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Zephyr Frank
Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West
Professor of History in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Environmental Social Sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
Gildred Professor of Latin American Studies
Professor, by courtesy, Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Department:
History
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Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, History (1999)
Zephyr Frank assumed the position of faculty director for the Bill Lane Center for the American West on September 1, 2025. He is a professor of history, a professor of environmental social sciences, and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment. He is also the former director of the Program on Urban Studies (2013 - 2019) and the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) 2011-16. His research interests focus on Brazilian social and cultural history, the study of wealth and inequality, and the digital humanities.