This website is no longer updated and has been replaced with a static copy. The Spatial History Project was active at Stanford University from 2007-2022, engaging in dozens of collaborative projects led by faculty, staff, graduate students, post-docs, visiting scholars and others at Stanford and beyond. More than 150 undergraduate students from more than a dozen disciplines contributed to these projects. In addition to a robust intellectual exchange built through these partnerships, research outputs included major monographs, edited volumes, journal articles, museum exhibitions, digital articles, robust websites, and dozens of lightweight interactive visualizations, mostly developed with Adobe Flash (now defunct). While most of those publications live on in other forms, the content exclusive to this website is preserved in good faith through this static version of the site. Flash-based content is partially available in emulated form using the Ruffle emulator.
Our Team
Current Research Assistants
Maria Bojorquez
Research Assistant
Maria Bojorquez is a freshman intending to major in English. She is currently working as a research assistant for the Undocumented Mexican Migration project at CESTA, where she mainly organizes interviews conducted for the project. In her free time, she enjoys reading and exploring campus along with all its opportunities.
Madison Coots
Research Assistant
Madison Coots is a sophomore studying Management Science & Engineering with a minor in English literature. Madison is collaborating with Dr. Luca Scholz on his project, “Beyond Borders: Mapping Early Modern Regimes of Movement,” to develop new methods of representing early modern states and to create visualizations of early modern political orders as regimes of movement. Madison is also the manager of the Stanford Men’s Volleyball team and works at The Alumni Center within The Stanford Fund. In her free time, Madison enjoys reading, playing the piano, and building terrariums.
David Mollenkamp
Research Assistant
David Mollenkamp is a sophomore studying History and Political Science. He is currently working with Dr. Luca Scholz on the project "Mapping the Early Modern Regimes of Movement" where he collects data and utilizes GIS applications to map how tolls were enforced in Early Modern Europe. In his free time, he enjoys reading about history, politics, and economics and playing tennis.
Stephanie Niu
Research Assistant
Stephanie Niu is a sophomore studying symbolic systems (a combination of computer science, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics) with a passion for education access and curriculum design. Since fall 2015, she’s been working with the Chinese Railroad Workers’ Project to design and build data visualizations that convey the experience of the Chinese transcontinental railroad workers. Outside of academics, Stephanie spends her time choreographing for a hip-hop dance team, making soap, and journaling relentlessly.
Olivia Popp
Research Assistant
Olivia Popp is an undeclared freshman with an interest in film, television, theater, and communications. Within CESTA, she is working as a research assistant for Professor Richard White on the California Time project, looking at maps and using ArcGIS to track changes in geologic phenomena throughout history. Olivia is also a staff writer for The Stanford Flipside, managing editor of Arts & Life for The Stanford Daily, and an intern with the Asian American Theater Project.
Abigail Schott-Rosenfield
Research Assistant
Abigail Schott-Rosenfield is a sophomore planning to major
in Comparative Literature with a focus in Arabic. She is a research assistant
for the Global Atlas of Oil project, which explores the vast historical and
contemporary impact of the oil industry's development. Abigail also writes for
the Stanford Daily and the Stanford Arts Review and loves Mahmoud Darwish,
medieval art, and contemplating the convivencia.
Terence Zhao
Research Assistant
Terence Zhao is an undergraduate Research Assistant at Stanford.
He is interested in how to maximize livability in our urban spaces through
sound planning and design. He currently works with Professor Ian Caine of UT
San Antonio to visualize more than a century of urban sprawl in the city.
