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Stanford Graduate School of Education is a leader in pioneering new and better ways to achieve high-quality education for all. Faculty and students engage in groundbreaking and creative interdisciplinary scholarship that informs how people learn and shapes the practice and understanding of education. Through state-of-the-art research and innovative partnerships with educators worldwide, the school develops knowledge, wisdom and imagination in its diverse and talented students so they can lead efforts to improve education around the globe.

We admit talented, intellectually curious students to our program, and we motivate them to think differently about learning, their communities, and the world. How will you transform this summer?

The Department of Theater & Performance Studies (TAPS) integrates theory, criticism, and performance. Our interdisciplinary department welcomes students from across the University who want to be involved in intensive, innovative, intellectual work. We foster students' engagement with performance in multiple modes. Students in the department learn analytic skills through research-based scholarship. In collaboration with our academic mission the department produces numerous events through its creative program. Our workshops and artistic productions include canonical plays, commissioned dance works, experimental projects, and work by visiting artists. The Department serves many audiences and facilitates engaged scholarship in dance, theater, and performance.

After a successful tour in New Zealand and Australia, SRT brings Clytemnestra - Tangled Justice to Greece, playing at the Trianon Theater in Napflion, Thursday March 17, 8 pm (with modern Greek supertitles), and the Hellenic American College Auditorium, 22 Massalias Street, Athens, Monday March 21, 7:30 pm. Performed by SRT company artist Courtney Walsh, Clytemnestra - Tangled Justice presents Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy through the eyes of the only character to appear in all three plays. The intense 45-minute one woman show is followed by discussion with Ms. Walsh and director Rush Rehm. Next month make plans to attend SRT's Words and Images to End All Wars, part of Stanford's ongoing commemoration of the centennial of World War I, performed Friday and Saturday April 29 and 30, 8 pm, and Sunday May 1, 2 pm (followed by post-show discussion) at Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building, 355 Roth Way, Stanford campus. Admission is free, and the house opens 30 minutes before curtain. Words and Images to End All Wars is sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Arts Institute, and Stanford Peace + Justice Studies Initiative. Our 2016 summer season Theater Takes a Stand (June – August 2016) features workshop productions of Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City (directed by Alex Johnson) and Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty (directed by Marty Pistone), a free film series, and a community symposium on theater and labor (a range of plays, the Federal Theater Project, the workers' theater movement, class struggle on stage). Please visit http://repertorytheater.stanford.edu in the coming months.

Under the direction of Sports Medicine Center Director, Dr. Gordon Matheson, the Stanford University sports medicine staff coordinates comprehensive medical services to 36 athletic programs and more than 900 student-athletes. Sports medicine center staff include a multidisciplinary health care profession team comprised of team physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, biomechanist, exercise physiologist, and clinical nursing staff.

In 1948, sociology was separated from the economics department at Stanford and relocated in the new Department of Anthropology and Sociology. It was a decade later, in 1957, when sociology achieved its current status as an independent department. Important faculty members during this middle period included Charles N. Reynolds and Richard T. LaPiere. The modern era of sociology at Stanford dates from the years 1959-60 when Sanford M. Dornbusch was invited to chair the department and allowed to make a number of faculty appointments to strengthen the program. Arriving with Dornbusch in that year were Joseph Berger, Santo F. Camilleri, Bernard P. Cohen, and W. Richard Scott. Dornbusch, Berger, Cohen and Scott remained at Stanford throughout their careers. Arriving only slightly later were Morris Zelditch, Jr. and John W. Meyer. Later major additions to the department through the decades of the 1970s and 1980s include, Elizabeth G. Cohen, William J. Goode, Michael T. Hannan, Alex Inkeles, Dudley Kirk, Seymour Martin Lipset, James G. March, and Nancy B. Tuma. Appointments during the 1990s included Karen Cook, Mark Granovetter, Doug McAdam, Susan Olzak, Cecilia Ridgeway, C. Matthew Snipp, and Andrew Walder. These hires were followed by the successful recruitment of Monica McDermott, Michael Rosenfeld, and Gi-Wook Shin. In addition to strengthening the areas of academic concentrations described above, these more recent appointments have allowed the department to offer courses and research training in the additional areas of economic sociology, race and ethnicity, network analysis, political sociology, social movements and social stratification. Most recently, in 2004, the department recruited Paula England and David Grusky, and in 2006, Xueguang Zhou. Since 2008 Shelley Correll, Paolo Paigi, Tómas Jiménez, Cristobal Young, Corey Fields, and Aliya Saperstein have joined the faculty. These hires added significant strength in the areas of social network analysis, historical sociology, sociology of the family, social stratification, organizations, race and ethnicity, and research methods. The department’s current strengths are in social psychology, gender, ethnicity, social inequality, economic sociology, research methods, and political and comparative sociology.

The official Facebook destination for Stanford faculty and staff, Cardinal at Work Connect is an online community where employees can connect with one another, stay updated on what’s happening around campus, get tips and information, and win prizes by participating in exciting contests.

Your student-led fight against cancer at Stanford. Follow us from wherever you may be and get in on the movement. Like us and let your personal news feed be filled with updates, stories, and hope for a cancer-free future! Join us at the 2012 Relay For Life @ Stanford, May 12-13th, 10am-10am! Visit www.relayforlife.org/stanfordca.

Peace & Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that emphasizes the study of nonviolent and transformative approaches to problems such as injustice and violence. Areas of study include the following: 1. Nonviolence, violence, and civil resistance: theories and meanings of nonviolence and violence; history, principles and methods of dissent, communication, art, organizing, and individual and social change. 2. Peacemaking: seeking to prevent, resolve, or transform conflicts -- including war, genocide, human rights violations, non-state and state terrorism, and ecological destruction -- through nonviolent means. 3. Transformative justice: liberation, restoration, reparations, healing, and reconciliation as alternatives to retribution. 4. Well-being: creating and sustaining health and quality of life in individuals, groups, societies, and ecosystems. Peace+justice (or "peace & justice") is a hybrid concept that combines peace with justice, as these terms are usually understood. It is the concept of "true peace" referred to in the 1958 quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.: "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." The Peace+Justice Studies Initiative focuses on the methods and obstacles for achieving peace justly and for achieving justice peacefully, encouraging openness and a critical, rigorous perspective that can help us to learn and become wiser.

With world-renowned faculty, talented graduate and undergraduate students, internationally-recognized library collections, and outstanding institutional support, Stanford University is home to one of the largest and most distinguished East Asian Studies programs in the country. The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), established in 1965, serves as the central hub for students, faculty, and affiliates to come together and share their research and ideas. Over 100 faculty members and lecturers in twenty-seven schools, departments, and programs teach and research on East Asia-related subjects across multiple disciplines and time periods. With East Asia-focused faculty housed in all professional schools—Business, Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, and Medicine—and numerous departments and institutes within the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford programs provide comprehensive coverage of nearly all aspects of East Asia. Stanford's teaching and research is further bolstered by the numerous institutes, centers, research programs, and international collaborative projects which bring scholars, officials, business leaders, postdoctoral fellows, visiting faculty, and delegations to campus, connecting Stanford directly to private industry, government and educational institutions throughout Asia and around the world.

In 1948, sociology was separated from the economics department at Stanford and relocated in the new Department of Anthropology and Sociology. It was a decade later, in 1957, when sociology achieved its current status as an independent department. Important faculty members during this middle period included Charles N. Reynolds and Richard T. LaPiere. The modern era of sociology at Stanford dates from the years 1959-60 when Sanford M. Dornbusch was invited to chair the department and allowed to make a number of faculty appointments to strengthen the program. Arriving with Dornbusch in that year were Joseph Berger, Santo F. Camilleri, Bernard P. Cohen, and W. Richard Scott. Dornbusch, Berger, Cohen and Scott remained at Stanford throughout their careers. Arriving only slightly later were Morris Zelditch, Jr. and John W. Meyer. Later major additions to the department through the decades of the 1970s and 1980s include, Elizabeth G. Cohen, William J. Goode, Michael T. Hannan, Alex Inkeles, Dudley Kirk, Seymour Martin Lipset, James G. March, and Nancy B. Tuma. Appointments during the 1990s included Karen Cook, Mark Granovetter, Doug McAdam, Susan Olzak, Cecilia Ridgeway, C. Matthew Snipp, and Andrew Walder. These hires were followed by the successful recruitment of Monica McDermott, Michael Rosenfeld, and Gi-Wook Shin. In addition to strengthening the areas of academic concentrations described above, these more recent appointments have allowed the department to offer courses and research training in the additional areas of economic sociology, race and ethnicity, network analysis, political sociology, social movements and social stratification. Most recently, in 2004, the department recruited Paula England and David Grusky, and in 2006, Xueguang Zhou. Since 2008 Shelley Correll, Paolo Paigi, Tómas Jiménez, Cristobal Young, Corey Fields, and Aliya Saperstein have joined the faculty. These hires added significant strength in the areas of social network analysis, historical sociology, sociology of the family, social stratification, organizations, race and ethnicity, and research methods. The department’s current strengths are in social psychology, gender, ethnicity, social inequality, economic sociology, research methods, and political and comparative sociology.

This is the official page of the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Our department in the School of Humanities and Sciences comprises 22 distinguished faculty and 14 professional staff members who serve approximately 70 graduate students and 110 undergraduate majors and minors each year. We host over 80 events annually, including the Art History Lecture Series, Studio Lecture Series, special lectures and symposia, gallery exhibitions and receptions, film screenings, and design presentations. Check out our current and upcoming events! All events are free and open to the public (unless otherwise noted). Details are subject to change without notice. For complete information about the department, go to http://art.stanford.edu.

The Program in American Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Building on a foundation of courses in history and institutions, literature and the arts, and race and ethnicity, students bring a range of disciplines to bear on their efforts to analyze and interpret America's past and present, forging fresh and creative syntheses along the way.

The official Facebook destination for Stanford faculty and staff, Cardinal at Work Connect is an online community where employees can connect with one another, stay updated on what’s happening around campus, get tips and information, and win prizes by participating in exciting contests.

The Environmental Humanities Project provides a forum for interdisciplinary approaches to environmental issues. It foregrounds recent research on the environment by humanities scholars in disciplines such as cultural studies, history, literary studies, philosophy and anthropology, in addition to recent work by artists, writers and poets who contribute to current discussions about ecological crisis.

The Mobile Innovation Group is a multi-institution group of researchers at Stanford, INSEAD, and MIT that studies how mobile platforms enable a new set of entrepreneurs and innovative ideas to emerge

Our work… Stanford PACS is a research center for students, scholars and practitioners to explore and share ideas that create social change. Its primary participants are Stanford faculty, visiting scholars, postdoctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and nonprofit and foundation practitioners. As publisher of Stanford Social Innovation Review, Stanford PACS informs policy and social innovation, philanthropic investment and nonprofit practice. SSIR is shared intellectual space where scholars and practitioners publish inter-disciplinary and cross sector research and ideas to advance social change. The journal is complemented by a website, blog, conferences, webinars and podcasts. Stanford PACS has relationships with five schools at Stanford University (Humanities & Sciences, Engineering, Education, Business, and Law) and twenty departments, and we leverage the intellectual assets of a diverse, world-class faculty across the University. This provides a unique platform to share our work with the nonprofit and for profit community in Silicon Valley and globally. Stanford PACS offers postdoctoral fellowships, PhD fellowships and financial support for undergraduates completing honors thesis work. Additionally, Stanford PACS sponsors a regular public speaker series and other symposia and salons that include speakers who are well known academic, foundation or nonprofit leaders. Our leadership… Paul Brest, Professor of Law, Emeritus and Former Dean of the School of Law, and former President of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; and Woody Powell, Professor of Education and by courtesy Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication; Rob Reich, Professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, of Philosophy and at the Graduate School of Education; Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics in Society. Stanford PACS is led by Kim Meredith, its Executive Director who came to the Center with deep nonprofit sector experience, and by distinguished Faculty Co-Directors who teach a quarterly PhD graduate student workshop in addition to their ongoing research, speaking and publishing. Stanford PACS was founded in 2006 by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and faculty co-directors Woody Powell & Debra Meyerson. The Center welcomed our first cohort of four PhD Fellows the same year.

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You may be wondering, "What is the DLCL?" The Stanford Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages. We are located in Pigott Hall Building 260, at the corner of Lasuen and Escondido. The 5 departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, German Studies, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, and Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Language Center, are housed in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (DLCL). Our students and faculty master modern languages and use them to do research in culture, literature, history, politics, and philosophy. In courses in poetry, prose, drama, and film at Stanford and at the Overseas Studies Program, our undergraduates learn to think both critically and globally about how people use language to make sense of the world, to claim an identity and a place in history, to entertain, and to persuade. Our nationally prominent graduate programs are distinguished by regular interaction among scholars of different languages and literatures. Stanford’s PhD students develop their dissertations in conversation with specialists in various world regions and communities, and their rigorous pedagogical training equips them to teach language and literature effectively.

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants toiled at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to help construct America’s First Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project seeks to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and social landscape of the American West. The Project coordinates research in the United States and Asia in order to create an online digital archive available to all. This project tells the story of America, and the people who helped build our country.

Worldview Stanford is an innovative, new Stanford University initiative that creates learning experiences for professionals to help them get smarter about the complex issues and challenges shaping the future—from China and climate change to global demography and brain-science breakthroughs. Worldview combines flexible, online content with an immersive, Stanford-based experience, tailored for decision-makers in business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Our interdisciplinary approach provides the frameworks, content, commentary, and updates that participants need to inform wise decisions – and continue learning long after they’ve left campus.

Established in November 1996, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University provides many opportunities for teaching and research on topics of race and ethnicity from both domestic and international comparative perspectives. Drawing on the intellectual interests of over one hundred Affiliated Faculty representing fifteen departments and programs and five different schools at the University, CCSRE has infused ethnic studies with a new vitality through its research and teaching divisions. Research Institute: The research division sponsors fellowship programs, faculty and graduate student seminar series, research networks, and a variety of other events, conferences and research activities. The Research Institute helps to expand the boundaries of knowledge about important dynamics in human relations related to race and ethnicity. Undergraduate Programs: Informed by the research and intellectual agenda of the Research Institute, the Center houses five interdepartmental undergraduate programs: Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies. Both the teaching and research carried out at CCSRE are based on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for understanding the complex factors of race and ethnicity and how they have deeply shaped the course of history and the social fabric of the contemporary world.

Started in 1997, the Asian American Studies Major and Minor offer students interdisciplinary analytical tools to actively study and research the Asian American experience. Asian American Studies classes cover a broad selection of topics and are offered in departments ranging from History to English to Music, representing the breadth of interests among our diverse faculty members. Whether you are a declared Asian American Studies major or simply interested in learning more, we hope you will find some useful information on what we are, who we are, what we teach, and what some of our alumni have done with a degree in Asian American Studies.