Former Directors and Staff
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Brenda Frink is a postdoctoral scholar at the Lane Center. She received a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University in 2010. Her current book project focuses on historical memory in Californi … Read More »
Former Faculty Co-Director
Richard White, the Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading scholars in three related fields: the America … Read More »
Former Executive Director
Jon Christensen is an adjunct assistant professor and Pritzker fellow in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angel … Read More »
Former Program and Research Associate
Heather West coordinates our summer internship program, our work with undergraduate research assistants, and our events. Heather will also work with our program on Water … Read More »
Former Researchers
Graduate Research Assistant
Rio Akasaka is a first year Master’s student in Computer Science with interests in data visualization, multimodal interfaces, and behavior change. He has a background in Engineering and Lingu … Read More »
Research Assistant
Chris Alvarez is a senior studying International Relations and Economics and will be returning to Stanford next year to pursue a graduate degree in Public Policy. Chris has spent time working in pu … Read More »
Former Research Assistant
Aline Bass is a sophomore planning to major in either History or International Relations with a minor in Chinese. She has been interested in environmental issues, especially water scarcity, since h … Read More »
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mike Binder is a PhD of Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on political participation, as well as, voter decision-making and vote choice under cond … Read More »
Research Assistant
Emily Bookstein is a Stanford senior majoring in the Earth Systems Program, an interdiscplinary earth sciences program that studies the interactions between biophysical processes (e.g., “natu … Read More »
Research Assistant
Judee Burr is an undergraduate student in Stanford’s class of 2012, majoring in Earth Systems, with a focus in Land Systems, and Philosophy. She has been involved in environmental research an … Read More »
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Brian works on the Comparative West Project studying past and present livelihoods in Native California and Aboriginal Australia.
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Former Research Assistant
Matt Grossman is a junior economics major. At the Bill Lane Center, where he is a research assistant to David Kennedy and John McChesney, his work focuses on using statistical analysis to explain e … Read More »
Graduate Research Assistant
Robert Jackman is a Master’s student in Stanford’s Public Policy program focusing on environmental economics and policy. His research focuses on many areas including: environmental educ … Read More »
Research Assistant
Natalie Johnson is a rising junior at Williams College where she is studying Chinese and Political Science with a concentration in Political Theory. She plans to study abroad in Beijing, China in t … Read More »
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Her current research project, "Access and Mobility in the American West," explores the scientific and policy worlds of roadkill prevention and their intersections with other forms of huma … Read More »
Former Research Assistant
The walls of Annie's compact dorm room speak volumes. They tell the tales of high-alpine trekking (and trudging) in Bhutan, Nepal, Corsica, and beyond, of endurance running through the Hoh Rain … Read More »
Research Assistant
Clare is currently a student at Barnard College, and she is majoring in Art History and Comparative Literature. Clare studies art methodology and theory as well as German and French, and has recent … Read More »
Research Assistant
Matthew Miller is a man of many hats: a racial justice organizer, an urban planning hopeful, a young educator, and to most professionals (including the Center), an environmental … Read More »
Visiting Researcher
Cindy Ott is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at Saint Louis University whose work explores the intersections of cultural identity, history and memory, and the natural and … Read More »
Former Research Assistant
Michael Pearce is a Junior History major from San Jose, California. His interest in environmental and legal history, particularly i … Read More »
Visiting Researcher
Jenny Price is a writer, public humanities scholar, and Research Scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, who has written often about environment, Los Ange … Read More »
Graduate Research Assistant
Yinfeng Qin is an M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He worked at The Bill Lane Center for the American West as a research assistant in building software for data col … Read More »
Former Research Assistant
From exploring slot canyons in Utah to investigating insect thermodynamics in the Rockies to predicting patterns of development in California’s Central Valley, Jenny Rempel is deeply in love … Read More »
Graduate Research Assistant
Reese is an Earth Systems Master’s student focusing in science communication and energy systems. As a research assistant for the Rural West project, he examines the social impacts of the rece … Read More »
Research Assistant
Paula Salazar is a sophomore majoring in Art History. Originally hailing from Miami, Florida, she now resides in Phoenix, Arizona, when not frolicking in the breezy California sunshine. In addition … Read More »
Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer Seltz is working on a book manuscript examining arguments about disease, environmental change, and settlement in nineteenth-century North America, tentatively titled Embodying Expansion. S … Read More »
Former Research Assistant
Elle Stuart is a sophomore History and the Law major from Tucson, Arizona. Her love for Southwestern culture and the West in general first led her to the Bill Lane Center, where she works as a rese … Read More »
Research Assistant
Elizabeth Titus is a reporter and rural-California native. She got her start in journalism at The Ferndale Enterprise, the weekly newspaper her family publishes in northern California. … Read More »
Research Assistant
Dani Uribe is a senior majoring in International Relations, focusing on historical and political analysis. She is also pursuing a minor in African Studies. As a political asylee from Colombia, she … Read More »
Graduate Research Assistant
Ningxuan Wang is a first year master student in the Stanford computer science department. He graduated with Magna Cum Laude as a B.S. in computer science from University of Portland. He received Ou … Read More »
Research Assistant
Claire Woodard is a senior majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing in poetry. She is also very involved in the … Read More »
