Collaborative Teaching Project in the Humanities

Design and co-teach humanities courses with Stanford faculty

English Department Conferences on Teaching Careers

Watch videos of past conferences on high school and community college careers

Graduate Teaching Opportunities

Comprehensive list of grad teaching opportunities on and off campus

Placement Agencies for Independent Schools

Private high schools often recruit teachers through national placement agencies: 

• CalWest Educators Placement
• Carney, Sandoe & Associates

Preparing Future Professors (PFP)

Learn what it is like to be a professor at a large public university, liberal arts college, or community college by shadowing faculty at local schools. Apply in early spring or fall.

Stanford Teacher Education Program (STEP)

Renowned MA certification program for public high school teachers. Apply in January. 

(Note: the H-STEP Fellowship, which used to fund humanities doctoral graduates in this program, has been discontinued).

Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

Offers programs and resources to enhance teaching

Humanists at Lage

Winter-spring program exploring careers for humanities PhDs throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Apply in the fall.

Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program

External fellowship that places recent humanities PhD graduates in two-year staff positions in government and nonprofit organizations. Apply in spring.

National Inventory of Humanities Organizations

Searchable databse for nonprofit, for-profit, and government institutions engaged in humanities scholarship, policy or public engagement.

Stanford Ignite

Subsidized summer program at the GSB in business fundamentals. Apply in March.

Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)

Entrepreneurship education center at the School of Engineering. Open to all disciplines.

Stanford's humanities programs also offer many other opportunities to help you develop professionally as a researcher and academic.

Hume Writing Center

Get help writing dissertations, conference papers, job talks, articles, and fellowship applications.

• Dissertation Boot Camp

PhD Minors and Certificates

• Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities
• PhD Minor in Philosophy, Literature, and the Arts

Stanford Humanities Center

Central hub for the humanities research community at Stanford

Research Centers and Groups

• Arcade
• Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
• Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (CMEMS)
• Center for the Study of the Novel
• Digital Humanities:
  • Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR)
• Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
• McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society
• Research Groups in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL)
• Humanities Research Workshops at the Stanford Humanities Center