News

Discussion with Prof. Lasala-Blanco: The Immigration Debate

Event Start: October 15, 2015 11:00 PM

Event End: October 16, 2015 12:30 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Professor Narayani Lasala-Blanco will lead a discussion entitled "The Immigration Debate: The Origins of Group Stereotypes and the Electoral Discourse on Immigration in American Politics"  Click here for links to the reading by Aristide Zolberg.

Discussion with Prof. Lasala-Blanco: The Immigration Debate

Event Start: October 15, 2015 11:00 PM

Event End: October 16, 2015 12:30 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Professor Narayani Lasala-Blanco will lead a discussion entitled "The Immigration Debate: The Origins of Group Stereotypes and the Electoral Discourse on Immigration in American Politics"  Click here for links to the reading by Aristide Zolberg.

Fall Social

Event Start: September 30, 2015 11:00 PM

Event End: October 01, 2015 12:30 AM

Join us in the Lane Room for a celebration of the start of Fall Quarter and of the arrival of our new faculty and PhD students.

9 Ph.D. Students Give Papers at APSA

Congratulations to Geoff Allen, Tristan Beckman, Skyler CovichColin Kuehl, Rhoanne Esteban, Nicole Filler, Heather Hodges, Yanjun Liu, and Shyam Sriram, whose work was presented at the 2015 meeting of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco. 

Summer 2015 Department Newsletter

We are pleased to share the Summer 2015 edition of the Department's Newsletter.

Departmental Graduate Student Orientation

Event Start: September 21, 2015 04:00 PM

Event End: September 21, 2015 09:00 PM

Event Location: The Lane Room (Ellison 3824)

All incoming graduate students are invited to participate in the department's Graduate Student Orientation, which will provide an overview to the graduate program and department and campus resources.

Recent Ph.D. Graduate interviewed for Washington Post Blog

Recent Ph.D. graduate, Michael Albert, was interviewed for a Washington Post Blog on "Why leaving the euro could be a nightmare for the Greeks." Albert was interviewed about "dollarization" and "de-dollarization," which was the focus of his dissertation at UCSB.

Professor Cohen interviewed on implications of faltering economies in China and Greece

The Current interviewed Louis Lancaster Chair, Benjamin J. Cohen, on the struggling economies of China and Greece and their impacts on world economies and the U.S. economy. To read Professor Cohen's take on the current international economic situation, see the "Politics of Economics" article on UCSB's The Current.