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

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

Rowan Dorin

  • Assistant Professor of History
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Project Lead, Corpus Synodalium

Kathryn Starkey

  • Professor of German
  • Faculty Advisory Board
  • Project Lead, The Global Medieval Sourcebook

Laura Stokes

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

Staff

Research and Operations Staff

Alix Keener

  • Digital Scholarship Coordinator, CESTA
alixkee@stanford.edu

Nelia Lanets

  • Center Manager, CESTA
neliarod@stanford.edu

Erik Steiner

  • Co-Director, Spatial History Project
ebs110@stanford.edu

Student and Postdoctoral Staff

Steele Douris

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

Nicholas Fenech

  • Dean's Fellow, CESTA
nfenech@stanford.edu

Eric Harvey

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CESTA
ejharvey@stanford.edu

Annie Lamar

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

Merve Tekgürler

  • Graduate Student in History
  • Graduate Mentor, URI Program, CESTA
  • Co-Founder, CISTERN
mtekgurl@stanford.edu

Mae Velloso-Lyons

  • Graduate Student in Comparative Literature
  • Program Manager and Research Liaison, CESTA
  • Project Lead, Global Medieval Sourcebook
  • Graduate Fellow, CESTA (2017-18)
m.velloso-lyons@stanford.edu

Administrative Support from the Stanford Humanities Center

Andrea Davies

  • SHC Associate Director
ardavies@stanford.edu

Carol Guthrie

  • SHC Research Workshops Program Manager
carolguthrie@stanford.edu