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UCSB Moot Court Advances to Preliminary Round of the National Tournament!

Congratulations to UCSB Moot Court for their stellar job in representing UCSB by advancing to the final round of the competition season and qualifying to compete on a national stage!

Moot Court at UCSB is an 18 student organization with a total of 9 2-person teams.

Academy of Management inductee Linda Putnam establishes award for organizational research scholars

A pioneering and career-long scholar in the field of organizational communication and the science of negotiation and conflict management, Linda Putnam, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita in the department of Communication, will be inducted as a fellow into the Academy of Management.

Congratulations Class of 2024 Student Awardees!

The division of social sciences congratulates graduating recipients of the university's most prestigious student honors, awarded for scholastic achievement, extraordinary service, and personal courage and persistence. 

Congratulations Class of 2024!

A big congratulations to our newest alumni - UCSB's Class of 2024! 

Tara Mandrekar Receives Luis Leal Award

Tara Mandrekar (Political Science BA & Feminist Studies BA) has been awarded the Luis Leal Award in recognition of outstanding interdisciplinary academic achievement as a student of the social sciences. The award was established in honor of the late Luis Leal, a professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano Studies, whose presence and scholarship greatly enriched the Santa Barbara campus.

UCSB Feminist Studies Doctoral Student Yuri Fraccaroli Wins Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship

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. Fraccaroli is a first-generation doctoral student from Brazil pursuing research in the feminist studies department based on their work as an educator, artist and researcher with Acervo Bajubá, an LGBT+ community archive in São Paulo. They will use the funding and support from the award to expand the scope of their winning dissertation, “Archivo vivo!

UCSB Social Sciences Hosts "Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion" Conference to Inaugurate Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archive Gift

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 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.

UCSB Communication Department Ranked #2 Globally!

UCSB's department of Communication has been ranked as the second best Communication program worldwide.