"As a faculty member, I feel a great intellectual advantage in being in continual conversation with students, who arrive new and clear-eyed, asking foundational questions. I’ve found that giving them the benefit of my perspective means also accepting from them the benefit of theirs."
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Historians from the United StatesWomen academics from the United StatesWomen born in the 1960sStanford University faculty
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