• About: about us and why you should consider studying race and ethnicity at Stanford
• Programs: shared features of the programs and how to declare a major or minor
• Events: find out what's happening in CCSRE and around campus
• Opportunities: available for all students majoring or minoring in our programs such as summer internships, honors, and our service learning initiative
• People: learn more about our students, our alumni, and how to contact us

This website describes the shared features of the undergraduate programs. For more information on a specific program, such as its faculty and course offerings, visit the individual program websites:Asian American Studies, Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, Comparative Studies, Jewish Studies, and Native American Studies.

David Palumbo-Liu, a professor of comparative literature, was recently elected chair of the 46th Faculty Senate, which will convene at the start of the 2013-14 academic year. Currently, he is the senate's vice chair.

Palumbo-Liu, who earned a doctorate incomparative literature at the University of California-Berkeley in 1988, joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor. He became a full professor in 2001.

He is the undergraduate program director and chair of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and of Asian American Studies at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He also is the director of the Department of Comparative Literature and the department's director of graduate studies.

Palumbo-Liu is most interested in issues regarding social theory, community, race and ethnicity, justice, globalization, ecology and the specific roles that literature and the humanities play in helping people address each of these areas.

His latest book is The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age, published by Duke University Press in 2012.

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