Writing

In this episode of Historians & Their Histories, we speak with Lydia Burleson. She discusses her research into the Massachusetts state seal, tracing how its Indigenous imagery has persisted and shifted since the colony’s 1629 charter. Drawing upon variety of archival records, Lydia focuses on the seal’s brief disappearance during the Revolutionary period, when it was […]

In this episode, our host, Héctor Hoyos is joined by Judith Butler, who is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, and Katie Livingston and Lydia Burleson, who are both PhD candidates in the Department of English at Stanford. Judith visited the center on January 28th to deliver their Ian

 In 2025, as part of its “Black Lives” series, Yale University Press published Shelley Fisher Fishkin’s biography of Jim, the literary character from Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). A renowned scholar of race and widely regarded as the seminal expert on Twain, Fishkin recently spoke with Stanford English graduate student Lydia Burleson about the process of writing the

Burleson details the way she and her undergraduate narrative theory class performed a narrative analysis, along with a media and cultural studies analysis, of Lamar’s half-time performance at the 59th Super Bowl. https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/using-kendrick-lamars-super-bowl-half-time-show-teach-narrative-theory

Watch my April 2025 3-minute-thesis presentation of my dissertation research on the collision between proletarian and eugenic ideologies in the American Depression era. This was recorded live in front of an audience of 500. I was the only humanities finalist out of 10 competitors.

When given the opportunity to interview sociology scholar, higher education expert, Anthony Abraham Jack, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges are Failing Disadvantaged Students, Lydia jumped at the chance. Sitting down with Tony in November 2023, Lydia asked Tony about how he envisioned the future of higher education post-affirmative action and how he imagined

In this episode, Lydia Burleson and Kay Barrett, both PhD candidates in the English department at Stanford, talk about their respective journeys to Stanford and KHS, the life and challenges of being a PhD candidate, some literary hot takes, and so much more. Listen and subscribe: Apple or Spotify

The U.S. Census Bureau recently announced its 2022 poverty statistics. According to The New York Times, poverty in America had seen its highest annual increase on record. By the bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, one in eight Americans doesn’t have enough money to pay rent, to buy groceries, to survive, let alone live. One in eight Americans. Nearly forty

America is one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, yet it has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. One in nine Americans lives below the poverty line, and 38 million people can’t afford basic necessities. Despite America’s GDP growing to $26 trillion in 2022, its poverty level hasn’t significantly budged since 1970. Why, in

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