Our Team

Faculty Leadership

Giovanna Ceserani

  • Associate Professor of Classics
  • Faculty Director
  • Project Lead, Grand Tour Project
  • Project Lead, Mapping Republic of Letters

Mark Algee-Hewitt

  • Associate Professor of English
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Director of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
  • Director of the Literary Lab

Nora Barakat

  • Assistant Professor of History
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Project Director, Open Gulf

Amir Eshel

  • Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Director, Poetic Media Lab
  • Project Lead, Poetic Thinking

Laura Stokes

  • Associate Professor of History
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Project Lead, Panic and Pandemic in Early Modern Europe

Staff

Research and Operations Staff

Jonathan Clark

  • Center Manager
jclark93@stanford.edu

Dr Will Fenton

Dr. Will Fenton

  • Associate Director
wdfenton@stanford.edu

Alix Keener

  • Digital Scholarship Coordinator, CESTA
alixkee@stanford.edu

Student and Postdoctoral Staff

Nicole Constantine

  • Graduate Student in Classics
  • Communications Coordinator, CESTA
nconsta@stanford.edu

Steele Douris

  • Graduate Student in English
  • Graduate Researcher, CESTA
sdouris@stanford.edu

Annie Lamar

  • Graduate Student in Classics
  • CESTA Graduate Technical Mentor, URI Program
  • CESTA Digital Humanities Graduate Fellow (2021-22)
kalamar@stanford.edu

JJ Lugardo

  • Graduate Student in Classics
  • CESTA Graduate Mentor, URI Program
jjlugar@stanford.edu

Administrative Support from the Stanford Humanities Center

Carol Guthrie

  • SHC Research Workshops Program Manager
carolguthrie@stanford.edu