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Five HFA faculty and graduate students honored with 2025-26 Academic Senate awards

Recognizing excellence in teaching, diversity and student mentorship across UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Threads of survival: One doctoral candidate reframes histories of conflict

UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate Alida Jekabson explores how craft and textiles carry memory, identity and survival through war, displacement and resettlement.

Arts, dance and public humanities highlighted in chancellor’s inauguration events

Events marking the inauguration of Chancellor Dennis Assanis highlighted the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts through a UCSB Dance Company performance and references to campus strengths in film, public humanities and library scholarship.

Department of Art MFA students to debut 'Fault Lines' exhibition at AD&A Museum

Graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the UC Santa Barbara Department of Art will showcase their dynamic final projects in the upcoming "Fault Lines" exhibition at the campus Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

Thoreau Edition publishes final volume of Henry David Thoreau’s correspondence

The UC Santa Barbara Library’s Thoreau Edition has published the third and final volume of “The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau,” a scholarly edition covering the author’s final years. The publication coincides with renewed attention to Thoreau through a PBS documentary produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley.

New LAUNCH PAD play explores activism and civil disorder from the confines of a yoga studio

Award-winning playwright Melinda Lopez brings her new play "Standing Still" to UC Santa Barbara's LAUNCH PAD, exploring themes of activism and democracy through the lens of a weekly yoga class.

Two UC Santa Barbara doctoral students named 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

Becca Hamilton and Chelsea Kai Roesch receive prestigious national funding to pursue unconventional humanities research. 

Ph.D. candidates Becca Hamilton (left) and Chelsea Kai Roesch (right) have been named 2026 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows.

Shaping the national conversation: UC Santa Barbara announces third cohort of Public Voices Fellows.

Through a year-long partnership with The OpEd Project, 21 UC Santa Barbara faculty members will translate their academic research into national impact and shape public discourse.