Fourteen graduate students from six UC campuses joined in a convening of Humanities Graduate Fellows....
Low-resource research raises urgent questions about power and who has it—questions that are technical, ethical, and epistemological. Dominant research tools often fail in contexts they weren’t designed for, introducing bias and excluding marginalized knowledge systems. These gaps can lead to significant power imbalances, where the...
Sound is movement and, by nature, a transitory event: a release of vibrational energy that travels through complex, non-linear pathways. To study sound, then, is to attune to processes of transit, movement, and migration across media and across material, geographical, or social borders. While this movement...
Watch or listen to recordings of IHC events....
Five UCSB doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects....
Read about WORD Magazine's contributions the Madonnari Street Painting Festival 2025...
Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
The IHC is pleased to announce its faculty release time and collaborative award winners. Read more about their exciting, interdisciplinary projects....
Read about Cypris's experience as the Public Engagement Fellow at the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation....
Ten graduate students from across the UC system were awarded research fellowships by their home campus and joined in a convening of Fellows...
Read about Maria's internship working on the Climate Arts Project with the Community Environmental Council....
Over the past decade, Sinophone studies, which first emerged in the discussions of literature, have garnered significant scholarly interest and have become a burgeoning field of research that transcends disciplinary boundaries. By exploring various Sinitic languages and cultures, “Sinophone” as a critical concept challenges the...
One of the most systematically ignored roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the intimate connection of two catastrophes, the Shoah (“catastrophe” in Hebrew) and the Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic). The annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazis (commonly referred to by the catachresis “Holocaust”) and...
Word Magazine was awarded prizes by the Associated Collegiate Press for excellence in student journalism...
Watch or listen to recent Imagining California and Humanities Decanted events and others from the IHC’s archive on SoundCloud and YouTube. Follow us @ihcucsb for updates on new event recordings....
The IHC’s 2024-25 public events series will explore Key Passages: processes of transition and experiences of transformation—historical events, social movements, global dislocations, and journeys undertaken—that have altered thought, shifted cultural paradigms, or sparked other forms of consequential change. The series will also examine temporal passages,...
Read about Megan's internship working on public programming and equity initiatives with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation....
Read about MacKenzie's fellow-designed community project with Food Tank to educate and inform policy on food systems change....
The IHC is pleased to announce that UCSB faculty and graduate students were awarded a number of UCHRI grants in the 2023-2024 awards competition!...
The IHC launched the Making of Monuments, a place-based civics education project for elementary school students in Santa Barbara, organized around the statue of Spanish King Carlos III at the Presidio...
October 2, 2023 | By Solaire Denaud...
Seventeen graduate students from across the UC system were awarded research fellowships by their home campus and joined in a convening of Fellows....
The Ghana Studies Research Focus Group builds on a new strength in Ghana studies on the UC Santa Barbara campus. It offers an opportunity to explore a set of themes from different disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. The Research Focus Group has been initiated by a...
Read about the year's highlights in the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, including new fellows, fellows completing the program, capstone presentations, internships and community projects, and more....
WORD Magazine contributed a chalk drawing to the 2023 I Madonnari Street Painting Festival...
Five UCSB doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects....
April 28, 2023 | By Kira Weiss...
Read about Heath's internship with Direct Relief....
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Winter 2023 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
Read about Shannon's internship working on the Filipino Oral History Project with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation....
The IHC is pleased to announce its faculty release time and collaborative award winners. Read more about their exciting, interdisciplinary projects...
Read about Lauren's Fellow-Designed Project with Arizona Students Recycling Used Technology (AZ StRUT)....
Read about Kenzie's internship with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County....
Graduate students from across the UC system gather to share about their work and participate in a communication workshop....
September 8, 2022 | By Megan J. Sheard...
Read about Morgane's fellow-designed community project with the European Middle East Project....
Learn about the 2023 Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop hosted by the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts....
July 26, 2022 | By Olivia Henderson...
Increasing attention to the interconnection between creative writing and critical thinking has produced programs and courses that focus on the craft of writing itself as a mode of analysis and a form of research. Mergers between the creative and the critical stem from multiple impulses,...
Legal humanities views law and culture as mutually constitutive domains. Law, after all, is the site where theory meets practice, where ideals wrestle with norms, and morality and ethics confront politics and regulation. Legal humanities seeks to understand how law makes meaning and produces effects...
The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group takes an interdisciplinary perspective on childhood in literature, culture, media, and society. We suggest that childhood is best approached methodologically from the vantage point of diverse global traditions, while considering the media and social construction of childhood mediated...
The IHC “Emotions in History” Research Focus Group seeks to create a space where scholars can cross disciplinary lines and together investigate emotions in the human past. Led by a historian and a psychologist, our group aims to bring into dialogue two cutting-edge subfields—the history...
The Caribbean is the vortex of early capitalism, social identity, and cultural anxiety. It is the site of first colonial contact, conquests, institutions, and taxonomies. Therefore, we gather under the urgency of unpacking the spacetime ripple effects of this global capitalist accumulation, what it has...
The IHC was thrilled to host students veterans at the UC Student Veterans Summer Writing Workshop for a week of writing about their military experiences....
Read about George’s fellow-designed community project with BLM Paterson to create a digital map of housing inequality....
Read about the year's highlights in the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, including new fellows, fellows completing the program, capstone presentations, internships and community projects, and more....
Five UCSB doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects....
June 4, 2022 | Location TBD The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites submissions for our Graduate Student Symposium on topics concerning Asian American studies, broadly defined. This one-day symposium will offer an informal environment for graduate students to come...
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Winter 2022 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
May 14-15, 2022 | Zoom A Collaboration Between the UCSB Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Focus Group “What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” Many scholars have questioned what the rise of globalization, facilitated through new forms...
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Fall 2021 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Faculty Collaborative and Fellowship Awards!...
Eighteen graduate students from across the UC system were awarded research fellowships by their home campus and joined in a convening of Fellows....
A welcome message from IHC Director Susan Derwin about the IHC's Regeneration public events series, and more....
Read about Tudisco’s summer internship with the nonprofit organization and restorative justice program, PREP....
Graduate Student Funding Opportunity - The Humanities Without Walls Pre-Doctoral program aims to help prepare doctoral students for careers both within and outside the academy through a series of summer workshops....
A message from IHC Director Susan Derwin about the past year and the IHC's public events series theme for next year, Regeneration....
Conveners: Leticia García, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies lcgarcia@ucsb.edu Grace Kimball, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies gracekimball@ucsb.edu Shaun Nowicki, English shaunnowicki@umail.ucsb.edu Anita Raychawdhuri, English araychawdhuri@ucsb.edu “What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty focused on investigating the notion of ‘global Shakespeare.’ We are interested in...
“Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender” is an IHC Research Focus Group bringing together graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to investigate the critical intersections of race and gender in premodern studies. We engage the ‘premodern’ as a way of addressing the resonances...
Read about the year's highlights in the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, including new fellows, fellows completing the program, capstone presentations, internships and community projects, and more....
Read about MacMahon's work to expand the educational and interpretative missions of the Nevada State Railroad Museum....
The IHC is pleased to announce that UCSB faculty and graduate students were awarded a number of UCHRI grants in the 2021-2022 awards competition!...
Five UCSB doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects....
Read about McIntosh's work to increase student engagement with the humanities and humanities-related courses at UCSB through the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC)....
April 2, 2021 | By Grace Kimball...
March 1, 2021 | By Heath Pennington...
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Winter 2021 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
Read about Jaqua's work toward increasing student engagement with HFA programs at UCSB with the Office of the EVC....
Read about Hughes's work chronicling Direct Relief's response to the COVID-19 pandemic....
Read about Son's work building a website for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County's Foodboss curriculum....
December 11, 2020 | By Christopher MacMahon...
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Fall 2020 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Faculty Collaborative and Fellowship Awards!...
Read about Ahdifard's work developing interpretive programming for Santa Barbara's Casa de la Guerra....
Susan Derwin and Neil Kreisel discuss the role of the humanities in democratic society and the IHC's community engaged programs....
Read about Zaynetdinova's recently completed internship with Direct Relief....
Watch IHC Director Susan Derwin's interview with Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino on KZAA Radio's ¡Que Madre! show, which aired on October 15, 2020....
As we embark on another academic year, we at the IHC are looking forward to partnering with you in pursuit of our mission to advance knowledge about human experience in cultural, historical, and social contexts, through programs that foster human agency, social connectivity, and civic...
Read about Uppal's recently completed fellow-designed community project with the American Red Cross....
September 1, 2020 | By Mika Thornburg...
This new grant enables HFA faculty to integrate collaborative possibilities into their remote teaching....
Read about Thornburg's recent internship with Digital Delano, an archive hosted by Bakersfield College Delano Campus Library....
The Disability Studies Initiative RFG engages with the Medical Humanities and strives to destigmatize impairment and illness by examining the political, social, and cultural constructions of disability as a political identity and literatures, cultures, and histories so as to shed light on current ideas of disability within broad contexts. Bringing...
August 4, 2020 | By Nathan Cox...
July 30, 2020 | By Jordan Tudisco...
July 28, 2020 | By Shannon Toribio...
July 16, 2020 | By Kenzie Wade...
Read about Jasmine's fellow-designed community project working with the Pan-African Movement for Justice (PAMJ), a non-profit organization based in Sweden....
The Asian/American Studies Collective aims to further the interdisciplinary study of the historical and contemporary experiences of racialized Asian populations in the US. We also seek to highlight the various intersections of positionalities and experiences within Asian American communities and to connect these to broader...
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The IHC congratulates seven UCSB recipients of UC-wide humanities research awards....
This collection of recent articles explores the value and interventions of the humanities in the midst of pandemic, both historically and currently....
This week, a group of IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellows will begin internships with nonprofit and cultural organizations in the Santa Barbara area as part of the IHC’s Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, which prepares Ph.D. students for careers as dynamic, socially engaged humanists both within...
The IHC is delighted to announce that Ben Olguín, Professor and Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Grant....
The IHC is pleased to announce the 2020-21 Research Focus Groups (RFG). The RFG program brings together faculty and graduate students with shared research interests from different fields and departments/programs to foster the development of interdisciplinary research agendas....
Watch Public Humanities Graduate Fellow interns Francisco Beltrán and Mika Thornburg discuss their work with Digital Delano, an archive hosted by Bakersfield College....
Alesha Claveria is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Theater and Dance. Her research interests include contemporary Native North American drama and Indigenous theory. As an IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow, Claveria interned at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB)....
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Reuben Jonathan Miller, Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA), a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic....
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Aaron Huey, Creative Director of Amplifier.org, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic....
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Spring 2020 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Faculty and Dissertation Fellowships....
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Roland Geyer, Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic....
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Jared Diamond, UCLA Professor of Geography, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic....
Although the McCune Conference room remains dark and our offices unoccupied, we have been enthusiastically at work on programs that support UCSB faculty and students and that serve our broader community....
The IHC has postponed all events that were scheduled for Spring 2020....
The IHC is pleased to announce the winners of its Winter 2020 awards applications. Congratulations to the winners of Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
The IHC is delighted to announce that Mona Damluji, Professor of Film and Media Studies, has won an NEH Faculty Fellowship for her book project, Pipeline Cinema....
The IHC is pleased to announce the winners of its awards for the Fall 2019 competition. Congratulations to the winners of Faculty Fellowships and Faculty Collaborative Awards!...
Read about Anna’s fellow-designed community project working with a speech-language pathologist (SLP) to develop linguistic resources for SLPs who work with the Mixtec community in Ventura County....
Olga Faccani is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Classics specializing in ancient theater. She is interested in community building and the power of story-telling to connect different audiences. As an IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow, Faccani completed an internship at New Beginnings Counseling Center in Santa Barbara....
Chelsea Lonergan is a graduate student in the Department of Communication’s Media Neuroscience Lab, where she studies cognitive sex differences, hormonal stress response, and moral evaluations of media content. As an IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow, Lonergan completed an internship at the Superior Court...
Emma John, second-year PhD student in History and IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow, is currently completing an internship at the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, and has been working with the Casa de la Guerra, a historic house museum maintained by the Trust and former residence of...
The Transregional East Asia RFG aims to foster a deep understanding of the transregional linkages within East Asia both historically and in the present. Our meetings bring together faculty and students from diverse departments working on topics related to China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and...
Parameters of Play brings together an interdisciplinary cohort of graduate students and faculty members from Film and Media Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, English, and other fields to consider the videogame as an object of study in the midst...
This Research Focus Group brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and students whose work touches on the Mediterranean in different ways, providing an opportunity to rethink the meaning of the Mediterranean and what constitutes—and distinguishes—“Mediterranean themes.” The focus will be on global connections, both...
The IHC is pleased to announce the winners of its awards for the Spring 2019 competition. Congratulations to the winners of Faculty Fellowships, Faculty Collaborative Awards, and our 2019-20 IHC Dissertation Fellows!...
Francisco Beltrán is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara. He focuses on U.S. history with an emphasis on Chicana/o history, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Immigration, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, and Latin America. Beltrán is completing a 2018-19 IHC public fellow...
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