Stanford Archives Reference and Research Guide: Administrators, faculty, and staff
This guide offers an introduction to researching Stanford history using University Archives collection materials and includes instructions for identifying, accessing and working with Special Collections materials.
Administrators, faculty, and staff
In addition to the general resources shared above, the Archives provides access to many specific resources -- archival collections, oral histories, publications, exhibits, archived websites, data sets, and more -- to aid in your research into Stanford administrators, faculty, and staff:
Archival collections
- Archival collections in the Stanford Archives can be searched and paged for physical review using the Online Archive of California. A few notable areas of the collection to explore include:
- Biographical files, including the Stanford University, Board of Trustees, biographical files, 1918-1975, the Stanford University biographical files collection, circa 1891-2011, and the Stanford News Service records, 1891-2020.
- Administrative records, including Board of Trustees meeting records, Presidential records, Provostial records, and Faculty Senate records.
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Faculty papers, including the Paul Berg papers, Carolyn Bertozzi papers, Frederick Emmons Terman papers, and Yamato Ichihashi papers.
Oral histories
- Oral histories conducted through the Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program include Faculty Interviews, as well as interviews with Trustees, Presidents/Provosts, Vice Presidents/Vice Provosts, Deans, Faculty Senate, Staff, and more.
Online exhibits
- Board of Trustees
- Computer Science at Stanford
- Edward Feigenbaum exhibit
- Faculty Senate of the Academic Council
- Hopkins Marine Station
- Hume Center for Writing and Learning
- John Gardner exhibit
- Matt Kahn exhibit
- Stanford in the News
- Service Learning at Stanford
- Stanford Prison Experiment / Philip Zimbardo exhibit.
- Stanford Syllabi (2007-2016)
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky exhibit
Serial publications
- Annual reports to the President, 1904-1948
- Faculty Senate memorial resolutions,
- Faculty-Staff Newsletter 1957-1968
- Campus Report 1968-1995
- Stanford Report 1995-2009
- Sandstone and Tile
Monograph publications
- A Chronology of Stanford University and its Founders. Karen Bartholomew, Claude Brinegar, Roxanne Nilan, eds., 2001.
- Donald B. Tresidder: Stanford's Overlooked Treasure. Edwin Kiester, 1992.
- The Last of Your Springs. Donald Kennedy, 1998.
- The Stanford Senate of the Academic Council: Reflections on Fifty Years of Faculty Governance, 1968-2018: Written, compiled and edited by Peter Stansky, Ethan W. Ris, Susan W. Schofield, Hans N. Weiler and past senate chairs and academic secretaries, 2018.
- Stanford's Wallace Sterling: Portrait of a Presidency, 1949-1968. Roxanne L. Nilan, Cassius L. Kirk Jr., 2023.
- Voices from the Hennessy Presidency: Collected Interviews with University Leaders, 2000-2016. Eric Knight, ed., 2023.
Archived websites
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