ESP Biography



LAYNE NOVAK, Stanford senior studying History



Major: History

College/Employer: Stanford

Year of Graduation: 2013

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I am a senior majoring in History, with an interdisciplinary concentration in History, Literature, & the Arts of Europe. I also love philosophy, physics, Jewish history, and the history of science. I bake, brew beer, write short stories, and watch Dr Who reruns in my free time, of which I have very little because this year I am writing an honors thesis about the role of imagination in English Enlightenment philosophy.



Past Classes

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S2538: Chemistry, Contracts, Coffeehouses, and Kings: Political and Intellectual History of Early Modern England in Splash! Fall 2012 (Nov. 03 - 04, 2012)
A brief overview of early modern English political and intellectual history from 1650 to 1789, including the rise of empiricism, the English Civil Wars, social contract theory, the Scientific Revolution and the Royal Society, Cromwell and the Restoration, the Scottish Enlightenment, epistolary novels, "public Enlightenment," trade and mercantilism, and the love/hate relationship between France and Britain.