The Global and International Studies Program will offer its first class in a newly approved Ph.D. program starting in Fall Quarter of 2015.
The program will be the first global studies Ph.D. program to be established in the UC system and the only one at a Tier-1 research institution in the United States. The field of global studies draws from several different academic disciplines including global political economy, culture and government.
The process of instituting the program began with extensive planning and outreach to other campuses as well as programs in other countries including China, Germany and several countries in Latin America. According to the Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies Mark Juergensmeyer, since UCSB established annual meetings with international graduate programs seven years ago, there has been sustained growth and an increase in support for graduate programs worldwide.
According to Juergensmeyer, the collaboration with the Ph.D. programs in Moscow, Japan and Germany — as well as other global studies graduate programs abroad — has aided the department of global studies in forming the structure of the new Ph.D. program. The global studies department, with around 900 members, was established in 1999 and includes both undergraduate and graduate students.
According to department chair and professor Eve Darian-Smith, a widely recognized expert in human rights and international law, recruitment is now underway for what will be a modest founding class — only three to five doctoral candidates to start in what will be a 4-to-6-year program. Fellowship support will be provided to incoming students on a competitive basis, and paid teaching and research opportunities will be offered each year. All applicants will also be eligible for campuswide, multiyear fellowships.
To read about the new PhD please visit the UCSB news page and the following article in the Santa Barbara Noozhawk.
For more information about the PhD, please visit our department website at Global & International Studies.
Contact:
darian@global.ucsb.edu