American Cultures & Global Contexts Center
Stephanie Lemenager, Director
Situated in the English Department, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center builds upon the considerable strengths in American Studies at UCSB by offering an interdisciplinary setting for new research and teaching initiatives. Equipped with a small library of key resources in the field and computing equipment to support web-based research, this Center provides a unique site for collaborations among faculty and students.

Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media
Constance Penley, Co-Director
Ron Rice, Co-Director
Cathy Boggs, Associate Director
This new interdisciplinary Center brings together faculty from the humanities, arts, and social sciences to teach and conduct research about all forms of mass media, placing the study of film, television, and new media in the context of a rigorous and broad-based liberal arts education.

Center for Cold War Studies
Salim Yaqub, Director
Founded in 1994 and based in the Department of History, the Center for Cold War Studies presents annual conferences, lectures and workshops, and provides on-line resources for historians of diplomatic history. The Center is committed to promoting discussion and the exchange of ideas on topics related to the Cold War.

Center for Galician Studies
Housed in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the center’s mission is to disseminate Galician Language and Culture through a yearly series of Lectures on Galician Studies, and its growing library collection, and also courses focusing on Galician Language and Literature.

Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM)
Derek Katz, Co-Director
Eric Prieto, Co-Director
The UCSB Department of Music founded the CISM in 2000. The Center's goal is to bring together scholars, researchers, and the general public through special events, interdisciplinary curricula, and online resources, exploring music in all its facets.  

Center for Portuguese Studies
João Camilo-dos- Santos, Director
The Center provides support for teaching and degree programs and promotes the study of literatures, language and cultures of the Portuguese-speaking world. The Center actively awards student scholarships and stipends, sponsors the Summer Institute in Portuguese, hosts colloquia, maintains the Center library, and sponsors publications.

Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE)
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director
Curtis Roads, Associate Director
The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology was established in 1986, and is situated within the Department of Music. CREATE serves as a productive environment available to students, researchers, and media artists for the realization of music and multimedia works.

Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
Nelson Lichtenstein, Director
The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy is a research and eductional unit at UCSB; housed within the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. It explores today, and in the past, the ideological and political relationship between the character of our working lives, the public and corporate policies that shape employment norms, and the possibility for democracy, both at the workplace and in the larger polity.

Center for Taiwan Studies
Kuo-ching Tu, Professor and Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair
The Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS) promotes Taiwan-related scholarly activities in the humanities, fine arts, and other cultural areas in an academic venue in the United States. It provides a forum for the public and a vehicle to meet the professional interests of faculty and students from a variety of disciplines by supporting collaborative programs involving visiting writers and scholars, hosting conferences, publishing Taiwan literature in English translation, and by encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship and Taiwan-related campus activities.

Consortium for Literature, Theory, and Culture
Jon Snyder, Director
While grounded in the study of national literary traditions, the Consortium seeks to encourage interdisciplinary and theoretical reflections on literature and culture in global and comparative contexts. Through graduate curricula, research projects, colloquia, and lectures, the Consortium encourages dialogue among faculty and students from various departments.

Early Modern Center
Ken Hiltner, Director
The Early Modern Center is the UCSB English Department's locus for students and faculty working in sixteenth- through eighteenth-century studies. The EMC has a seminar room, reference library, and networked computers with access to the latest research databases. The Center offers courses, conferences, and special events annually and supports collaborative on-line projects, including an extensive picture gallery with slideshow feature and an NEH-funded archive of the collected ballads of Samuel Pepys.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Ann Bermingham, Acting Director
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center was founded in 1987 with the goal of bridging disciplinary divides in the humanities and encouraging collaboration across the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The center sponsors a wide variety of interdisciplinary courses, seminars, research projects, lectures, and conferences.

Italian Studies Multi-campus Research Group, UC
At the University of California, scholars working in Italian Studies are widely dispersed across the humanities. The Italian Studies Multicampus Research Group (MRG) unites faculty and graduate students in a multicampus interdisciplinary research unit. The UC ISMRG will work closely with its sister organization, the California Interdisciplinary Consortium for Italian Studies (CICIS). CICIS' mission is to foster interdisciplinary and transnational research related to Italian studies in California, and to convene conferences where this research can be promoted, undertaken, presented, and discussed. The organization is open to UC faculty and graduate students as well as scholars and researchers from other California research institutions, and independent scholars residing in California.

Microcosms
Bruce Robertson, Co-Director
Mark Meadow, Co-Director
Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge is a multiyear, interdisciplinary project that seeks to research comprehensively a material "economy of knowledge" within the university. We will plan and mount a series of exhibitions and symposia throughout the UC system, produce publications, then propose policy directives on the use and expansion of UC collections.

Public History Program
Founded by the History Department in 1976 with the goal of training students to apply their historical knowledge in public settings, the Program sponsors lectures, public programming, special curricula, and student internships in partnership with community organizations. In conjunction with the National Council for Public History, the program publishes The Public Historian.

Transliteracies - Multi-campus Research Group
Alan Liu, Principal Investigator
Established in 2005, this multi-campus research group includes scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and engineering from the University of California system (and in the future other research programs). It will establish working groups to study online reading from different perspectives; bring those groups into conjunction behind a shared technology development initiative; publish research and demonstration software; and train graduate students working at the intersections of the humanistic, social, and technological disciplines.

University of California Research in the Arts (UCIRA)
Kim Yasuda, Co-director
Marco Pehljhan, Co-director
Associate Director, Holly Unruh
The UCIRA provides grants to arts faculty and students for projects with the potential for significant artistic and cultural impact. We support projects that are innovative, experimental, and risk-taking in their approach to form and/or content. These may include exhibitions, performances, symposia, outreach efforts, and projects that are multidisciplinary in approach. As artistic endeavors of the highest professional caliber, UCIRA projects frequently reach audiences outside the university and involve artists and scholars from around the world. As the only state-wide organization representing the arts on the nine campuses of the UC system, UCIRA also provides information and advocacy for university-based arts education and research.

Voice of the Shuttle
Alan Liu, Project Founder and Coordinator
Started in 1994 as a suite of static web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media.

Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life
Wade Clark Roof, Director
Leonard Wallock, Associate Director
The Capps Center is a place where the crucial issues of moral values, beliefs, and ethics can be addressed through intelligent debate and conversation. Named in honor of former UCSB Professor of Religious Studies and US Representative Walter Capps, the Center sponsors community programming in collaboration with local organizations, hosts lectures and conferences, visiting fellows, and sponsors internships at the UC Washington Center.

Related Centers and Programs at UCSB
University Art Museum
Arts and Lectures
Center for Black Studies
Center for Chicano Studies
Center for Information Technology and Society
Center for Middle East Studies
Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Race and Pedagogy Project

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