UCSB sociology and feminist studies professor France Winddance Twine joined UCSB’s Film and Media Studies to present her 2019 research called “Silicon Valley’s Caste System: Race, Class and All Women Coding Boot Camps.” Twine’s research explores how ‘inequality regimes’ such as certain hiring processes contribute to the absence of Black women employees in Silicon Valley technology firms.
Utathya Chattopadhyaya, an assistant professor of History at UC Santa Barbara, last week spoke about his research on “Cannabis in South Asia” during the last installment of an Asian American Studies Collective series hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.
A photographic record of roadside signage has put UC Santa Barbara art professor Alex Lukas in the company of artists who have responded to COVID-19 by visually interpreting this moment in time.
Published in The Boston Art Review’s winter 2021 edition, Lukas’ latest project “Stay Safe, Stay Home: Road Text in a Time of Contagion,” documents the emergence and progression of pandemic-related highway signs, capturing their language and appearance.
This spring, UC Santa Barbara is launching the Center for the Study of Ancient Fiction – the first scholarly center of its kind in North America.
Its goal is to foster collaborative research and interdisciplinary connections about prose fiction that dates from the earliest written literature to the modern era. Until now, scholarship in this field has come primarily from Europe.
Although 900,000 of the men in U.S prisons are white, incarceration is treated as a Black problem, says Chicago-based sociologist and criminologist Reuben Jonathan Miller. Society still conflates blackness with criminality, Miller told a UC Santa Barbara audience recently. Miller was hosted by UCSB’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to discuss his research into incarcerated people and their families, in a recent Zoom webinar.
Since earning her Ph.D. in History at UC Santa Barbara in 2015, Jefferson has set out to uncover erased moments of African American history. Currently a scholar in residence at Occidental College, she has collaborated with artists, scholars, and institutions to produce educational programming, exhibits, and publications that are dedicated to sharing the African American experience with a wide audience.
The student dancers of UC Santa Barbara’s Theater and Dance Department have stepped back in the studios with modern dance teacher Christina Sanchez,adapting class structures to incorporate COVID-19 safety precautions and protocols. Read how she does it and watch a video by student Morgen Allen to get a glimpse into the dancer experience and hear Sanchez’s insights on teaching dance in the midst of a global pandemic.
Classics departments often struggle against the perception that they are stuck in the past. Focusing on ancient stories has nothing to do with us today, right? Visiting professor Stephen Trzaskoma argues otherwise, and his efforts are among the many ways UCSB Classics is engaging with contemporary life.
