Visiting Scholars

The Center supports an active program of visitors to Stanford University through the generous funding of The Elfenworks Foundation. In addition, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported predoctoral and postdoctoral visitors in 2007-08.

The Elfenworks Foundation Visiting Scholars Program

The Elfenworks Foundation Visiting Scholars Program brings leading scholars and practitioners to Stanford University to carry out research, teach classes, and inform public debate on poverty and inequality policy. Each year, the Elfenworks Foundation funds two visitors, a distinguished scholar who spends one or two semesters in residence delivering several public lectures and writing a book for the Controversies in Inequality book series, and a visiting lecturer who contributes to our newly developed graduate and undergraduate programs in poverty and inequality. These visitors also contribute regularly to the Elfenworks Foundation magazine Poverty, Inequality, and Policy.

The Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

In 2007-08, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a Sawyer Seminar at Stanford University titled "The Dynamics of Inequality," a seminar exploring recent dramatic changes in the structure and amount of social inequality. The Mellon Foundation brought a postdoctoral fellow to Stanford University in 2007-08 to participate in the year-long faculty seminar on social inequality.

Mellon Graduate Fellows

The Mellon Foundation additionally supported predoctoral fellows who also participated regularly in the 2007-08 Sawyer Seminar on "The Dynamics of Inequality."