Workshops

• Stanford Public Humanities is proud to present the new Public Knowledge Toolkit Series: A zoom lunchtime series offering scholars the opportunity to to learn about a valuable under-discussed element of how academic research and knowledge production can meet a public audience.
• Please stay tuned for news of more faculty-specific workshops here. 

If you are not already on our mailing list and want to join to learn more about these opportunities, please email Natalie Jabbar at njabbar [at] stanford.edu (njabbar[at]stanford[dot]edu) 

Summer 2025--A summer-long magazine writing intensive with Charles Petersen, the Harold Hohbach historian at Stanford’s Silicon Valley Archives. Petersen is a former member of the editorial staff at the New York Review of Books and a longtime senior editor at n+1 who has written for Art in America, Bookforum, and The Nation as well as n+1, The New York Review, and many other publications.

Winter 2024--A month-long workshop on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle, alongside Natalie Jabbar, Associate Director of Stanford Public Humanities. 

Spring 2023--An intensive three-day magazine-writing workshop with New Yorker Ideas Editor, Joshua Rothman. 

Fall 2022--A month-long working on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Molly Atlas and editor Hilary Redmon. 

Fall 2021--A month-long workshop  on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Alia Hana Habib and editor Vanessa Mobley. 

Spring 2021--A month-long workshop on writing a book for a general audience with literary agent Tina Bennett and book editor Alexander Star (FSG). The goal: to help faculty develop a book idea for a general/non-academic audience and plan the elements of a trade book proposal.

Winter 2021--Following on the success of the first public humanities workshop, a second virtual workshop on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle. 

Spring 2020--The first public humanities workshop: a month-long workshop held over zoom on writing and publishing op-eds with Lois Kazakoff, former deputy editorial page director of the San Francisco Chronicle.