Description
Administrative records of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences include executive director's correspondence,
Board of Directors meeting minutes and agendas, financial records, reports, grant files, statistical information on Center
fellows, and other records.
Background
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS) is a national and international resource
that exists to extend knowledge of the principles governing human behavior to help solve the critical problems of contemporary
society. CASBS offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars from this country and abroad.
Since 1954, CASBS fellowships have been awarded to scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines. These include the five
core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as
scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological sciences.
Extent
43.5 Linear feet
(29 boxes)
Restrictions
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.