Jeremy Sabol in Paris

Jeremy Sabol, associate director of Stanford’s structured liberal education (SLE) program, specializes in early modern intellectual history, with a focus on philosophy and literature and their relationships to broader historical phenomena. In addition to teaching undergraduates in the SLE program, he has taught courses in the university’s master of liberal arts program, co-teaching the program’s foundations sequence, which provides incoming masters students with a broad intellectual framework for graduate study—from Aristotle to Jean- Paul Sartre.

During his graduate studies, he focused on the thought and culture of 16th- and 17th-century France, particularly on figures such as René Descartes and Michel de Montaigne, the mayor of Bordeaux from 1581 to 1585. Jeremy and his wife travel to France and Spain every summer, visiting relatives in Barcelona and cycling in Provence. He is thrilled to be leading our family exploration of Paris this summer.

• Phi Beta Kappa Award for Teaching, 2015

• Teaching fellow, French, Yale University, 1997–2001

• Producer, This Is Hamlet, 2010, and This Is Macbeth, 2008, by Reinventing the Wheel

• BA, physics and literature, 1994, UC-Santa Cruz

• Pensionnaire étranger, 1999–2000, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

• MA, 1996, and PhD, 2002, French, Yale University