Provostial Fellows
Since 2021, the Stanford Provostial Fellows program has brought early-career scholars to Stanford University. The program launched with an inaugural cohort of five fellows for the first four years, and welcomed three fellows in the fall of 2025. Fellows from across the university engage in research about the societal impacts through a disciplinary lens, teach one course per year, and participate in the intellectual life of their departments and programs across the university. Ultimately, the majority of Fellows pursue a career in the professoriate.
About the Program
Stanford announced in June 2020 a new program to bring early-career scholars of race and ethnicity to the university. This ambitious program, part of the broader Stanford IDEAL initiative, aims to support the work of early-career researchers who will lead the next generation of scholarship in various academic disciplines.
Cohorts of three to five recent PhD recipients who are among the most promising emerging scholars in their respective disciplines are selected each year by a committee of Stanford faculty and appointed by the provost to a three-year term. Fellowships may be in any university school. Fellows are assigned to departments and schools where they work with a faculty mentor and colleagues, teach one course per year, and expand their research. Fellows also engage with the program's intellectual lifeand the broader university community.
Fellows bring new ideas, methodologies, and perspectives that enrich the community of scholars at Stanford, and they organize an annual capstone project, usually a symposium at Stanford University, that engages scholars at the forefront of scholarship in the study of race and ethnicity.