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Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship!
Award Date: July 20, 2023
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"A Letter to the Four Haitian Asylum Seekers I Met on This Side of the Rio Grande"
Global Studies PhD Amanda Pinheiro's article "A Letter to the Four Haitian Asylum Seekers I Met on This Side of the Rio Grande" was featured in the newspaper The Independent. As part of her dissertation fieldwork (partially funded through a Department of Global Studies research field grant), Amanda flew to Del Rio, a small town in southwestern Texas that borders the Rio Grande and Mexico, where she investigated the Haitian migration through South and Central America towards the United States since 2015.
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Tymoteusz (Tym) Chajdas Awarded 2021 Graduate Student Internship Fellowship
Award Date: September 27, 2021
UC Santa Barbara's Graduate Student Internship Fellowship assists graduate students with attaining experience related to career goals and professional development. This funding is made possible through the GSA referendum fees and additional support from the Graduate Division, under the leadership of Career Services.
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Fall 2021 Colloquium Series
The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture and lunch series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies. The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond. Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is currently the Director of the Colloquium Series.
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How to Help Haiti - Professor Nadège T. Clitandre
News posted on behalf of Professor Nadège T. Clitandre, Department of Global Studies (Affiliate: Black Studies, Comparative Literature), University of California, Santa Barbara
Some of you have reached out to me after yet another catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. This disaster occured just a little over a month after the assassination of the Haitian president in July. These multiple shocks are too much for the country to handle and overwhelming for those of us the diaspora who support Haiti in various ways.
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Congrats to Katja Siepmann on successfully defending her Global Studies PhD dissertation
Award Date: September 03, 2021
News posted on behalf of Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh, UCSB Department of English and Global Studies:
Giles, Sabine, and I congratulate Katja Siepmann on successfully defending her dissertation on September 3, 2021.
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Welcome from new Department Chair Paul Amar
Dear Friends—
Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on his new book, “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State”
Please see this article in UCSB's The Current to learn more: https://news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/new-book-reveals-ottoman-origins-refugee-resettlement-middle-east
Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship!
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Global Studies PhD Student Eugene Riordan, Jr Receives GSA Excellence in Teaching Award AND Dixon-Levy GSA Service Award
Please join us in celebrating Eugene and the other winners at 7pm on May 31 (register here). To learn more about these awards, please see this website.
Global Studies PhD Student Mariah Miller and Anthropology PhD Student MacKenzie Wade Co-teach INT CS 130: Alternative Foods; Alternative Economies in Winter 2022
Mariah Miller and MacKenzie Wade
Miller and Wade created this course through a collaboration with the College of Creative Studies and Graduate Division, thorough the Crossroads 2.0 Program. Please see this link for more information on the course and the Crossroads 2.0 Program.
Global Studies PhD Student Maya Zaynetdinova Awarded IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow
Maya Zaynetdinova is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Global Studies, an educator, and content creator. She is researching and writing a blog about sociocultural history of the decentralized technology of blockchain and its impacts on global societies. Maya is particularly interested in blockchain’s potential for environmental activism and sustainable change. She aims to make this complex technology more accessible to the public through her writing and public presenting. Read her IHC article here.
GLOBAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture and lunch series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies. The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond. Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is currently the Director of the Colloquium Series. For more information, please contact our Orfalea Colloquium Fellow Brett Aho at: brettaho@ucsb.edu
When? Various Wednesdays, 12:30-2pm
Where? Zoom link https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84246564996 (talks will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel)
Who? The Global Studies Colloquium Series is open to everyone interested in attending the talks.
Special Presentation: Miguel Fuentes' Research Software
Through his higher education programs, Miguel Fuentes has learned how different software can make research give him visually useful results, more in depth analysis and simply easier paths towards writing. Miguel is offering this introductory course to some (or all) the research tools he's encountered through the years: from software to find the literature he needs to write, software that make writing easier —as they break down the parts of an essay or a dissertation—, to software that help him catalog and analyze data in a systematized way. The presentation's goal will be three-fold: 1) skim through different software, 2) go more in depth on how to start using the software, and 3) dialogue with participants on how to use this software according to your needs.
The ability to use qualitative and quantitative methods landed Miguel the job he currently has at the Williams Research Institute, and using this software made it easier to develop advanced skills to do so. If you're entering the job market soon, these are tools that can definitely help make your case during the selection process! If you're an experienced researcher, these tools can make your writing and analysis easier, or can help your RAs manage your data more efficiently. In any case, software can be as useful as you want it to be.