Visitorships
The Humanities Center brings high-profile arts writers and international scholars for month-long residencies to share their work with the Stanford community. Visitors are appointed through nomination by a Stanford department, research center, or program.
International visitorships are for non-U.S. scholars working abroad on topics of interest to the humanities and international studies communities. This program is jointly sponsored with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Arts writer/practitioner visitorships are for arts practitioners who are also writing a research or critical project about the arts. This program is jointly sponsored with the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts.
Mapping the Republic of Letters
Before research universities and disciplinary colloquia, scholars depended largely on correspondence networks for the dissemination and exchange of ideas. These informal communities, collectively known as the Republic of Letters, pose considerable challenges to the modern historian, as their contours blur and shift over time. Find out how former fellows Dan Edelstein and Paula Findlen are literally "mapping" the Republic of Letters with the help of advanced visualization techniques.
