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Amit Ahuja Named as One of India's Leading Intellectuals by ThePrint

Amit Ahuja, Associate Professor of Political Science at UCSB, was named by ThePrint as one of India's political thought leaders to watch out for in the next decade. Ahuja is the author of Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements, which won the 2020 New India Foundation Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize.

UCSB Students Start Free Tutoring Program for Local Children

In 2023, Jessica Lickstein, a third-year sociology major at UCSB, started Education+, an organization composed of fellow UCSB students that offers free virtual tutoring for students in grades K-8. Education+ was born out of Lickstein's experience volunteering in a kindergarten classroom and witnessing first-hand the education disparities between children from low-income families and children from moderate- or high-income families.

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!