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Congratulations Class of 2024 Student Awardees!

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. 

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 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.

UCSB Communication Department Ranked #2 Globally!

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

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

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.

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!

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

Tara Mandrekar Receives Luis Leal Award

Tara Mandrekar has been awarded the Luis Leal Award in recognition of outstanding interdisciplinary academic achievement as a student of the social sciences. 

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.

 

UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows

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.