Graduate Students

The Bill Lane Center for the American West is a home for students of the West. We offer a variety of opportunities for graduate students to pursue scholarly interests with faculty and collaborating organizations engaged in studying the challenges of our region.

These opportunities include: 

Courses on the American West

Stanford offers more than a hundred courses that examine the American West in dozens of departments and programs from Anthropology to History and Geological and Environmental Science to Public Policy. 
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Research Opportunities

Graduate students work with Center faculty and staff as research assistants on the Center’s major research initiatives. Flexible, part-time opportunities are available during fall, winter and spring quarter. During the summer, we also have a team of students that work full-time on campus under the direction of a principal investigator.