Call for Digital Public Fellows

This call is open as of April 14, 2026.

Arcade, the open-access website that forms an integral part of the Stanford Humanities Center (SHC)’s online home, is seeking Digital Public Fellows to join the editorial team for the 2026-2027 academic year. A digital salon for the humanities, Arcade publishes research and reflection across disciplines, historical periods, and generations.

Digital Public Fellows gain experience and insight into the world of academic publishing, particularly Open Access publishing, as well as digital publishing, through editorial contributions to Arcade, particularly its Colloquies and Interventions features.

Colloquies are collections of recent or forthcoming work on a topic of emerging interest. Organized by one or more curators who are often senior scholars, the items in a Colloquy may include book chapters, journal articles, videos, blog posts, or informal essays. The thirty-plus partners who provide their content include presses (both academic and commercial), journals, and research institutes. For this feature the Digital Public Fellows consult curators about editorial vision, obtain content from partners, and adapt it to Arcade's format. Colloquies are open to submissions.

Interventions are short posts that embrace the incomplete, the imperfect, and the indeterminate, but they may become much more: for example, the record of a thinker’s turn toward a new paradigm or the rough draft of a chapter in a new book. Rapid publication and immediate responses permit Interventions to foster conversation. Digital Public Fellows are responsible for editing submitted Interventions and for soliciting Interventions submissions.

Digital Public Fellows are Stanford graduate students, often in the earlier stages of their careers, appointed for a one-year term with the possibility of renewal for a second year. They are part of the SHC Fellows community, with access to a wide range of research opportunities, collaboration, and events. They meet on a monthly basis with the SHC Digital Manager to develop editorial strategies and discuss their projects. All Digital Public Fellows receive an hourly wage, and duties of up to 8 hours per week.

Prior experience in editorial positions is preferred. Interested candidates should send a resume and a cover letter to Rachel Karas, Digital Manager at the SHC, at rkaras@stanford.edu.

Republics of Letters (https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publications/rofl) is a digital journal of scholarship, reflection, and conversation concerned with the period 1300 to 1900. The journal’s range is uncommonly broad, not only in period but in discipline and approach, embracing history, literature, art history, music, and other fields of scholarship about the late medieval, early modern, and colonial past.

The journal is currently seeking a new Managing Editor (ME), effective January 2026. ME oversees the production and publication of all Republics of Letters issues and articles. ME reports to the head faculty Editor and/or the faculty Editorial Board (currently Profs. Rowan Dorin, Roland Greene, and Sarah Prodan). ME is responsible for collecting contributions, overseeing peer review, ensuring that each contribution is copy-edited and approved by the author, managing proofreading for each article and noting editing and design errors, and working with the platform design team to publish each article online in appropriate formats (HTML, PDF, etc.).

The Managing Editor will gain experience and insight into the world of academic publishing, particularly Open Access publishing, thanks to the journal's ongoing migration to a new Open Access platform. The first phase of this migration is slated to be completed by December 2025.

The initial ME appointment would run through December 2026, with the possibility of extension into 2027. Applicants should be current Stanford graduate students who are eligible to work eight hours per week throughout the academic year. The rate of pay is $31.25/hr.

Interested candidates should send a resume and cover letter to the Republics of Letters Editorial Board (republics@stanford.edu) by Monday, November 3, 2025.