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HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 1st Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 1st Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 2nd Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 2nd Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won second place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 3rd Place Winner

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Prose 3rd Place Winner

This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won third place in the prose category.

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Music

HFA Creativity Contest 2025: Music

This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted an annual contest to highlight creativity across the campus. The following are winning submissions in the Music category.

Honoring Donors and Student Creativity

Honoring Donors and Student Creativity

The 2025 winners of the UCSB Humanities and Fine Arts Division’s Give Day Creativity Contest joined HFA faculty and donors at a lunch last week to receive awards for their original work in writing, photography, art and music.

The Authoritarian Playbook: Using Fear and Crisis to Gain Power in Italy and America

The Authoritarian Playbook: Using Fear and Crisis to Gain Power in Italy and America

Authoritarian leaders use fear, crisis, and rebranding to push far-right agendas and erode democracy, NYU professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat told a UCSB audience at the inaugural Charles R. Ross Distinguished Lecture in the Department of Italian Studies. She highlighted how figures like Mussolini, Meloni, and Trump manipulate public perception to justify extreme policies.

HFA Speaks: Reflecting on a Future Trump Administration

HFA Speaks: Reflecting on a Future Trump Administration

At an HFA Speaks event “Post-Election Reflection,” three UCSB faculty panelists gathered to discuss the threats America faces in human rights, academic freedom, and democracy under a Trump administration.