Humanities

New book takes on the dominance of Silicon Valley billionaires

In What Tech Calls Governing, Stanford humanities professor Adrian Daub delivers a blistering critique of America’s tech elites and their growing political power. 

Three dark male silhouettes with tech symbols overlaid on them
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A horizontal canvas covered by orangish brown streaks and the date Mar. 16, 1991 prominently stamped in the middle

New book reflects artists’ perspectives on 1992 Los Angeles riots

Cover of the book Unrest and a portrait of its author, Rose Salseda

Unrest: Art in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots by Rose Salseda, Art and Art History

Cover of the book What Tech Calls Governing and a portrait of its author, Adrian Daub

What Tech Calls Governing by Adrian Daub, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

Portrait of Chang-rae Lee

English professor Chang-rae Lee authors his most personal work yet

Book cover of A Tender Age and a portrait of its author, Chang-rae Lee

A Tender Age: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee, English

Why we can’t quit the ‘Odyssey’

Portrait of Edmonia Lewis

Book looks at resurgence of late-19th-century female sculptor

Portrait of Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal, philosopher known as a ‘builder of bridges,’ dies at 93

Portrait of Lerone Martin next to the cover of his book Young King featuring a portrait of MLK as a child

Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lerone Martin, Religious Studies and African and African American Studies

Portrait of Jessica Riskin in the Stanford arcade

Jessica Riskin elected to American Philosophical Society

Portrait of Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Bringing global histories of gender, race, and citizenship to the AI age

A black-and-white photo of three young black children sitting on a bench

New book illuminates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s childhood

Aracelis Girmay stands a lectern on a stage

Aracelis Girmay wins PEN America poetry prize

Wooden stadium seating leads up to painting covered by a wood-slat ceiling

Inside the new home of the Department of African and African American Studies

Portrait of Jorge Ruffinelli

Jorge Ruffinelli, leading scholar of Latin American literature and film, dies at 82

Four H&S scholars named 2026 Guggenheim Fellows