The Division of Social Sciences is hosting a major conference at UCSB, “Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion.” This three day, in-person conference on Thursday, May 30 - Sunday, June 2, 2024 seeks to honor, engage, and extend the work of Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson and to inaugurate the gift of the Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive to UCSB.
The departments of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Feminist Studies each received $100,000 grants apiece from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The division of social sciences congratulates graduating recipients of the division and university's most prestigious student honors, awarded for scholastic achievement, extraordinary service, and personal courage and persistence.
Tara Mandrekar has been awarded the Luis Leal Award in recognition of outstanding interdisciplinary academic achievement as a student of the social sciences.
Doctoral student Yuri Fraccaroli is among 45 awardees selected from a nationwide pool of more than 700 Ph.D. students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to win the prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.
Twenty faculty thought leaders, including five social sciences faculty, have been selected to participate in the 2024 cohort of the newly launched Public Voices Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara, in partnership with the OpEd Project.
Political Science Professor and Department Chair Kate Bruhn has authored a newly published book entitled Politics and the Pink Tide - A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America.
