Awards support collaborative projects, such as conferences at UCSB or in the Santa Barbara area; collaborative research or instructional projects by faculty members in one or more departments/programs; and initiatives to bring visiting scholars and arts practitioners to campus for collaborative research or teaching. Click here for more information about faculty collaborative awards.
The following lists winners by award date:
FALL 2022
Listening to Cumbia
David Novak, Music
Raquel Pacheco, Anthropology
FALL 2021
The Global Imagination of Racial Justice: Coalition, Comparativism, Community
Swati Rana, English
Stephanie Batiste, Black Studies & English
Silicon Valley Requiem
Andrew Watts, College of Creative Studies
William Davies King, Theater and Dance
Ecologies of Childhood: An Interdisciplinary International Research Conference
Sara Pankenier Weld, Germanic and Slavic Studies
FALL 2020
Feminismo desde abajo, y al Sur (Feminism from below, and to the South)
Troy Araiza Kokinis, History
Charmaine Chua, Global Studies
FALL 2019
Asian American Studies at 50
John Park, on behalf of the Department of Asian American Studies
Gagaku Collaborative Project
Fabio Rambelli, Religious Studies/East Asian Studies
David Novak, Music
Christina McCarthy, Theater and Dance
Globalizing Race Before Race
Debra Blumenthal, History Department
Heather Blurton, English Department
Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
Jessica Nakamura, Theater and Dance
Katherine Saltzman-Li, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
SPRING 2019
An Emotional Revolution: Loves and Loyalties in Imperial Japan
Fabio Rambelli, Religious Studies
Miriam Wattles, History of Art and Architecture
FALL 2018
Contemporary Asian American Activism: An Activist-Scholar Methodological and Collaborative Project
Diane Fujino, Asian American Studies
George Lipsitz, Black Studies and Sociology
Disquantified: Critical Perspectives on Metrics Culture
Christopher Newfield, English
Aashish Mehta, Global Studies
Heather Steffen, Chicano Studies Institute
Modeling the Pacific: Oceanic Research in Science, Technology, and the Humanities
Christina Vagt, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Wolf Kittler, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Timely Intersections: Black Histories on the Page and Stage
Christina McMahon, Theater and Dance
Stephanie Batiste, English and Black Studies
SPRING 2018
Mapping Urban Materiality
Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art and Architecture
Jeremy White, History of Art and Architecture
FALL 2017
Cultural Sustainabilities
Timothy J. Cooley, Music
Janet Walker, Film and Media Studies
Just Relations? White Romantic Imaginings and the Black Radical Tradition
Felice Blake, English
Julie Carlson, English
Pacific Coast Branch of British Studies Annual Conference
Erika Rappaport, History
Sears McGee, History
Exploring Catalan Identity
Antonio Cortijo, Spanish and Portuguese
Debra Blumenthal, History
Eloi Grasset, Spanish and Portuguese
Patterns and Networks in Classical Chinese Literature: Notes from the Digital Frontier
Thomas Mazanec, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
SPRING 2017
Embodying the Present Moment in Theatrical Jazz Performance
Stephanie Batiste, Black Studies/English
Felice Blake, English
Vilna Bashi Treitler, Black Studies
Future Tripping
Alenda Chang, Film and Media Studies
Laila Shereen Sakr, Film and Media Studies
Jeremy Douglass, English
Minority Language Learning and Acculturation
Aline Ferreira, Spanish and Portuguese
Viola G. Miglio, Spanish and Portuguese
John W. Schwieter, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and University of Greenwich, England
Water is Life: Standing with Standing Rock
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian
Janet Walker, Film and Media Studies
Margaret McMurtrey, Religious Studies
FALL 2016
Lukacs and the World: Rethinking Global Circuits of Cultural Production
Naoki Yamamoto, Film and Media Studies
Glyn Salton-Cox, English
Workshop on “Saturation”
Melody Jue, English
Janet Walker, Film and Media Studies
Studies in Late Antiquity: Late Ancient Worlds
Elizabeth Digeser, History
SPRING 2016
Medieval Bestsellers versus Solitary Masterpieces: What was Read Then and Now
Heather Blurton, English
Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies
New Colloquia
Colin Gardner, Art
Elyse Gonzales, Art, Design and Architecture Museum
FALL 2015
After Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolutionary Experiences and Future Visions
Paul Amar, Global Studies
Sherene Seikaly, History
Democratizing Education: Creating Racialized Spaces of Community Building Through Critical Pedagogy, Improvisation, and the Public Humanities
Diane Fujino, Asian American Studies
Esther Lezra, Global Studies
The Global-Popular Workshop
Bishnupriya Ghosh, English
Bhaskar Sarkar, Film and Media Studies
w/Shakespeare: Shakespeare, Phenomenology, Play
James Kearney, English
Irwin Appel, Theater and Dance
R-Shief Media System Workshop
Amr El Abbadi, Computer Science
Laila Shereen Sakr, Film and Media Studies
SPRING 2015
Metamorphosis: Human, Animal, Armor
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Wolf Kittler, Germanic and Slavic Studies
Julie Carlson, English
FALL 2014
A Spatial Turn in Holocaust Studies
Claudio Fogu, French and Italian
Harold Marcuse, History
Werner Kuhn, Geography
Mary Hagarty, Psychology
Women, Gender, Sex: Social and Cultural Histories of the Long Nineteenth Century — a conference in honor of Patricia Cline Cohen
Ann Marie Plane, History
War and Remembrance: Cultural Imprints of Japan’s Samurai Age
Katherine Saltzman-Li, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
SPRING 2014
The Musical Heritage of “Moorish Spain”
Dwight Reynolds, Religious Studies
Scott Marcus, Music
On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play at the Edge of the World
Aranye Fradenburg, English
Child’s Play: Multisensory Histories of Children and Childhoods in Japan and Beyond
Sabine Fruhstuck, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
FALL 2013
Re-reading the Feminist Sixties
Eileen Boris, Feminist Studies
Diane Fujino, Asian American Studies
Dirty, Sexy Policy Conference
Jennifer Holt, Film and Media Studies
Constance Penley, Film and Media Studies
American Mysteries: Urban Crime Fiction from Sue’s Mysteries of Paris to the American Noir and Steampunk
Dominique Jullien, French and Italian Studies
Catherine Nesci, French and Italian Studies
Jon Snyder, French and Italian Studies
Translation Studies Conference: Language, Literature and Culture as the Novel Goes Global
Suzanne Jill Levine, Spanish and Portuguese
John Nathan, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
SPRING 2013
From the Academy to the Public Sphere: Writing Opinion Pieces for the Mainstream Media
Nelson Lichtenstein, History
LISO Symposium IV: “Multiple Engagements: Complexity in Human Involvement”
John W. DuBois, Linguistics
Amy Kyratzis, Education
Gene Lerner, Sociology
FALL 2012
Mediating the Nonhuman
Jeremy Douglass, English
James Pulizzi, English
Scott Selisker, English
Histories of the Japanese Book: Past, Present, Future
Michael Emmerich, East Asian Lanugages and Cultural Studies
SPRING 2012
Appoggiatura, a world premiere by James Still
Risa Brainin, Theater and Dance
UC-Caribbean Conference: “Rising Tides”
Roberto Strongman, Black Studies
Image and the Imaginary in 17th-Century China
Peter Sturman, History of Art & Architecture
Xiaorong Li, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies
FALL 2011
“Can Fiction Make Us Care?”
Aranye Fradenburg, English
Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, and Identity
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music
This Was Funny Yesterday: Humor and Power in Contemporary Art
Jane Mulfinger, Art
Stephanie Washburn, College of Creative Studies
SPRING 2011
The Past, Present, and Future of Feminist Studies
Eileen Boris, Feminist Studies
Patricia Cline Cohen, History
Entangled: A World Premiere
Risa Brainin, Theater and Dance
Earth in Crisis: The Emergence of New Political Cultures for Global Climate Justice
John Foran, Sociology
Richard Widick, Orfalea Center
Kazakhstan: The Meaning of Language for Ethnic and National Identity
Cynthia S. Kaplan, Political Science
Adrienne Edgar, History
Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aido’s 70th Birthday
Christina McMahon, Theater and Dance
Stephen Miescher, History
Jude Akudinobi, Black Studies
FALL 2010
Framing the Word: Bibles in European Culture and Society, c. 1250-1611
Sharon Farmer, History
Black California Dreamin’: Social Vision and the Crisis of California’s African American Communities
Clyde Woods, Black Studies
George Lipsitz, Black Studies
Gaye Johnson, Black Studies
SPRING 2010
Entrenchment and Plasticity: Linguistic and Literary Change
Aranye Fradenburg, English
Public Research, Participation, and Place: A Collective Mapping of Isla Vista, CA
Kim Yasuda, Art
Mike Goodchild, Geography
Martin Raubal, Cognitive Science
FALL 2009
Facs of Life
Colin Gardner, Art
The Speeds Project
Christopher Pilafian, Theater and Dance
Ninotchka Bennahum, Theater and Dance
The Ancient Mediterranean City in Real Space
Christine M. Thomas, Religious Studies
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, History
SPRING 2009
Women, Culture and the Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Cynthia Brown, French and Italian
Vox California: Cultural Meanings of Linguistic Diversity
Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics
Dolores Inés Casillas, Chican@ Studies
Literature and the Emotions: Talking Cures
Aranye Fradenburg, English
Bridging Worlds: New Approaches to U.S.-Middle East Relations
Salim Yaqub, History
FALL 2008
Food Sustainability & Food Security Conference
Allison Carruth, English
Stephanie LeMenager, English
Transnational Feminisms in Africa: A Seminar and Related Events with Professor Takyiwaa Manuh at UCSB
Peter Bloom, Film and Media Studies
Stephan Miescher, History
Constitutional Spain: Culture and Democracy, 1978-2008
Silvia Bermúdez, Spanish and Portuguese
The American Right and the U.S. Labor Movement: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Nelson Lichtenstein, History
Catherine Fisk, UC Irvine School of Law
SPRING 2008
Maize and Migration in Our Lives: Understanding Change and Persistence in One Maize Farming Family in Oaxaca, Mexico
Daniela Soleri, Geography
Vox California: Cultural Meanings of Linguistic Diversity
Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics
Doris Ines Casillas, Chicana and Chicano Studies
Black to ’68: A Global Year in Education
Jeffrey Stewart, Black Studies
FALL 2007
Space and Architecture in Modern Greece
Apostolos Athanassakis, Classics
Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice, and Global Ecology
Stephanie LeMenager, English
Democracy by Force?
Swati Chattopadhyay, History of Art
Bhaskar Sarkar, Film Studies
Bishnupriya Ghosh, English
Race, Space, and Power
George Lipsitz, Black Studies
Clyde Woods, Black Studies
Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media and Feminism
Anna Everett, Film Studies
William Warner, English
Writing, Performance and Theatricality in George Sand’s Works
Catherine Nesci, French and Italian
SPRING 2007
African and Afro-Caribbean Performance conference
Leo Cabranes-Grant, Spanish and Portuguese
Catherine Cole, Theater and Dance
Masculinities in Japan
Sabine Frühstück, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Grammar in Real Time: Linguistic Structure as Co-ordinated Action
Sandra Thompson, Linguistics
Gene Lerner, Sociology
Geoffrey Raymond, Sociology
The Buddhist Influence on Chinese Language and Literature
Hsiao-jung Yu, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
Exploring the Contribution of Walter H. Capps to the Study of Religion
Richard Hecht and Wade Clark Roof, Religious Studies
FALL 2006
Al-Jazeera and the New Arab Media
Kathleen Moore, Law and Society/Center for Middle East Studies
Synaesthesia in the Arts, Religion, and Cognitive Science
Ann Taves, Religious Studies
Michael Gazzaniga, Psychology
Intimate Labors: an Interdisciplinary Conference
Eileen Boris, Women’s Studies
Language, Interaction and Social Organization
Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics
Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Education
Gene Lerner, Sociology
SPRING 2006
Risa Brainin, Theater and Dance
Grace Chang, Women’s Studies and Jim Lee, Asian American Studies
Carl Gutierrez-Jones, English and George Lipsitz, Sociology
George Legrady, JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Marko Peljhan, Media Arts and Technology
FALL 2005
Disciplining the Horn
Steven Gross, Music
A Digital Drawing Model: The Temple of Artemis Project
Fikret Yegul, History of Art and Architecture (with UCLA collaborative team)
Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides 1500-1800
Anita Guerrini, History
SPRING 2005
Languages and Genes
Bernard Comrie, Linguistics
Carol Genetti, Linguistics
Subaltern II
Swati Chattopadhyay, Art History
FALL 2004
Iraq in Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here? Seventh Annual Regional Middle East Studies Conference
Juan Campo, Religious Studies
Nancy Gallagher, History
Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society
Scott Marcus, Music
Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization
John Du Bois, Linguistics
Sandra Thompson, Linguistics
Amy Kyratzis, Education
Don Zimmerman, Sociology
Paul Drew
Medieval Studies Conference: The Inquisitions Reopened
Ed English, History/Medieval Studies
Carol Lansing, History
Conference: AfroGEEKS II: International Perspective on the Digital Divide
Anna Everett, Film Studies/Black Studies
Guisela Latorre, Chicano Studies
Focus in Translation: Pilot Journal: First Issue: Proceedings of Humanities Conference April 2004: Literary Translation in the Humanities: Revisiting the Text
Suzanne J. Levine, Spanish and Portuguese
Yunte Huang, English
Annette Levine, Graduate Student
(Auto)biographies of Survival
Janet Walker, Film Studies
Kwame Braun, Art and Film Studies
“Home Free I.V.”: Action Research Design Group: Design Model for Mixed Use Faculty Housing and Research Center in the Community of Isla Vista
Kim Yasuda, Art
Harry Reese, Art
Jane Mulfinger, Art
Marco Peljhan, Art
Chris Miller-Fisher, Architect
SPRING 2004
On the Edges of Development
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, GISP/Sociology
Science, Theatre, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative
King/Young/Abbott/Storm, Drama/English
Calculating Machines: Art Between Relay and Network
Spieker/Kittler, Germanic and Slavic
FALL 2003
Subaltern and the Popular
Swati Chattopadhyay, Art History
Bhaskar Sarkar, Art History
AfroGEEKS: From Technophobia to Technophilia
Anna Everett, Film Studies
Facts, Rights and Remedies: Enforcing International Law in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Lisa Hajjar, Law and Society
Visiting Series on Poetics
Yunte Huang, English
FALL 2002
The Cultural Turn: Institutions and Instituting
Roger Friedland, Religious Studies
John Mohr, Sociology
Ninth Annual Conference on Language and Social Interaction
Gene Lerner, Sociology
Sandy Thompson, Linguistics
Chuck Bazerman, Education
Tabla Practice, Tabla Performance, and the Cultural Context of North Indian Classical Music in Nepal and India
Scott L. Marcus, Music
Towards a Critical Globalization Studies: Continuing Debates, New Directions and Neglected Topics
William I. Robinson, Sociology
Richard Appelbaum, Sociology
Irreconciliable Differences? Jacques Derrida and the Question of Religion
Elisabeth Weber, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Thomas Carlson, Religious Studies
SPRING 2002
A Cultural Cartography of Sera Byes Monastic University
Jose Ignacio Cabezon, Religious Studies
Violence, Victims and Vindication in Late Antiquity
H.A. Drake, History
Beyond Noise: Acoustic, Technical, and Metaphorical Aspects of Noise in Music and Visual Arts
Lisa Fales, Music
A Corpus of Christian Inscriptions and Monuments in Phrygia
Christine M. Thomas, Religious Studies
FALL 2001
Electronic Bibliography in Applied Linguistics (EBAL)
Dorothy Chun, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Timothy McGovern, Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Capitalism and its Culture: Rethinking Mid-20th Century American Social Thought
Nelson Lichtenstein, History
11th Annual UCSB New Music Festival and World Premiere of the Opera Red Azalea by William Kraft
William Kraft, Music
Race and Nation, Identity, and Power: Ethnic Systems Around the World
Paul Spickard, History
Queer Visions in the Americas: A Conference on LGBT/Q Studies in Religion
Melissa M. Wilcox, Religious Studies
SPRING 2001
Writing as a Human Activity: An Interdisciplinary Conference at UCSB
Charles Bazerman, Education
Charles Li, Education
Carol Holder, Education
Women’s Studies, Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity: Conversations for Change
Eileen Boris, Women’s Studies
West African Performance Ensemble and Artistic Residency
Catherine Cole, Drama
Nina Fales, Drama
Diabolical Beauty: A Collaborative Project
Colin Gardener, Art Studio
Jane Callister, Art Studio
FALL 2000
Trobada Catalana/ Catalan Encounter in Culture and Literature
Victor Fuentes, Spanish and Portuguese
Silvia Bermudez, Spanish and Portuguese
Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization
Charles Bazerman, Education
Sandra A. Thompson, Linguistics
Don Zimmerman, Sociology
SPRING 2000
Racialization of Crime
Carl Gutierrez-Jones, English
Denise Segura, Sociology
Jonathan Inda, Chicano Studies
Soviet Leader, Ideology, and the Cold War
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, History
Fredrik Logevall, History
Towards Comparative Epistemology
Bruce Robertson, History of Art
Mark Meadow, History of Art
Artist Exchange UNAM-Mexico
Richard Ross, Art Studio
Revealing the Sacred in Asia America
Paul Spickard, History
Wade-Clark Roof, Religious Studies
FALL 1999
Renegotiating the Scope of Chinese Studies
Francesca Bray, Anthropology
Charles Li, Linguistics
An Early End to the Cold War? Cold Culture and the East-West Conflict in the Aftermath of Stalin’s Death, 1953-1956
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, History
Aaron Belkin, Political Science
Chicano Studies Colloquium
Francisco A. Lomeli, Chicano Studies
J. Manual Casas, Spanish and Portuguese