Works

A tour of the pop-up exhibit from the Jack London Symposium – items from the Anderson family collection documenting the author's fascinating life.

Scholars talked about the life and legacy of novelist, journalist, photographer, and social activist Jack London. Video of the symposium at Stanford held Sept. 19, 2016.

Mary Ellen Hannibal, Center Media Fellow

Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning science writer. Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled citizen science movement to its roots.

Tara Moran, Amanda Cravens, Janet Martinez, Leon Szeptycki

Historic groundwater legislation has brought California to the cusp of a new era of water management. Meeting the law’s goals will require overcoming stubborn systemic obstacles, says this new report by Water in the West.

Nicholas Bauch

One of the most remarkable wonders of the natural world, the Grand Canyon has become a symbol of the American West. It is one of the most photographed landmarks in America, and one of its earliest photographers was Henry G. Peabody.

The television writer Carrie Kemper (American Studies, '06) spoke to Shelley Fisher Fishkin and students from the American West Course about her work on the Emmy-nominated HBO comedy series, “Silicon Valley.”

A historical look at the Coastal Commission reveals these fluctuating tides of tension, a perspective that provides a broader understanding of the structural conflicts the commission, as well as other regulatory agencies, confront.

How do agencies use the permitting process to shape policy outcomes? This article unveils the black-box by using various text mining techniques to retrieve valuable empirical data from unstructured texts.

Like other crises, the drought offers a view into the institutional and infrastructural relations that are normally not seen, relations that illustrated how the state is bound by political and ecological ties.