Stanford University Department of History

Home to a world-renowned faculty, the Department of History offers programs of study for undergraduate and graduate students. Through a diverse array of courses spanning the globe and ranging from the ancient world to the modern era, students can prepare for variety of fascinating careers and for citizenship in a globalized world. Faculty and Lecturers in the Department are among the leaders in their fields of scholarship, publishing numerous books each year, winning prestigious fellowships and awards, and shaping the public conversation with op-eds, media interviews, and public-facing events. Their approaches to history and fields of chronological and geographical expertise range widely, from Africa and Asia to the United States, from intellectual history to social and transnational approaches, and from gender to digital history. We are in Lane History Corner (Building 200) on the main Stanford campus. Read this buildings storied history and browse oral history interviews with so...