What does it mean to teach a "humanities core" (HumCore) at Stanford today? Over the last few decades, our fields of study have witnessed a growing discomfort with the Western canon. It is no longer tenable to associate humanistic study in California solely with that famous story which starts in Ancient Greece and ends in the United States, stopping along the way in the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Stanford faculty have been taking part in these field-defining conversations for many years.

The following is an excerpt from the "Introduction" (pg. 1-45) of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.

...[as] much we as scholars might reject individualism as part and parcel of the humanist, positivist ways of the past, our working lives—on campus and off—are...

The PublicsLab centers doctoral student wellness, joy, and justice-focused public scholarship, challenging neglectful professionalization, institutional inequities, and traditional notions of the academy while fostering care, equity, and collaboration.

Ramping Up

Once we review the recent attempts at doctoral reforms, it’s difficult not to be discouraged. The defects of doctoral education have remained constant and have resisted any number of solutions. Given the lack of communication among all ­those concerned with gradu­ate school (including the...

Art-thinking refers to the epistemological possibilities that art pursues as a mode of examining and engaging with the world.

Beauty, whether in the animal or human world, exists in the eye of the beholder. Evolution is as much about allure, sensory delight, and subjective experiences as it as about survival of the fittest.