Bill Lane Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Each year, the Bill Lane Center invites applications for its two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the study of the North American West from interested recent Ph.D.’s in all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences whose research concerns the Western United States, Western Canada, or Northern Mexico. In addition to pursuing their own research, during each academic year of the appointment the postdoctoral fellow is expected to teach up to two courses on Western topics in the Stanford department most appropriate to their disciplinary specialization and work with faculty colleagues in developing the Center programming, including taking a lead role in organizing interdisciplinary colloquia, conferences, or research initiatives.

The deadline for postdoctoral fellowships that begin in the 2008-2009 academic year will be March 2008. Please contact us with any questions you may have in the meantime.

CURRENT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

In September 2007, the Center is pleased to welcome two new postdoctoral fellows to Stanford.

Geneva Gano
Geneva Gano has returned to Stanford after detours along the West coast and Puerto Rico. Her publications include articles on John C. Frémont’s 1865 exploration narrative and map; Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House; and Robinson Jeffers’ Tamar (forthcoming). She is currently at work on two book projects. The first, Continent’s End, is an extension of her dissertation, which examines the special place of the American West in the literary imagination during the 1920s and 30s. The second is an interdisciplinary consideration of the effects of the Mexican Revolution on U.S. literature and art in the early twentieth century.

B.A. in English, Stanford University, 1995
M.A. in English, UCLA, 2003
Ph.D. in English, UCLA, 2007

Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West.

Her research interests:

19th and 20th Century American literature and culture; the races, places, and spaces of literary form; the culture and history of the North American West; regionalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism; Modernism; literature and the arts; GLBTQ and women’s studies. Click here for Geneva Gano's complete biography.

Gregory Simon received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Washington. His current research explores urbanization and natural resource management in the American West, and the environmental history and political economy of the Bay Area. In 2007-2008, he will teach “The Environmental History of the Bay Area” in the History Department (Winter) and “NAFTA and the Environment” in Earth Systems (Spring). Click here for Gregory Simon's complete biography.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW? PAST POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

Emily Brock is an assistant professor of history at Georgia State University. Dr. Brock completed her doctorate in environmental history at Princeton University in 2004, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West from 2004-2006, and was a visiting scholar in the History Department of Stanford University from 2006-2007. Her current project is on the interactions of forest science, the lumber industry and environmental politics in post-logging landscapes in the twentieth century Pacific Northwest.

Lissa Wadewitz is an Assistant Professor of History at Linfield College. Dr. Wadewitz completed her Ph.D. in History at UCLA in 2004 and spent 2004-2005 as a postdoctoral fellow in native-newcomer relations at the University of Saskatchewan. Wadewitz’s research spans both disciplinary and national borders. Her current interests include transnational environmental and social history (especially with regard to salmon fishing), borderlands history, Ethnohistory, labor and class relations, and the history of inter-ethnic interactions in the transnational West. Dr. Wadewitz was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center from 2005 to 2007.

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