Theater and Performance Studies
The integration of the practical knowledge of theater-making with the humanistic knowledge of the history and theory of performance is central to our department’s vision. At the Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) department, theory and practice are inextricably linked and mutually reinforcing. We prepare our students to become scholar-artists fluent in both of these languages. taps.stanford.edu

Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education
The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (VPGE) is proud to sponsor this production with Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Funds (DIF), a program meant to support Stanford graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the development of a project that will advance graduate student diversity. Stanford’s commitment to diversity is broadly conceived and includes, but is not limited to, culture, socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, and life experience. A diverse community of scholars asks unexpected questions and contributes divergent insights, pushing the forefront of knowledge further and faster. As a result, the Stanford community reaps the educational benefits of diversity, while preparing future generations of leaders for a global society.  vpge.stanford.edu

Stanford Arts Institute
The Stanford Arts Institute offers interdisciplinary arts curricula and research programs including Honors in the Arts, Arts Immersions and Creative Cities. arts.stanford.edu/arts-institute

Queer Student Resources
Queer Student Resources (QSR), formerly the LGBT Community Resources Center, is an organization whose services include mentoring, diversity awareness, lecture series, support groups, workshops, and culture events. This space is one of the oldest campus LGBT centers in the country; there has been an LGBT presence in Stanford’s Firetruck House since the formation of the Gay People’s Union (GPU) in 1971. The intervening decades have seen a dynamic unfolding of student-initiated, student-created, student-implemented campaigns, programs, activities and projects, linked to evolving conceptions of sexual orientation and gender identity and to larger societal struggles for rights and acceptance. queer.stanford.edu

Cardinal Nights
Cardinal Nights seeks to challenge the faulty normative belief that alcohol is needed in order to have fun on a college campus. We are dedicated to de-emphasizing alcohol and reducing high-risk drinking on campus. The mission of Cardinal Nights is to shift the campus culture away from a focus on alcohol by providing premium, equally attractive, non-alcoholic social programming. alcohol.stanford.edu/cardinal-nights

Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies (AAS) began as a scholarly movement in the academy to legitimize the study of Asian peoples and communities in America. Since its intellectual birth in the 1960s, Asian American Studies has brought new forms of scholarship, a new generation of scholars, and an infusion of intellectual vitality to American higher education. The AAS Program at Stanford has done much of the same for this campus over the last 25 years. AAS provides students with the interdisciplinary training necessary to approach complex issues in an interdependent world. Our classes are found across the university, including in the departments of psychology, history, music, art, literature, anthropology, and education. ccsre.stanford.edu 

Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Founded in 1974, the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University has put research into action by inspiring innovative solutions that advance gender equality. Launched when women professors were "firsts" in their positions, the Institute's work today engages faculty and students from Stanford University's seven schools and beyond. The Institute operates as an incubator for collaboration, engaging diverse groups of experts and scholars to identify and tackle the next big questions related to gender equality. For decades, its ground-breaking research — both its in-house research and the interdisciplinary gender research it funds — has effected lasting change. gender.stanford.edu 

Centers for Equity, Community & Leadership

Centers for Equity, Community & Leadership
The Centers for Equity, Community & Leadership (ECL) include the following university departments: Asian American Activities Center (A³C), Black Community Services Center (BCSC), El Centro Chicano y Latino (El Centro), the Markaz Resource Center, Native American Cultural Center (NACC), Queer Student Resources (QSR), and Women's Community Center (WCC). ​

Modern Thought and Literature
Modern Thought and Literature (MTL) is an interdisciplinary graduate program advancing the study of critical issues in the modern world. Since 1971, MTL students have stood at the cutting edge of several interdisciplinary fields and have helped reshape the ways in which disciplinary scholarship is understood and practiced. MTL graduates are leaders in the fields of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Film Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, and Women’s Studies, as well as in the disciplines of English, Cultural Anthropology, and Comparative Literature. mtl.stanford.edu 

Civil & Environmental Engineering Department
​The mission of the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department is to advance education and research in engineering the built and natural environments, with a particular emphasis on long-term sustainability. We use technologies from materials science, physics, biology, mathematics, computing and the social sciences to ask how we can best design and manage the buildings and cities, dams and water systems, highway networks and energy grids that support our daily lives. cee.stanford.edu

Management Science & Engineering Department
​The Department of Management Science & Engineering leads at the interface of engineering, business, and public policy. From our beginnings as a merger of three existing departments—Operations Research, Industrial Engineering-Engineering Management, and Engineering-Economic Systems—we have become one of the most respected Management Science and Engineering departments in the world. The department’s mission is, through education and research, to advance the design, management, operation, and interaction of technological, economic, and social systems. The department’s engineering research strength is integrated with its educational program at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels: graduates of the program are trained as engineers and future leaders in technology, policy, and industry. Research and teaching activities are complemented by an outreach program that encourages the transfer of ideas to the environment of Silicon Valley and beyond. msande.stanford.edu

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
​The Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers an undergraduate major, secondary major, and minor and an interdisciplinary honors program that is open to students in all majors. Each Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies student builds an individual program of study around a self-defined thematic focus that integrates courses from multiple departments. The Program encourages work in the arts and supports creative honors theses. Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies majors may declare Arts & Culture, Global Studies, Health, or LGBT/Queer Studies as their subplan or students may design their own thematic focus. In addition, the Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies offers a PhD minor to students enrolled in a doctorate program at Stanford. feminist.stanford.edu

American Studies
American Studies is an Interdisciplinary Program at Stanford blending courses in history, literature, social sciences and the arts, in which students learn to analyze and interpret America's past and present, forging fresh and creative syntheses along the way.  amstudies.stanford.edu

Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies
As part of the Center for Comparative Studies of Race & Ethnicity, the Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies program is an interdisciplinary unit offering both majors and minors the opportunity to explore the vast complexity of Chicanxs and Latinxs living in America. Established in 1997, the Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies program affords students an opportunity to explore the culture, society, economy, and politics of this important and growing segment of our national population. Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies focuses on the U.S. population with origins in the countries of Mexico, Latin America, and/or South America. The program allows students to take classes across a variety of disciplines, while focusing on the historical and contemporary experiences of Chicanxs and Latinxs in America. ccsre.stanford.edu 

Philosophy Department
The Philosophy Department at Stanford is a lively community of philosophers with a broad range of scholarly interests. The department offers rigorous, competitive programs in traditional core areas of philosophy, as well as opportunities to explore sometimes-neglected subfields like feminist philosophy or aesthetics. The department's traditional strengths in logic and the philosophy of science remain central to the program, and they are now complemented by very strong programs in action theory, ethics and political philosophy, language, mind and epistemology, and the history of philosophy — especially ancient philosophy and Kant studies. philosophy.stanford.edu

Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) is Stanford’s interdisciplinary hub for teaching and research on race and ethnicity. CCSRE houses the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity and the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. In partnership with the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, CCSRE also benefits from the Faculty Development Initiative (FDI) which recruits scholars in race and ethnicity who work with the Center. Across its courses, programs, and events, CCSRE supports students and faculty dedicated to studying race and ethnicity. CCSRE students and scholars approach questions of difference, inequality, and inclusion from dynamic interdisciplinary, comparative, and multiracial/multiethnic perspectives from art to medicine, to law, history, technology, economics, literature and more. ccsre.stanford.edu