Careers of Humanities Alumni

Studying the humanities at Stanford can lead to a successful career in many fields. Employers across every industry want to hire creative problem solvers who can think critically, look at problems in new ways, express their ideas effectively, and work well in teams—skills that are an essential part of Stanford’s many undergraduate programs in the humanities.

Explore careers that humanities majors from Stanford have pursued since 2001. Our students are not only leaders but also thoughtful, engaged citizens whose work has purpose and meaning, for themselves and for the world.

Department or Program	Title	Organization
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity	Project Engineer	Integral Group (green engineering firm)
English	Collections Manager, Arts and Artifacts Collection	Harvard Business School
Classics	Product Marketing Manager	Google
Linguistics	Emergency Medicine Doctor	Medstar Union Memorial Hospital
History	Assistant Professor of History	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguistics	High School Spanish Teacher	Citrus Hill High School
Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity	Head of Enterprise Initiatives	Lyft
Philosophy	Associate	Armstrong Teasdale LLP
History	High School History Teacher / Department Chair	Hopkins School
Theater and Performance Studies	Owner	Kings County Brewers Collective
Music	Singer-Songwriter	Self-Employed
English	Reporter	Forbes Magazine
Linguistics	Vice President of Operations	AltSchool
Classics	Associate	Goodwin Procter LLP
Theater and Performance Studies	Recruiting Manager	Facebook
Art and Art History	Marketing Coordinator	Chicago Architecture Foundation
Art and Art History	Analyst	BlackRock (financial services)
Music	Senior Research Scientist	Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins University
African and African American Studies	Global Music Strategist	YouTube
Art and Art History	Director of Collections and Exhibitions	Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages	Senior Product Manager	McGraw-Hill Education
Linguistics	President and Founder	Leyenzal - A Yiddish Literacy Project
Philosophy	Program Assistant	Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding
Music	Founder and CEO	Alopex Advisors, LLC
Philosophy	Head of Product	Flickr
Theater and Performance Studies	Video Editor	One to One Box (video production company)
Music	Doctoral Candidate, Music and Cognitive Science	University of California, San Diego
Theater and Performance Studies	Co-Creator, Writer, Director, and Producer	Tiger Dad Comedy
English	Founder and Director, Board of Directors	SSB Bart Group
Classics	Consultant	Bain & Company
African and African American Studies	Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and African Diaspora Studies	University of Texas, Austin
Music	Architectural Designer	Gehry Partners, LLP
Linguistics	Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology	University of California, Berkeley
Linguistics	Speech-Language Pathologist, Clinical Instructor	Northwestern University
Art and Art History	Senior Writer	Entertainment Weekly