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Alumni News: "Thinking Globally about Local Environments" by Christopher W. Gibson
UCSB Global Studies MA alumnus Christopher W. Gibson recently published an article “Financialization of Urban Governance: Thinking Globally about Local Environments" in global-e hosted by the 21st Century Global Dynamics Initiative at the Orfalea Center. Gibson is currently a PhD Candidate in Sociology at UC Irvine, and will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton in August 2020.
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Staff News: Congrats to Meghan Zero for the Staff Excellence Award
In the midst of gloom and doom, comes something marvelous: our very own Undergraduate Advisor Meghan Zero has won the Staff Citation of Excellence Award this year! Congrats, Meghan!
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Global Grad News: Tymoteusz Chajdas awarded UCSB's Dissertation Fellowships
Award Date: May 21, 2020
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Global Grad News: Sarp Kurgan awarded UCSB's Fletcher Jones Fellowship!
Award Date: May 11, 2020
Congratulations to Global Studies PhD student Sarp Kurgan, who has been chosen as UCSB’s 2020-21 recipient of the Fletcher Jones Fellowship.
“This fellowship will significantly contribute to my dissertation as it will allow me to fully concentrate on writing in my last year at UCSB,” Kurgan said. “I'm very thankful for the faculty's confidence in my research and for nominating me for this award. I truly appreciate their support.”
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New Article: "Beyond surveillance capitalism: Privacy, regulation and big data in Europe and China"
Global Studies PhD student Brett Aho and Global Studies MA alum Bert Duffield published their new piece, "Beyond surveillance capitalism: Privacy, regulation and big data in Europe and China" in Economy and Society.
Access the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1690275
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Congrats to PhD Maya Zaynetdinova: IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow
UCSB's Interdisciplinary Humanities Center recently announced their ten new Public Humanities Graduate Fellows, one of which includes Global Studies PhD student Maya Zaynetdinova. This unique program prepares students for careers as dynamic, socially engaged humanists both within and beyond the academy.
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"Nicaragua Is Stumbling Into Coronavirus Disaster" by Professor Kai Thaler
Global Studies Professor Kai Thaler has published a new short piece in Foreign Policy, "Nicaragua Is Stumbling Into Coronavirus Disaster."
Read the full piece here: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/17/ortega-virus-murillo-nicaragua-is-stumbling-into-coronavirus-disaster/
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Congratulations on your acceptance to UCSB, future Gauchos!
Congratulations to all those finding out they have been accepted to UC Santa Barbara! Welcome, Class of 2024, to your new home on the edge of the Pacific. We can’t wait to have you!
Continue Reading Congratulations on your acceptance to UCSB, future Gauchos!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.