“Diversity allows for new shapes, textures and imaginings of knowledge; it encourages the innovation and insight that are essential to the creation of knowledge. A diverse community of scholars asks diverse questions and has diverse insights, and so pushes the forefront of knowledge further faster; providing in turn, a richer educational environment for our students.”
— John Etchemendy, Provost and Professor of Philosophy
“The increasing diversity of anthropological scholars has enlivened intellectual productivity, challenged prevailing assumptions and forced us to think in more rigorous ways. It has helped us to rethink whether homogeneity is the ‘natural’ state of human society.”
— Sylvia Yanagisako, Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Here you will find links to many varied academic programs offered at Stanford that explore and teach about diversity, including matters regarding race, ethnicity, international and global issues. Stanford is very open and committed to multidisciplinary research in the areas of race and ethnicity, and as you will notice from the descriptions of many of our academic programs, faculty from various academic disciplines are working and teaching together to engage students on matters regarding race and ethnicity issues.
- African & African American Studies
- Asia-Pacific Research Center (part of FSI)
- California Universities Consortium
- Center for African Studies
- Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for Latin American Studies
- The Committee on Black Performing Arts
- Department of Religious Studies
- Engineering Diversity Programs
- Feminist Studies
- Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
- Hip-Hop Archive
- International, Comparative, and Area Studies
- Islamic Studies
- Literatures, Cultures,and Languages
- Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute
- Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research
- Office for Religious Life
- Public Theater at Stanford
- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
- Stanford Institute for Diversity in the Arts
- Taube Center for Jewish Studies
- VPUE Diversity Outreach
