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Professor of Bioengineering Professor by courtesy of Mechanical Engineering, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, and Molecular, Developmental, and Cellular Biology Mehrabian Chancellor's Chair Director, NIH T32 Training Program in Quantitative Mechanobiology Director, NSF Research Training Program in Data Driven Biology

Dr. Beth L. Pruitt is a Professor of Bioengineering at UC Santa Barbara, where she moved in 2018 to help launch the biological engineering degree program. She served as the founding program director and department chair...

Professor & Department Vice Chair

Lisa H. Sideris is a Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also serves as Department Vice Chair. Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from...

Professor, Director of UCSB’s Mental Health Collaborative

Associate Professor, Acting Chair

Paasha Mahdavi is an Associate Professor and the Acting Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with an affiliation at the Bren School of Environmental Science &...

Distinguished Professor | Department Chair

Alison Butler is a Distinguished Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her specialization includes inorganic and organometallic...

Professor

Nathaniel Craig is a Professor at the Department of Physics at UC Santa Barbara, specializing in High Energy Physics, Particle Phenomenology, and Cosmology. His research focuses on theoretical aspects of fundamental...

Professor of Transnational Italian Studies; Chair, Department of French & Italian

Stephanie Malia Hom is a Professor of Transnational Italian Studies and Chair of the Department of French & Italian at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an affiliated faculty member of the Department...

Associate Professor

Summer Gray is an interdisciplinary social scientist and associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on coastal adaptation and the...

Associate Professor

Brad Bouley is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2012. His research focuses on the histories of religion...

Associate Professor

Amit Ahuja is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the processes of inclusion and exclusion in multiethnic societies, with...

Associate Professor

Dominic Steavu is a scholar specializing in the history of Daoism and Chinese Buddhism, with a particular focus on the history of medicine within these traditions. His research explores how material culture and...

Faculty

Francesc Castella is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to his current position, he served as an Instructor at Princeton University and as a...

Professor

Gene Lerner is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her academic specialization includes conversation analysis, social aspects of grammar, and the social...

Professor

Armand Kuris is a professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara. His laboratory engages in research across four interlocking areas, focusing on the nature of adaptive peaks...

Assistant Professor

David Pietraszewski received his B.A. from Ithaca College and his Ph.D. in Psychological and Brain Sciences from UCSB in 2009. Following his doctoral studies, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University...

Professor

Daniel Linz is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of media, sexuality, and law, with a strong...

Professor

Professor Jeffrey Hoelle is an environmental anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). His research focuses on understanding how people think about and use the environment, with particular...

Professor

Leila Carvalho is a Professor at the Department of Geography at UC Santa Barbara, located in 6808 Ellison Hall. Her research is situated within an interdisciplinary domain that investigates coupled systems to advance...

Associate Professor of English, Affiliate of Comparative Literature

Russell Samolsky is an associate professor of Anglophone literature in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests encompass South African literature, Modernism, Graphic...

Professor

Sarah E. Anderson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She specializes in environmental politics and American politics, with her academic affiliation also...