Visiting Scholars

The IHC’s Visiting Scholar Program provides humanities and fine arts faculty from other institutions the opportunity to make use of UCSB’s facilities while they are in residence in Santa Barbara. Visiting scholars will be offered library privileges and eligibility to purchase campus parking and Recreation Center membership. Click here for more information about visiting scholarships.

2022-23
Josephine Metcalf, Senior Lecturer in American Studies & Criminology, University of Hull

2021-22
Elizabeth Guffey, Art History, State University of New York at Purchase

2020-21
Kathy Lavezzo, University of Iowa
Harilaos Stecopoulos, University of Iowa
Carly Thomsen, Middlebury College

2019-20
Keelan Overton, History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Independent Scholar

2017-18
Ingrid Nelson, English, Amherst College

2015-16
Gesa Kirsch, English, Bentley University

Spring 2015
Liza Black, Ph.D., History, “Picturing Indians: American Indians in Film, 1941-1960”

Fall 2013 – Winter 2014
Laura Sarnelli, Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies, University of Naples L’Orientale, “Cultures of Melancholia in European and American Contexts”
Akiko Taguchi, Faculty of Arts, Kyoto University of Art and Design

Spring 2012
E. Ann Kaplan, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, SUNY-Stony Brook

Spring 2010
Norihiro Kato, School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Winter-Spring 2008
Knut A. Jacobsen, History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway