receives 2023 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award

Seven faculty elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Stanford faculty named AAAS Fellows

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Rachel Jean-Baptiste awarded 2024 David H. Pinkney Prize

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Joel Cabrita receives National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences book award

Two Stanford scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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Steven Boxer receives 2024 Ellis R. Lippincott Award

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Yakov Eliashberg receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Rodolfo Dirzo receives 2024 Frontiers of Knowledge Award

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Two Stanford physicists win grants for ‘tabletop’ experiments with big implications

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Martha Cyert named a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Peter Stansky wins 2023 Peter Davison Award

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Josiah Ober receives 2023 Barry Prize

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Clayborne Carson honored with 2023 Freedom Award

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Surya Ganguli named to 2023 Schmidt Science Polymaths Program cohort

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Shelley Fisher Fishkin receives 2023 American Studies Association lifetime achievement award

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Physicist Harold Hwang wins McGroddy Prize for New Materials

Kathryn Olivarius awarded AHA Prize in American History

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Kristy Red-Horse elected to the National Academy of Medicine

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Steven Banik named 2023 Moore Inventor Fellow

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Stephen Shenker and Leonard Susskind awarded 2023 Dirac Medal

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Stanford-led collaboration to explore electrodynamics of neutron stars and black holes receives $8M in funding from Simons Foundation

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Russell Poldrack named 2023 British Academy fellow

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Steven Banik and Christopher O. Barnes named 2023 Pew Biomedical Scholars

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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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David O. Siegmund awarded 2023 C.R. and Bhargavi Rao Prize

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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

Lanier Anderson

R. Lanier Anderson elected board chair of American Philosophical Association

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Monika Schleier-Smith honored with 2023 Benjamin Franklin NextGen Award

Richard Zare wearing a mustard yellow shirt and tie standing under one of the arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Richard Zare awarded a 2023 Benjamin Franklin Medal

Matthew Sommer wearing a light-blue collared shirt standing under one of arcades on Stanford's Main Quad

Matthew Sommer awarded $60,000 grant from NEH

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Richard Roberts elected honorary fellow of American Society for Legal History

Rowan Dorin wearing glasses, a light-blue collared shirt, and a medium-blue blazer standing with arms crossed in front of columns along Stanford's Main Quad

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

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Books in Brief

Books by H&S faculty

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War, Race, and Culture by Gordon H. Chang, History

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Mathematical Properties of Population-Genetic Statistics by Noah A. Rosenberg, Biology

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Literature for the Masses by James Reichert, East Asian Languages and Cultures

Jay Hamilton with the cover of his book

You Got In! Now What? by James T. Hamilton, Communication

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The Cambridge Handbook of Implicit Bias and Racism by Jon Krosnick, Communication and Political Science

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Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity by Marcus Feldman, Biology

Photo of Caroline Winterer and cover of How the New World Became Old

How the New World Became Old by Caroline Winterer, History

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Against Constitutional Originalism by Jonathan Gienapp, History

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The Cancel Culture Panic by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

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A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour by Giovanna Ceserani, Classics

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Laws of the Spirit: Ritual, Mysticism, and the Commandments in Early Hasidism by Ariel Evan Mayse, Religious Studies

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The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England by Nicholas Jenkins, English

Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political Representation by Wendy Salkin, Philosophy

The cover of the book The Chinese Computer alongside a photo of its author, Thomas Mullaney

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age by Thomas Mullaney, History

The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City's Anexos by Angela Garcia, Anthropology

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In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States by Ana Raquel Minian, History

Image of the book The Patriarchal Political Order next to an image of its author, Soledad Artiz Prillaman

The Patriarchal Political Order by Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Political Science

Image of the book Measuring in the Renaissance next to an image of its author, Emanuele Lugli

Measuring in the Renaissance by Emanuele Lugli, Art and Art History

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Kurt Weills Musiktheater: Vom Songspiel zur American Opera by Stephen Hinton, Music

Image of Paul Phillips and the cover of the book The Devil Prefers Mozart

The Devil Prefers Mozart: On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993 by Anthony Burgess; edited by Paul Phillips, Music

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns, History

The cover of the book Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa with a black-and-white photo of French African people next to a photo of Rachel Jean-Baptiste wearing glasses and smiling

Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship by Rachel Jean-Baptiste, History and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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Defense Budgeting for a Safer World: The Experts Speak by Michael J. Boskin, Economics and The Hoover Institution

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The Ecology of Collective Behavior by Deborah M. Gordon, Biology

Photo of Jean-Pierre Dupuy and the cover of the book The War That Must Not Occur, which shows the book's title in white type on a black background

The War That Must Not Occur by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Cover of the book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures showing a Black man bent at the waist using a pickax to mine a rocky area.

Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht, History

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky, Biology

The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives co-authored by Josiah Ober, Political Science and Classics

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Post-Cinematic Bodies by Shane Denson, Art and Art History

The cover of the book We've Got You Covered: Reinventing American Health Care featuring a yellow umbrella with the medical symbol staff and snake as the handle, alongside a photo of co-author Liran Einav

We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care co-authored by Liran Einav, Economics

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The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards co-authored by Persi Diaconis, Statistics and Mathematics

Asad L. Asad wearing a white collared shirt and black sport coat standing in front of Stanford's Main Quad and the cover of his book, Engage & Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life

Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life by Asad L. Asad, Sociology

The cover of the book A Certain Justice and its author, Haiyan Lee wearing glasses and a light-purple turtleneck standing in front of Stanford's Main Quad

A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination by Haiyan Lee, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature

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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

Photo of author Joel Cabrita wearing a striped shirt and light-gray blazer in an academic office filled with books next to an image of the cover of Written Out

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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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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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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