Our Faculty

Global Recognition

Stanford faculty members hold Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. They balance ground-breaking research and constant invitations to lecture around the world. They hold patents and poetry awards. They are repeatedly consulted by and asked to become high-ranking government officials and noted corporate executives. But despite these accomplishments, in the end they are most distinguished by the genuine excitement they exhibit when working closely with undergraduates.  Among our faculty include:

• The senior director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council during the Clinton administration” to “The special assistant to President Obama for National Security Affairs and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs at the US National Security Council
• An Academy-Award-winning filmmaker
• A winner of the National Medal of Science and a pioneer in transplanting genes from one cell to another, which led to the field of genetic engineering
• A two-time Pulitzer prize winner for national reporting for exposing corruption in the grain exporting industry and for showing the destructive impact of American agriculture on the environment
• The creator of the TeX typesetting system, which allows anyone to produce high-quality books
• The lead author of the 2007 International Panel on Climate Change
• The author of the nation’s leading casebook on constitutional law
• The founder of the world’s first sleep laboratory

community of scholars

Stanford students find in their professors to be a curious community of scholars who are appreciative of diversity and bold in their outlooks. These faculty members serve as research mentors and Resident Fellows, freshman advisors and internship sponsors. They are accessible during office hours and at dorm dinner tables.

Stanford recognizes both the teacher and the student as scholars, a perspective that fosters mentoring relationships between faculty and students. This sense of collaboration creates an environment that rewards teamwork, promotes progress, and challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Undergraduate development

Faculty across campus – including graduate and professional school faculty – share their interests and passions with undergraduates. They design freshman seminars based on their passions, lead sophomore college courses to chart a new direction in their research, and teach courses at overseas campuses that provide comparative explorations of major issues.

At each step of the undergraduate career, our student can meet and work closely with faculty members who will become mentors, advisors, and friends. They will teach our students as much about life as they will about the subject of their course.