Opportunities for Graduate Students
BEAM, Stanford Career Education
Career coaching appointments, workshops, and networking events for both academic and non-academic job searches
- Career coach for PhD students in the humanities: Chris Golde, PhD
- PhD and Postdoc Career Guide (one of the best, most concise guides available)
- Humanists at Large (winter-spring program exploring careers for humanities PhDs throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Apply in the fall.)
Haas Center for Public Service
Opportunities for service and community-engaged scholarship
Graduate Humanities Public Writing Project
Hone your skills at writing about the humanities for non-academic audiences.
A career exploration and planning tool for the humanities and social sciences.
Workshop series exploring the many different career possibilities for doctoral students in the humanities and arts.
Stanford PhD Alumni Employment Project
Learn about the career outcomes of past Stanford PhD graduates
Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE)
Central hub for graduate professional development programs across all disciplines
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:
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
PhD Pathways in Higher Education
Explore non-faculty careers in academic administration
- Stanford PhD Staff Database (connect with over 150 Stanford staff members with PhDs)
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.
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.
American Historical Association
Career Diversity for Historians
American Philosophical Association
Beyond Academia: Professional Opportunities for Philosophers
Modern Language Association
Connected Academics (non-faculty career resources for language and literature PhDs)
The Paideia Institute
The Legion Project (non-faculty career resources for Classics PhDs)
Society for Classical Studies
Stanford's humanities programs also offer many other opportunities to help you develop professionally as a researcher and academic.
Get help writing dissertations, conference papers, job talks, articles, and fellowship applications.
PhD Minors and Certificates
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:
- 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
There is always something happening at Stanford, from lectures and conferences to performing arts, exhibitions, and cultural activities.
Stanford Humanities Center events and workshops
Arts Institute calendar
Cantor Arts Center Calendar
DLCL events
History events
Linguistics events
Music events
Philosophy colloquia and events
Religious Studies events
Stanford Live season calendar
Theater and Performance Studies events