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Faculty-run centers

Front page of Pathways issue titled "Bold Visions"

Illustration from Pathways 2017

Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI)

A mural in the Mission district

Photo by Fabrice Florin (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Changing Cities Research Lab

Silhouettes of people in front of trees

Photo by Peter Thoeny (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Ethnography Lab

Hand-drawn illustration of a map of the United States with people superimposed

Illustration: Alex Albadree

Institute for Advancing Just Societies

Mountains with the sun rising behind them

Japan program

Japan Program

Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul, South Korea

Korea program

Korea Program

A large sculpture of a person, made of metal

Photo by harry_nl (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Laboratory for Social Research

Two people wearing political costumes

Politics and Social Change Lab

Hand-drawn illustration of a group of people

Illustration by Sabrina Newsome: Digital Civil Society Lab Practitioners Fellows Cohort 2021

Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Futuristic Asian city, with drones and flying cars above the skyscrapers

Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab

Aerial picture of Taiwan

Taiwan program

Taiwan Program

Prof. Shelley Correll at a Clayman Conference

VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab

Anshun Bridge in Chengdu, China

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

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Affiliated centers

  • Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
  • Center for Global Ethnography
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  • Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA)
  • Clayman Institute
  • Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
  • Geospatial Center
  • Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Other Stanford centers

  • Center for Work, Technology and Organization
  • Graduate School of Business Behavioral Lab
  • Hoover Institution
  • Spectrum
  • Stanford King Center on Global Development
  • Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
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