News Categories: Awards

Congratulations to Abbas Milani, one of five recipients of Stanford's Walter J. Gores Award, the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching. It recognizes faculty, teaching staff, and…
Historian Jessica Riskin is among 42 scholars newly elected to the oldest learned society in the U.S. Stanford historian Jessica G. Riskin has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS)…
Five Stanford University scholars, including Center for African Studies Director Joel Cabrita, are among the 224 researchers, artists, and innovators named to the 2026 class of Guggenheim Fellows…
Awardees will conduct research and writing at a two-week interdisciplinary residency in Bulgaria hosted by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. Stanford…
Joel Cabrita, a professor in the Department of History and in the Department of African and African American Studies, has been selected as a co-winner of the 2025 African Studies Association's Aidoo…
Stanford Global Studies has awarded five Stanford faculty members with Course Innovation Awards, which support courses that creatively offer ways for students to learn about topics of regional and…
Stanford Global Studies Division (SGS) provides funding for Global Research Workshops and, in partnership with the Stanford Humanities Center, for Global Humanities Research Workshops to support the…
The Walter J. Gores Award is the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching. It recognizes faculty and teaching staff who have made special contributions to teaching, including lecturing…
The France-Stanford Center is pleased to announce the 2025 student recipients for the James Baldwin and Louise Bourgeois Prizes. The winner of the James Baldwin Essay Prize for a research essay by a…
With cameras and smartphones in hand, members of the Stanford Global Studies community documented meaningful experiences from their adventures around the world—from a lively soccer match in Guinea…