Stanford Humanities Center
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The Stanford Humanities Center invests in experiences—fellowships, workshops, lectures, and other events—that advance research in and across the disciplines.
Stanford, CA
Joined February 2010
Spread the word 📣 Fellowship applications for the 2026–27 academic year are now open. The Center is a world-renowned hub for advanced research, inspiring the work of innovative scholars at all stages in their academic careers. 💻
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Mark Algee-Hewitt, Associate Professor of English at Stanford, has been appointed faculty director of CESTA, the university's premier digital humanities institute. We look forward to welcoming him on September 1!.
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RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters Dr. Samia Errazzouki (@MellonFdn Postdoctoral Fellow) joins to the Not Just the Tudors podcast to disc….
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RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters Prof. @tsmullaney's work on Chinese typewriters & his quest to bring a MingKwai to @StanfordLibs featu….
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A historian went down an 18-year rabbit hole in search of obsolete machines. But there was one he thought he’d never find.
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RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters Prof. @tsmullaney's research about Chinese typewriters is featured on @NPR
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The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
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Fellowship opportunity: Directed by Miguel Tamen (SHC Fellow, 2003–04), the Gulbenkian Institute for Advanced Study is the largest such institute in Europe. Applications for 2026–27 are now open through October 15.
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Apply for a research opportunity at the GIAS in Lisbon. Submit your application for the academic year 2026/27.
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Call for Applications 📣 @HumanAtStanford is offering a new opportunity for @StanfordMed physicians interested in pursuing nonfiction scholarly work. Apply by July 31. 🔗
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RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters In an interview with @HumanAtStanford PhD Candidate Morgan Tufan talks about his involvement in the ca….
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Tufan and Ghereghlou discuss their work on the Jon Mandaville Manuscript Collection with Singh.
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The Stanford Humanities Center's 2025–26 Fellows announced: The incoming cohort spans undergraduate students to senior professors, representing humanistic scholarship in a variety of fields. 🔗
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RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters "The challenges that generative AI poses to history . are formidable but not insurmountable. We ne….
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Join us tomorrow, May 28, for our final public lecture of the year—in person or online—when we welcome art historian Birgit Ulrike Münch of the University of Bonn. 🕑 4–6 PM PDT. 📍Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa St. 🔗
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RT @StanfordHistory: In @StanfordArcade essay, Emily Greenfield (History PhD candidate; J.&S. Small Next Generation Scholar) finds hope in….
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Greenfield reflects on hope as manifested by her young daughter.
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Join us for our final public lecture of the year on May 28—in person or online—when we welcome art historian Birgit Ulrike Münch of the University of Bonn. ⏰ 4–6 PM PDT.📍 Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center.🔗
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RT @ayayciog: OpenGulf - Symposium and Exhibit . Project Co-Director: Professor Nora Barakat. Stanford University, sponsored by @abbasiprog….
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RT @AJMadani: My response for the @HumanAtStanford colloquy on "Hope"? In brief: Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Hegel, Marx, Sun Ra. Check out m….
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Ali Madani discusses the power of narrative to shape and reshape experience, to offer consolation, and to supply some hope at scale.
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RT @StanfordDaily: Alva Noë, chair of UC Berkeley’s philosophy department, delivered this year’s Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Human….
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Alva Noë, chair of UC Berkeley’s philosophy department, delivered this year’s Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Humanities on the vital relationship between love and perception.
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RT @StanfordHistory: Interview | PhD Candidate Austin Clements. Austin's dissertation, "Fear for a Lost God: Religion and the Transformatio….
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Three-time @HumanAtStanford fellow Londa Schiebinger in the news. 🗞️.
#HistoryMatters "Intersectionality has already become a standard form of research because it leads to better science. Precise science supports policy, policy gets us to global solutions," says Prof. Schiebinger in @Stanford Report re: her @Nature article.
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RT @CASBSStanford: 📢 Announcing the 2025-26 CASBS fellows class . The class is comprised of 33 scholars and practitioners representing 18….
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