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bioBUDS (Building Up Developing Scientists)

Participating Department(s): Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biomedical Informatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Chemical and Systems Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Mathematics, Medical Scientist Training Program, Medicine, Microbiology & Immunology, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Neurobiology, Pediatrics
Contact: Taylar Hammond taylar@stanford.edu
Websitehttps://biobuds.sites.stanford.edu

bioBUDS presents an innovative opportunity for graduate students to practice and expand their STEM education toolkit before entering the workforce. bioBUDS facilitates community for education-interested graduate students to connect both professionally and personally and establishes scaffolded training and practice for graduate students interested in both undergraduate mentorship and leading self-designed courses. Specifically, we offer a flexible curriculum of peer-directed workshops for teaching mentorship, pedagogical skills, and course design. 

Bridge to Health Justice

Participating Department(s): Cancer Biology, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Medicine
Contact: Yiran Liu yiranliu@stanford.edu

The Bridge to Health Justice project aims to foster community-engaged learning and research surrounding the health impacts of incarceration. Specifically, we create opportunities for Stanford graduate and professional students across various departments to learn from, and together with, direct stakeholders and community leaders who are engaged in efforts to promote health for people impacted by the carceral system. These learning opportunities include, but are not limited to: seminars and discussion groups; co-creation of briefs, reports, and op-eds; collaborative, participatory research projects; and site visits to local organizations.

Cancer Biology Seminar Series

Participating Department(s): Cancer Biology
Contact: Griffin Hartmann griffinh@stanford.edu

Our seminar series enhances awareness of racial and social justice issues and improves representation within the Cancer Biology community through interdisciplinary seminars with particular focus on racial inequity in cancer incidence and mortality. By weaving seminars from postdoctoral trainees from diverse backgrounds and viewpoints into the current Cancer Biology seminar series and lunch discussions, we will broaden the research, role models and advice to which our students are exposed and provide a networking opportunity for the postdoctoral trainees.

Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Action Committee (ChemE GSAC)

Participating Department(s): Chemical Engineering
Contact: Gaurav Kamat gkamat@stanford.edu

We are Chemical Engineering students working on enriching the intellectual community and experience of the Stanford ChemE Graduate Student body. We organize events for mentorship, professional development, and social cohesion as well as programs that serve needs unaddressed by the department. These events include first and second year mentorship; qualifying exam preparation; advisor selection lunches; yearly convocation featuring later-stage PhD candidates, new faculty, and alumni speakers; career development sessions and workshops; and intra-/inter- departmental social mixers. ChemE GSAC also represents the voices of PhD and Masters students to work towards a better community in collaboration with the department. 

Condensed Matter Journal Club

Participating Department(s): Applied Physic, Biophysics, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Physics
Contact: Josephine Yu jjy@stanford.edu

The goal of the journal club is to foster intellectual collaboration and encourage conversations between members of different groups. Condensed matter physics is a diverse field, with fundamental and applied research approached through theory and experiment. At our meetings, we create a platform for informal, yet focused, discussions. The format is a hybrid between a seminar and a group discussion, led by the speaker of that session. We generally hold these meetings over lunch or dinner, encouraging a friendly and relaxed environment.

Critical Studies of Blackness in Education

Participating Department(s): African Studies, Education
Contact: CoCo Massengale cocomass@stanford.edu

The purpose of Critical Studies of Blackness in Education (CSBE) is to foster an intellectual community specifically dedicated to understanding and developing applied solutions to embedded anti-Blackness in education. Graduate student members seek to work collectively to reimagine educational futures drawing on Black traditions and understandings in ways that protect and uplift Black schoolchildren. Leaning on the scholarly lineage of Black Studies and Black feminist epistemology, CSBE is a transdisciplinary space that sponsors workshops, writing groups, presentations, and collaborative knowledge production that disrupts anti-Blackness at all levels of education. 

Critically Conscious Young Adult Literature Book Club

Participating Department(s): African Studies, Comparative Literature, Education, English, Master of Liberal Arts, Modern Thought and Literature
Contact: Stephanie Robillard smr2@stanford.edu

This yearlong book club will provide an opportunity for students to read and engage in critical conversations around young adult literature. During monthly meetings, participants will discuss group-selected titles, discussing their merit in advancing a critically conscious mindset. This book club will provide opportunities for graduate students from across departments to engage with young adult literature, making connections to their own research and studies. In addition to discussing YA literature, meetings will periodically feature invited scholars who will help frame specific texts, contexts, and uses of YA literature.

East Asia Scholars Intellectual Community

Participating Department(s): All
Contact: Xiaoyi Huang xiaoyih@stanford.edu

This intellectual community connects graduate students and scholars across campus studying East Asia, broadly defined. We foster multidisciplinary conversation and collaboration through a wide range of activities including workshops, networking events, reading groups, and film screenings. In doing so, we aim to enrich graduate research in East Asia studies, cultivate professional networks, and provide opportunities for extensive intellectual exchange.

Education Practitioners and Innovators of China (EPIC)

Participating Department(s): Business, Education, Psychology, Statistics
Contact: Elvis Wu elviswu@stanford.edu

EPIC is a two-day education technology online forum and in-person networking event, which aims to connect innovation and resources between China and Silicon Valley, and create a cross-border platform for the next generation of education change-makers. This year’s focus is on education technology and the future possibilities and challenges of its application. Keynote speakers consist of business leaders in the education industry, venture capitalists who specialize in education, Ed-tech start-up founders and policy-makers in both the US and China.

Energy and Society Network

Participating Department(s): All
Contact: Emilia Groupp egroupp@stanford.edu

The purpose of the Energy and Society Network is to provide a space for graduate students who primarily utilize social scientific research methods and theory in studying the socio-political dynamics of energy technologies and infrastructures. This space allows students to discuss, develop and explore approaches, methodologies, literature and theoretical frameworks through seminars, graduate student research presentations and workshops, journal clubs and writing sessions. 

Freedom Dreaming in Education Collective

Participating Department(s): African Studies, Business, East Asian Studies, Education, History, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Latin American Studies, Law, Linguistics, Master of Liberal Arts, Philosophy, Public Policy, Sociology
Contact: Darion Wallace darionw@stanford.edu

Guided by abolition and its focus on community as a central part of a methodology of freedom dreaming towards the future, we seek to build an intellectual community of under/graduate students invested in building liberatory k-12 education. Our working group will meet four times per quarter during the academic school year. Participants will engage in reading groups, expert panels, and praxis projects to sharpen their understanding of abolition. Additionally, we will interface with teachers, youth, activists, and movement lawyers to advance knowledge and operationalize abolition in education, practice, and policy. 

Generaciones: An Interdepartmental Seminar Series

Participating Department(s): Comparative Literature, English, Iberian & Latin American Cultures, Modern Thought and Literature
Contact: Kristian Ayala kayala@stanford.edu

Generaciones: A Seminar Series on Diasporic Mexicanidades is organized by an interdepartmental group of scholars whose focus is generally on the study of Chicanidad—its limitations, its genres of creation, its modes of cultural production, and its epistemologies. Our name highlights three key aspects that characterize our group: an interest in the genres that cultural production takes; an emphasis on intra- and inter-generational dialogues; and a commitment to generation—of vibrant community, of critical scholarship, of just Chicanx and Mexican futures. The group is designed to appeal not only to scholars working directly in Chicanx studies but also to anyone working at the intersection of topics in transnationalism, racialization, and cultural studies.

Graduate Workshop in Comparative Politics

Participating Department(s): Political Science
Contact: Camille DeJarnett camilled@stanford.edu

The Graduate Workshop in Comparative Politics is a venue for PhD students to receive feedback on in-progress work as part of a supportive peer community. Though there are opportunities for students to present polished research to the department, there are no institutionalized outlets for presenting in-progress work. Consequently, many early-year graduate students are locked out of receiving regular, formal feedback, with implications for their readiness to present work at conferences and in other professional settings. This workshop fills that gap by providing a space that encourages presentation of early-stage work. 

Graduate Workshop in Science, Technology, and Society

Participating Department(s): All, Anthropology, Communication, Education, History, Modern Thought and Literature, Sociology
Contact: Emilia Groupp egroupp@stanford.edu

Our goal is to enhance the development of doctoral students in humanities and social sciences whose research concerns questions around technology, medicine, and science. The proposed graduate workshop offers an interdisciplinary space to improve and share work from in-progress dissertation chapters, and article manuscripts. Also, we expose PhD students to Stanford faculty and other Bay Area STS scholars across disciplines through guest talks. The STS workshop uniquely offers a rigorous, yet generous intellectual space for work-shopping one's writing for dissertation chapters, specifically for those who want feedback from outside of their home discipline. 

Housing Justice: in Partnership with LifeMoves

Participating Department(s): Bioengineering, Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Statistics
Contact: Tony Liu txliu@stanford.edu

Homelessness is an interdisciplinary challenge which causes interwoven health disparities including shorter life expectancy, higher rates of severe mental health issues, and COVID-19. Our project brings together graduate students from across Stanford’s schools and departments to develop service-oriented research projects in partnership with LifeMoves, the largest shelter system in the Bay Area. Ongoing projects, which include a mix of quantitative and qualitative research coupled with implementation efforts are investigating the impacts of housing specialists and behavioral interventions on rates of transition to permanent housing. The outcomes of these projects (research products and new LifeMoves programs) will allow LifeMoves to structure and prioritize programs to improve individuals’ housing outcomes. We support volunteers through a series of research presentations and professional development opportunities.

Intellectual Interdepartmental Meets (IIMs)

Participating Department(s): All
Contact: Anex Jose anexjose@stanford.edu

IIMs provides opportunities for students to meet over lunch and interact with folks from outside departments/schools. The lunches are designed to facilitate conversation between graduate students across different programs and develop skills to communicate important concepts in their respective areas with students from other fields. Lunches may include activities such as case study discussions or informal presentations of ongoing research to gather feedback from students unfamiliar with the area of inquiry.

Making History with Manuscripts: Publication Workshop

Participating Department(s): Art & Art History, English, French and Italian, German Studies, History, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Religious Studies
Contact: Johannes Junge Ruhland jmjr@stanford.edu

An international and interdisciplinary group of doctoral and early career medievalist scholars will workshop their chapter contributions to a book, "Making History with Manuscripts" (peer-edited). The collaborative nature of the project addresses the habit of publishing in isolation by fostering sustained dialogue throughout the publication process. It has three components: a two-day conference in Fall Quarter to workshop draft chapters, an ongoing online collaboration in the form of writing seminars, and the publication itself. 

MASALA (Music, Arts, and Sciences: Advancing our Lives in Academia)

Participating Department(s): Music
Contact: Lorenzo Tunesi tunesi92@stanford.edu

MASALA brings together students from the four disciplines hosted within the music department: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music composition, and computer research in music and acoustics. MASALA provides cross-disciplinary opportunities for connection by hosting a weekly research colloquium series, a weekly journal/listening group, and other special events that bring together performers, composers, and scholars from Stanford and the local community. Through these activities, we aim to exchange viewpoints, stimulate thought, and share new research in the diverse fields of music scholarship.

Mathematics Directed Reading Program

Participating Department(s): Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics
Contact: Jared Marx-Kuo jmarxkuo@stanford.edu
Websitehttp://mathdrp.stanford.edu

The Mathematics Directed Reading Program pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors one-on-one to meet weekly as they read a mathematical text over the course of a quarter. At the end of each quarter, the undergraduate participants meet for a colloquium and each give short talks about what they have learned. The goal is to build connections between the undergraduate and graduate student communities by helping students engage in substantive mathematical projects together, and to provide individual mentorship to our undergraduate participants.

MatSci Mentors

Participating Department(s): Materials Science and Engineering
Contact: Ajay Subramanian ajaysub@stanford.edu

MatSci Mentors seeks to cultivate a culture of mentorship by developing a mentorship network that spans the entirety of the MSE population. Community members who opt-in will be assigned a ‘pod’ of diverse peers who they can meet and share their experiences, and both receive and provide mentorship. Programming will include quarterly lunch events for mentors and mentees with themes relating to community building and professional development. 

Meeting of Astrophysics Students at Stanford (MASS)

Participating Department(s): Physics
Contact: Anthony Flores aflores7@stanford.edu

MASS is a students-only seminar series and journal club within the Physics department and the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). Our main objective is to provide a comfortable, stress-free setting in which graduate students can practice presenting and receive feedback from their peers. In creating this comfortable learning space, we will support students from diverse academic and personal backgrounds, who are more likely to have “imposter syndrome,” and support the intellectual growth of all students involved. Students from all physics disciplines are encouraged to attend.

Networking Outreach Meals for Science (NOMS)

Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Physics
Contact: Connie Hsueh chsueh@stanford.edu

NOMS is a professional development program that brings early-career professionals to speak about their experiences in making post-PhD decisions. The group focuses on non-academic career opportunities and how to leverage the physics/applied physics PhD skillsets into careers in industry.

Performance Text Reading Group and Retreat

Participating Department(s): Theater and Performance Studies
Contact: Daniel Jackson dnjack@stanford.edu

The Performance Text Reading Group supports TAPS Ph.D. students by providing a forum and support for the live reading and discussion of performance texts in a casual environment. The PTRG gives students the opportunity to see the texts they are researching performed, while also building community by exposing students to a wide variety of performance-text-based research and interests. Ongoing events will culminate with a 3-day writing retreat in Spring Quarter to create space to solidify this performed research into academic writing, including peer-feedback and collegial input.

Racial Capitalism Working Group

Participating Department(s): African Studies, Anthropology, Art & Art History, Classics, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, Economics, Education, English, Iberian & Latin American Cultures, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Latin American Studies, Law, Modern Thought and Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, Stanford Global Studies, Theater and Performance Studies
Contact: Claire Grossman cog@stanford.edu

The aim of the Racial Capitalism Working Group is to create a cross-disciplinary space in which graduate students can read foundational and new texts, share work-in-progress, and hear from scholars working on relevant issues. This working group will convene graduate students across disciplines to examine and discuss theories of race and capitalism. Across interdisciplinary fields, the conceptual linking of race and value, or economic systems armatured by racial hierarchies, have offered a compelling route to understanding historical inequities. Our first quarter of meetings will focus on readings and discussion; in Winter and Spring quarters, we will host speakers and share works-in-progress.

Reading Marx in the Present

Participating Department(s): Chemistry, Earth System Science, Education, History, Law, Medicine, Modern Thought and Literature
Contact: Sina Salessi ssalessi@stanford.edu

From Latin America to West Africa to East Asia, antiracist, feminist projects have engaged the Marxian tradition. This group aims to understand the basis of this historical affinity, along with the continued relevance--and shortcomings--of Marxism for progressive politics writ large. By reading and discussing texts from the Marxist intellectual tradition regularly, this project will carry on its goals of an interdisciplinary, diverse community that collectively discusses the most pressing political problems of our time through the vantage point of a particularly rich intellectual tradition.

RelTalks

Participating Department(s): Religious Studies
Contact: Oriane Lavole olavole@stanford.edu

RelTalks will invite all Religious Studies graduate students and their close colleagues from other fields to participate in monthly dinners, where students at different stages in the program will take turns presenting a work-in-progress that will be workshopped with the group in a convivial setting. We thereby aim to build a more cohesive student body and facilitate collaborative exchange within the department and beyond. 

SITP Journal Club

Participating Department(s): Physics
Contact: Alexander Frenkel afrenkel@stanford.edu

SITP Journal Club meets once a week, with a student responsible for preparing and leading 1 hour discussion on a topic from theoretical physics of their choice. The talk is generally a blackboard talk (a prepared discussion with no prepared slides, with the ideas communicated via a blackboard), an important skill for graduate students in this field to develop. 

Sociology and Education Network (SAEN)

Participating Department(s): Education, Sociology
Contact: Mike O’Key mdo0013@stanford.edu

Blurb: Our objectives are to connect sociologists and education researchers to workshop research, talk about relevant issues in the field, foster interdisciplinary networking, and provide professional development opportunities. We achieve this through research seminars, faculty guest speakers, and networking events.

Stanford Advanced Degree Candidates (ADC) Consulting Club

Participating Department(s): All
Contact: Anita Shao xshao95@stanford.edu
Websitehttps://adc.stanford.edu/

The Stanford ADC Consulting Club provides support for all graduate students from any disciplines across the university who are interested in careers in management/life science consulting. We provide resources, tools, and networking opportunities to help graduate students better navigate through this different job application process that is beyond academia. Events include panel discussions, a comprehensive case interview preparation series, case bootcamp, and a summer program preparation series. We also host regular case practice sessions, case demo, and resume workshops. 

Stanford Biotechnology Group

Participating Department(s): Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Business, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Developmental Biology, Medicine, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Structural Biology, Urology
Contact: Joel Bateman batemanj@stanford.edu
Websitehttps://www.stanfordbiotechgroup.com/

The Stanford Biotechnology Group (SBG) is an organization run by and for Stanford life science graduate students, business students, and medical students who are interested in exploring careers in biotechnology business, management and investing. SBG facilitates opportunities for experiential education, hosts invited speakers, and provides relevant online content to allow members to survey the biotechnology landscape and prepare for careers in these fields. Our annual events include our career and summer internship panels, biotech landscape discussions, biotech company site visits, Startup Happy Hours etc. We also teach the popular INDE239 “Valuation of Public Companies in the Life Sciences” course.

Stanford Classics in Theater

Participating Department(s): Anthropology, Classics, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Management Science & Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Theater and Performance Studies
Contact: Samuel Powell sgpowell@stanford.edu
Websitehttps://scit.stanford.edu/index.html

Each year, Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT) adapts and performs a work of ancient drama, as we have done since 2008-09. SCIT is a graduate initiative in the Classics department. All graduate students vote on a play for adaption in the early fall and then collaborate on translating the play on a retreat. In the Winter and Spring, both Classics graduate students and members of the Stanford Community ( including undergraduates) take on the roles of cast and crew. Our combination of open casting and public performance fosters intra-departmental discussion, collaboration, and public engagement with Classics. 

Stanford Department of Biology Surf 'n' Turf Symposium

Participating Department(s): Biology
Contact: Ben Moran benmoran@stanford.edu

The Surf 'n' Turf Symposium helps Biology trainees communicate their research effectively, spark new collaborations across sub-disciplines, and develop professional skills in small-group workshops. This event will connect graduate students and postdocs from the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey ("surf") and the main Stanford campus ("turf"). Through lightning talks, posters, and tours, we will encourage communication among biologists working in our department’s three main tracks: Cell, Molecular, and Organismal Biology, Ecology and Evolution, and Hopkins. This year, the symposium will be held at the Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey.

Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Participating Department(s): Philosophy, Political Science
Contact: Alexandra Minsk aminsk@stanford.edu

The Stanford Graduate Conference in Political Theory is an opportunity for students with normative political interests to present their work and receive feedback from the Stanford community of scholars. The conference strengthens the Stanford political theory community by 1) providing a professional development opportunity for graduate students to practice key skills such as selecting abstracts, providing commentary, and organizing logistics; and 2) connecting political theory students to scholars with normative political interests in other departments within the university and at other institutions.

Stanford Jail & Prison Education Project

Participating Department(s): All
Contact: Sophie Allen sallen2@stanford.edu

Stanford Jail & Prison Education Project (SJPEP) plans and executes interdisciplinary seminar courses at local jails: Maple Street Correctional Center and San Francisco County Jail #3. Each week, a different Stanford graduate student teaches a lesson related to the broader course theme (e.g., Humans and Earth, Great Innovations, Virtue and Vice) from the perspective of their academic discipline. When they do not teach, graduate students co-learn as students in the class. Our goals are to provide much-needed educational services to the incarcerated individuals and to offer Stanford graduate students across the University an opportunity to develop their interdisciplinary teaching and learning skills.

Stanford Ocean Networking And Research (SONAR)

Participating Department(s): Biology, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Earth System Science, Earth Systems Program, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
Contact: Meghan Shea mshea@stanford.edu

SONAR (Stanford Ocean Networking And Research) fosters an intellectual community for all marine-interested graduate students, to support interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration, highlight current debates related to marine environments, and facilitate discussion among students who ordinarily would not interact. SONAR hosts several events each quarter, including invited seminar speakers, a focused reading group, graduate research talks, and more. These events aim to bring new perspectives to our academic work, but even more importantly, to foster relationships and build community among ocean-interested graduate students.

Stanford Partnership for International Education and Development

Participating Department(s): Education, Political Science, Sociology
Contact: Hannah D’Apice hdapice@stanford.edu

This project convenes individuals from across campus interested in issues of international education and development. Participants exchange ideas and engage in conversation with faculty, researchers, and practitioners in the field through dinners, guest presentations, student research presentations, and a Spring research colloquium.

Stanford Polymer Collective

Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biophysics, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Contact: Lucia Brunel lbrunel@stanford.edu
Websitehttp://polymer.stanford.edu

The Stanford Polymer Collective provides a collaborative environment for Stanford's macromolecular research community to build connections, develop professionally, and excel in a research environment. We provide numerous professional and academic opportunities while maintaining a strong commitment to outreach off-campus. Programs include lunch-and-learn courses, meetings with visiting professors, and larger-scale quarterly talks from academic and industrial researchers. Additionally, we curate a monthly list of polymer-related talks and host an annual research poster symposium.

STATS: Student Talks in Applied and Theoretical Statistics

Participating Department(s): Statistics
Contact: Julie Zhang jyz27@stanford.edu

Student Talks in Applied and Theoretical Statistics (STATS) is a full weekend retreat where students are invited to give presentations on their research. This allows students to appreciate the quality and breadth of research in the department, provides a channel for feedback and potential extensions for the presenters, and generally enhances the intellectual and academic dialogue among the doctoral students. 

The Dish on Science

Participating Department(s): Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Biomedical Informatics, Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Chemical and Systems Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Comparative Medicine, Developmental Biology, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Health Research & Policy, Immunology, Medical Scientist Training Program, Microbiology & Immunology, Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Neurobiology, Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Neurosciences, Physics, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, Structural Biology
Contact: Katherine Nico knico@stanford.edu
Website: http://thedishonscience.stanford.edu

The goal of the Dish on Science is to promote accessibility, understanding, and interest in topics in STEM fields among the general public. On our newly updated website, thedishonscience.stanford.edu, we write and post scientific articles targeted to an audience with an 8th grade science background. These articles are both crafted and peer-reviewed by club members through monthly workshops. We also hope to collaborate with other clubs focused on science outreach and education to further our goal of broader accessibility and interest in science. Through these activities, we aim to encourage dialogue between scientists and non-scientists, make the scientific process more tangible, answer common questions from the general public, and provide informational and entertaining content to individuals of all backgrounds.

Transpacific History and Culture

Participating Department(s): East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, History, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Law, Modern Thought and Literature, Political Science, Religious Studies
Contact: Chanhee Her heoc@stanford.edu

Though transpacific studies encompasses specific geographies, languages, and methodologies, few current departments or existing student groups focus on studies that include both Asia and the Americas. Students working in this space at times find themselves in the position of bridging disparate and even disconnected fields. Transpacific History and Culture addresses this need by creating a space for regular workshops and research support for students whose projects span the Pacific. Activities include individual presentations and feedback on participants’ work, sessions with Stanford East Asian Studies and transnational studies librarians, writing bootcamps, and research check-ins.