News

Department meeting

Event Start: March 12, 2013 07:30 PM

Event End: March 12, 2013 07:30 PM
Department meeting

Graduate Student Forums:Info Session on IQMR and Forum on Dissertation

Event Start: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: October 25, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Political Science Reception at the All Gaucho Reunion

Event Start: April 25, 2014 09:00 PM

Event End: April 25, 2014 09:00 PM

Event Location: Living Room

It’s been 15 years since the Professor Larry Adams Scholarship Award was established. Since that time, 32 students have become Adams Scholars and served in public service internships in the Santa Barbara community.

The Adams Award was created to recognize and honor former UCSB lecturer and Professor Larry Adams. His strong commitment to public service and political involvement inspired a generation of UCSB students.

Pluta's Dissertation Research Summarized in PS

The APSA Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs assists APSA scholars in their research and field work.  Graduate student Anne Pluta was one of two in-residence scholars at the Center in Fall 2011 whose work was recently summarized in APSA's journal PS: Political Science and Politics.

While at the Center, she presented her dissertation research to the Centennial Center Staff, APSA's Congressional Fellows, and an invited audience from various institutions in the WAshington DC area.

Job Opening in Environmental Politics

The Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications and nominations for a tenured appointment to fill the recently-endowed Anton Vonk Chair in Environmental Politics. This Chair is intended to focus on the politics of the environment, energy, or natural resources. The position is open with respect to field. We welcome applicants from American politics, comparative politics, international politics, and political theory.

Candidates should be distinguished scholars, whose work focuses especially on the politics of the environment.

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Geoff Allen, Natasha Bennett, and Magarita Safronova

Event Flier

Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work.

Maggie Savronova will present Does Language Matter? Instrumental Use of Language in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

Failing and the Seven Seas: Somali piracy in global context

Event Start: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Political Science Alum Honored by Women in Communication

UCSB Political Science Alumna Paula Lopez was recently honored by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications. Lopez, co-anchor of KEY News at 11 p.m. began her career at this station before heading to station KCAL in Los Angeles in 1990, where she covered the O.J. Simpson trial, southland floods, and the devastating Los Angeles riots. She received both a local area Emmy Award and a Golden Mike Award for Best News Reporting while she was there. She returned to station KEYT in 1996.