Faculty Leaders

Zephyr Frank

associate professor of Latin American history and director of Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis and Spatial History Project

Zephyr Frank is an associate professor of history, director of Stanford's Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and the Spatial History Project. He is the founding director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, which comprises the Spatial History Project along with five other affiliated labs. CESTA labs and projects seek research which utilize data and information visualization that span a variety of methodologies, disciplines, and departments, often collaborating with diverse team members from within the Stanford community, but also externally through national and international collaborations. Professor Frank’s publications include, Dutras World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro and the co-edited volume, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000, along with journal articles in venues such as Comparative Studies in Society and History, the Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Social History. His favorite activities include traveling in and exploring Latin America, reading fiction, particularly classics from the literatures of the region, and finding time to play with his two children.

ACCOLADES:

--Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award (2008)

-- UWA 2014 Fred Alexander Fellow. The Fred Alexander Fellowship is dedicated to the memory of Professor Fred Alexander (1899-1996), the founding Head of the History Discipline (then Department) at The University of Western Australia.

--large, multiyear grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the study of crowdsourcing in the humanities (2012-15).