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Spring 2021 IHC Award Winners
Five UCSB humanities doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects.
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15AprInterview with Public Fellow David McIntosh on Interning with the EVC’s Office
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).
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11MarIHC Series Videos and Podcasts
Watch or listen to recent Living Democracy and Humanities Decanted events and others from the IHC’s archive on SoundCloud and YouTube. Follow us @ihcucsb for updates on new event recordings.
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23FebUCSB Humanities Research Awarded UCHRI Funding
The IHC is pleased to announce that UCSB faculty and graduate students were awarded seven out of the thirty UCHRI grants in the Fall 2021 awards competition!
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04FebWinter 2021 IHC Award Winners
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!
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02FebInterview with Public Fellow Kirsten Jaqua on Interning with the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC)
Read about Jaqua's work toward increasing student engagement with HFA programs at UCSB with the Office of the EVC.
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14JanInterview with Public Fellow Dana Hughes on Interning with Direct Relief
Read about Hughes's work chronicling Direct Relief's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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11DecInterview with Public Fellow Jungah Son on Interning with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County
Read about Son's work building a website for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County's Foodboss curriculum.
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07DecFall 2020 IHC Faculty Award Winners
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!
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02DecInterview with Public Fellow Unita Ahdifard on Interning with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Read about Ahdifard's work developing interpretive programming for Santa Barbara's Casa de la Guerra.
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18NovListen to IHC Director Susan Derwin’s radio interview on CSUCI Presents About Education
Susan Derwin and Neil Kreisel discuss the role of the humanities in democratic society and the IHC's community engaged programs.
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09NovInterview with Public Fellow Maya Zaynetdinova on Interning with Direct Relief
Read about Zaynetdinova's recently completed internship with Direct Relief.
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21OctIHC Director Susan Derwin Interviewed on KZAA Radio
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.
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30SepWelcome Back, from IHC Director Susan Derwin
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 empowerment.
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25SepHumanities Without Walls Graduate Student Workshop
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.
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10SepInterview with Anagha Uppal on Working with the American Red Cross
Read about Uppal's recently completed fellow-designed community project with the American Red Cross.
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11AugAnnouncing the Interdisciplinary Humanities Collaborations in the Virtual Classroom Grant Winners
This new grant enables HFA faculty to integrate collaborative possibilities into their remote teaching.
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05AugInterview with Mika Thornburg on Interning with Digital Delano Archive
Read about Thornburg's recent internship with Digital Delano, an archive hosted by Bakersfield College Delano Campus Library.
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01JulIHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Jasmine Kelekay
Read about Jasmine's fellow-designed community project working with the Pan-African Movement for Justice (PAMJ), a non-profit organization based in Sweden.
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23JunCongratulations 2020-21 UCHRI Award Winners
The IHC congratulates seven UCSB recipients of UC-wide humanities research awards.
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22JunRecent Articles on the Humanities + Pandemic
This collection of recent articles explores the value and interventions of the humanities in the midst of pandemic, both historically and currently.
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17Jun2020 Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Interns
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 and beyond the academy.
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15JunBen Olguín wins NEA Art Works Grant
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.
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10JunAnnouncing 2020-21 IHC Research Focus Groups
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.
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09JunBeltrán and Thornburg Speak About Interning at Digital Delano Archive
Watch Public Humanities Graduate Fellow interns Francisco Beltrán and Mika Thornburg discuss their work with Digital Delano, an archive hosted by Bakersfield College.
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26MayIHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Intern Alesha Claveria
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).
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19MayCritical Mass Speakers on Current Pandemic: Reuben Jonathan Miller
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.
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19MayCritical Mass Speakers on Current Pandemic: Aaron Huey
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Aaron Huey, Creative Director of Amplifier.org, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic.
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05MayIHC Funding Awards Winners – Spring 2020
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Spring 2020 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Faculty and Dissertation Fellowships.
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28AprCritical Mass Speakers on Current Pandemic: Roland Geyer
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.
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21AprCritical Mass Speakers on Current Pandemic: Jared Diamond
IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Jared Diamond, UCLA Professor of Geography, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic.
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15AprNews from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
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.
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01AprSpring 2020 Event Postponements
The IHC has postponed all events that were scheduled for Spring 2020.
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31JanWinter 2020 IHC Funding Awards Winners
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!
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28JanMona Damluji Wins NEH Faculty Fellowship
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.
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12DecFall 2019 IHC Funding Awards Winners
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!
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18NovMeet Public Humanities Fellow Anna Bax
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.
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21OctIHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Intern Olga Faccani
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.
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19AugIHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Intern Chelsea Lonergan
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 of Santa Barbara.
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19AugIHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow Intern Emma John
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 José de la Guerra, the fifth comandante of the Presidio.
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08MayIHC Funding Awards Winners – Spring 2019
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!
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17AprMeet IHC Public Fellow Intern Francisco Beltrán
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 internship with the Digital Delano project housed at Bakersfield College.