[[HOME]] | [[RESEARCH]] | [[TEACHING]] | [[DESIGN]] | [[CV]] ![[David Stentiford.png]] _Kelp forest exhibit, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 2019._ (Photo credit: Author) **David Stentiford is a Ph.D. Candidate in the [Program in Modern Thought and Literature](https://mtl.stanford.edu) at [Stanford University](https://www.stanford.edu), minoring in [Anthropology](https://anthropology.stanford.edu). His research explores how environmental imaginaries cut across domains of art, literature, engineering, and ecology. He is currently completing a dissertation on the history of ocean farms in the twentieth century. At Stanford, he has collaborated on the [Center for Global Ethnography](https://iriss.stanford.edu/ethnography), the STS Graduate Workshop, and the Environmental Humanities Project.** --- Research Interests: Environmental Humanities, Ocean Humanities, Multispecies Ethnography --- #### UPCOMING --- #### RECENT - 07-11-2023, “How Kelp Comes to Matter,” [ASLE + AESS 2023 Conference](https://pheedloop.com/asleaess23/site/home/), Portland Oregon - 03-02-2023, “How Kelp Works: The Social Life of Underwater Forests,” [Kelp Kulture](https://kelpkulture.com) group, UCLA. A recording of the talk is available [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjKLA09afaM). - 11-17-2022, at the [materia](https://materia.stanford.edu) workshop, Stanford. I presented on the ecological and technological imaginaries at work in extending terrestrial agriculture to the oceans, specifically the modern plantation form. Christian Galdón (Univ. Paris 1 - Sorbonne) also presented work on “Literature facing Gaia.” Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus U.) responded. A recording of the session is available [here](https://youtu.be/aGIqYTl6C8o). - 10-08-2022, I gave a talk on seaweed farms at the [third annual California Seaweed Festival](https://www.californiaseaweedfestival.com/csu-seaweed-symposium) in Tiburon, CA. The recording of that event will be made available [here](https://www.youtube.com/c/CaliforniaSeaweedFestival/videos) soon. - I reviewed [_Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea_](https://www.dukeupress.edu/blue-legalities)(2019), edited by Irus Braverman, Elizabeth R. Johnson, in _Environment and Society_ [here](https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.3167/ares.2022.130111). ---- #### LINKS ☞ [Program Bio](https://mtl.stanford.edu/people/david-stentiford) ☞ [Author Photo](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D-2J6lP6oeFYZ6FCaMFdvJmLcwup8c9C/view?usp=sharing) ☞ [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-stentiford-94809512/) ⌁ **email:** ds1 [at] stanford [dot] edu ✉︎ **mail:** 450 Jane Stanford Way; Building 460; Stanford, CA, USA; 94305 🗓 Book a time to meet with me [here](https://calendly.com/stentiford/meet). ![[headshot.jpg]]