International Visitors Program | Stanford Humanities Center

Full Job Description

The International Visitors Program at the Stanford Humanities Center encourages innovative research with a global reach by connecting international experts in the humanities, arts, and social sciences with the Stanford community.

Since 2009, the program has brought over ninety distinguished academics, journalists, public intellectuals, and artists from countries around the world, with additional visitors joining the Humanities Center community each year.

During their monthlong residencies, the visitors share their research and experience through scholarly presentations, workshops, and informal conversations spanning campus and wider audiences. Often, these experts have worked in similar fields or on complementary projects with their campus counterparts. The visitors benefit from access to the Center’s community of fellows and Stanford libraries/archives, in addition to time to brainstorm, write, and forge ongoing intellectual collaborations.

Stanford departments, programs, or centers may nominate a visitor for a one month residency at the Stanford Humanities Center, submitting the documents indicated below. Nominations are reviewed and selected on an ongoing basis, pending availability and sufficient administrative lead time.

Funding support: The visitor must be supported by funds from their nominating unit or other sources (e.g., their own research grants or other funding); this includes support for travel, visa, and living expenses during their residency.

The Humanities Center provides administrative support for the visitor’s residency, including preparing the visa (as relevant) and Stanford onboarding. The Center also provides dedicated office space, lunches, and access to the wider SHC fellows’ community. Visitors are immersed into an interdisciplinary community of scholars, with access to workshops, lectures, programming, and campus libraries and other resources. They are often invited to guest lecture in Stanford undergraduate and graduate classes, present at research workshops, give public talks, carry out joint projects with Stanford colleagues, and conduct research in libraries and archives.

Nominating units are encouraged to host activities with the candidate: e.g., student workshops, faculty discussion sessions, departmental lectures, colloquia, etc. Visitors may not offer courses for credit.

For further questions about the International Visitors Program, please contact Svetlana Turetskaya, International and Academic Programs Manager.

Information for Nominating UnitsNomination Process

Nominations by Stanford units should include:

• Brief rationale for nomination (500-1,000 words) from chair or program director
• Nominee’s CV
• Statement by nominated visitor describing the writing/research project to be pursued during the fellowship, including how a residency at the Humanities Center will be of benefit (~750 words)
• An explanation of adequate funding support (whether from Stanford unit(s), visitor’s own research funds, etc.)
• A description of possible event(s) with the visitor hosted by nominating unit (recommended)
• Additional letters of support from Stanford units (optional)

Nomination Process

Nominations by Stanford units should include:

• Brief rationale for nomination (500-1,000 words) from chair or program director
• Nominee’s CV
• Statement by nominated visitor describing the writing/research project to be pursued during the fellowship, including how a residency at the Humanities Center will be of benefit (~750 words)
• An explanation of adequate funding support (whether from Stanford unit(s), visitor’s own research funds, etc.)
• A description of possible event(s) with the visitor hosted by nominating unit (recommended)
• Additional letters of support from Stanford units (optional)

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