Kalfou is a scholarly journal focused on social movements, social institutions, and social relations. We seek to build links among intellectuals, artists, and activists in shared struggles for social justice.
Information Technology Services (ITS), the campus' central IT unit, contributes to UC Santa Barbara’s mission of research, teaching, and community service by serving as a resource and catalyst in partnering with the campus community to efficiently deliver IT infrastructure and enterprise application services to faculty, students, staff, and affiliates; and increasing the value and effectiveness of campus IT investments and implementations.
UCSB's Haitian Studies Initiative offers critical analyses about Haiti and its rapport with the international community to support policy, community development, and social justice in Haiti and in the diaspora while also developing epistemological models that augment scholarship and sustain these interventions. The current work builds on 20 years of research on Haiti.
GRIT provides information technology services and technical support for ERI, MSI and ISBER Organized Research Units (ORUs), the Geography department, and the CCBER and NRS Centers as well as other campus organizations.
Now renamed the Grad Slam Showcase, this annual event brings our campus community together and spotlights the amazing research being done by our graduate students. Graduate students will present their research in 3-minute talks that are clear, direct, and engaging to diverse audiences. Throughout the Showcase, we give out over $20,000 in cash prizes to participants.
The GMTaC Lab is a space for collaborative research on the ownership and use of media and information technologies in diverse international contexts.
The Global Latinidades Project seeks a world where all people have the opportunity to learn about each other and with each other pursuant to mutual understanding, respect, and cooperation to build an egalitarian society in harmony with all sentient beings, earth, and the cosmos.
We are transforming UCSB's financial management capabilities by implementing enhanced budgeting, accounting and financial reporting throughout campus.
A collaboration of the departments of Asian American Studies, Black Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Feminist Studies, the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, along with the Office of Research at UCSB, this new teacher training program builds on the strengths of resources already existing on campus.
Through the Engaged Scholarship initiative, we have worked to develop scholarly epistemologies and methodologies based on a collaborative process of knowledge production among scholars and community members, activists and artists. This work seeks to examine not only Black inequality, but also the ways in which Black communities are creatively resisting social problems.