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Apply for the 2021 Global Studies Award for First Generation Scholars
2021 Global Studies PhD Field Grant Awards
Announcing the 2021 Global Studies PhD Field Grant Awards (funded via the Global Studies Department):
Continue Reading 2021 Global Studies PhD Field Grant AwardsUCSB Global Studies Statement on Anti-Asian Violence
In the wake of the murders of eight people, including six Asian women, in Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, 2021, the Department of Global Studies extends our sympathies to the eight victims, and to their loved ones. We stand in solidarity and in shared grief with our Asian and Asian American students and their communities who have experienced gendered and racialized violence, and who might be feeling targeted, fearful, and angry at the escalating anti-Asian violence of the past few months.
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New Book:
Distinguished Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse's latest co-edited book (along with co-editors Haeran Lim and Habibul Khondker) tackles the timely issue of COVID-19 and governance across the globe.
Forthcoming from Routledge in June 2021, "COVID-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes. Bringing together analyses of Covid-19 developments in countries and regions across the world with a wide-angle lens on governance, this volume asks: what works, what hasn’t and isn’t, and why?
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New Publication: COVID-19 and Governance
Distinguished Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse recently published a new volume (with co-editors Haeran Lim, Habibul Khondker) focusing on the timely issues of COVID-19 and governance across the globe.
Forthcoming from Routledge in June 2021: "COVID-19 and Governance focuses on the relationship between governance institutions and approaches to Covid-19 and health outcomes. Bringing together analyses of Covid-19 developments in countries and regions across the world with a wide-angle lens on governance, this volume asks: what works, what hasn’t and isn’t, and why?
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"Rethinking the agrarian question in the 21st century" - Ricado Jacobs Colloquium Talk March 10th
Join the Global Studies dept on Wednesday, March 10th at 12:30pm PST to hear from new faculty member Assistant Professor Ricado Jacobs. His colloquium talk is titled: "Rethinking the agrarian question in the 21st century." Zoom link https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84246564996
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"Kisan Morcha: History, Identity, Politics" by Prof Anshu Malhotra
Professor Anshu Malhotra (Kapany Endowed Chair in Global and Sikh Studies) recently published an insightful aricle about the Kisan Morcha, or farmers’ protest on Delhi’s borders in India. Read her editorial response at the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/kisan-morcha-history-identity-politics
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Profs at the Pub: "Major Restrictions and Social Stratification in the UC System and Beyond"
Profs at the Pub
Thu, February 18, 2021
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/professors-at-the-pub-february-2021-tickets-138313275731
Public universities increasingly restrict entry into the highest-demand majors to students obtaining high grades in introductory courses, or qualifying through separate admissions procedures. While justified on academic grounds, such restrictions in practice limit the number of students served, often in response to surging student interest in "high-wage" majors and inadequate expansions in pedagogical resources.
Continue Reading Profs at the Pub: "Major Restrictions and Social Stratification in the UC System and Beyond"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!
To learn more about Dr. Hamed-Troyansky's work through the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, please see this article:
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.