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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.

UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows

Twenty faculty thought leaders, including social sciences faculty Nicole Cerpa Vielma (Global Studies),Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies), Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology), Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies),  and France Winddance Twine (Sociology), 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. This fellowship promises to elevate the voices of campus experts by placing their research-based opinion pieces in national and international publications.

UCSB Communication Department Ranked #2 Globally!

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

Professor Kate Bruhn Authors New Book: Politics and the Pink Tide

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. Congratulations on this incredible contribution to the field of Comparative Politics.

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Mellon Foundation awards $100,000 grants to four UCSB social science departments

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded four $100,000 grants apiece to the departments of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and Feminist Studies. These gifts come as part of the multimillion-dollar Affirming Multivocal Humanities Initiative (https://www.mellon.org/features/affirming-multivocal-humanities), committed to supporting racial, ethnic, gender, and sexuality studies in public college and university programs.  

Spring 2024 Political Science Undergraduate Scholarships

Please find below the list of Undergraduate Scholarships offered by the Political Science department for Spring 2024. Further details about each scholarship being offered are included in the linked and below shown flyer.

Note: Applicants for all schoalrships must be in academic residence at UCSB for the upcoming academic year. Click on the name of the scholarship for the application and more details on eligibility. Send all applications to polsci-admin@ucsb.edu. Deadline is Friday, May 17th 2024.