UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
The mission of the IHC at UC Santa Barbara is to advance knowledge about human experience in cultural, historical, and social contexts and to do so through programs that foster human agency, social connectivity, and civic empowerment.
Bruno Perreau: Spheres of Injustice: Minority Politics Today
Melody Jue: Informatics of Domination
Jordan Thomas: When It All Burns: The Creation of California’s Wildfire Crisis
New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
Juan Cobo Betancourt: The Coming of the Kingdom
Stephanie McCarter: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations, Spring 2025
Tannishtha Bhattacharjee: PHGFP Capstone Presentation, Spring 2025
Cypris Roalsvig: PHGFP Capstone Presentation, Spring 2025
Judith Zeitlin: The Making of Ghost Village
Lisa Jacobson: Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition
Claudio Benzecry: Subject or Objects? Key Passageways between Things and Humans
Vincent Brown: Black History’s Warning to the World
Julia Reinhard Lupton: When Life Is a Shipwreck: Key Passages in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Teaching in Foundations in the Humanities
Daina Sanchez: The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Sowon Park: AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity?
William Davies King: Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
Abduweli Ayup: When the Uyghur Language Confronts Atrocity
New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2023-24 Faculty Fellows
Swati Chattopadhyay: Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire
Thomas Mazanec: Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Medieval China
IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations, Spring 2024
Reparations in California
2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is Housing a Human Right?
Ending Poverty in California: A Movement, A Plan, A More Equitable Future
Janet Afary: Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
Karen Mary Davalos and Tatiana Reinoza: Self Help Graphics & Art
Rosanna Xia: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline