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Cross-Strait Commerce as Credible Signaling

Event Start: May 07, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 07, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:

Steve Chan, Professor of Political Science at University of Coloardo at Boulder and Director of teh Farrand Residence Academic Program

Roundtable: The Study of Identity and the Choice of Methods

Event Start: November 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: November 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

The round-table is a discussion about choosing methods in the study of identity. As part of the round-table, we particularly encourage the participation of graduate students who will be asked to present the puzzle which they are studying, evidence which they intend to use, and the methods which they are considering.

Sponsored by the IHC’s Identity Studies RFG.

PS 595 Credit.

Political Science Grad Students Awarded Fellowships

The UCSB Graduate Division recently awarded three political science graduate students special fellowships and research grants.

Katie Ostrander Swain received a Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation entitled: "Local Places Open Spaces: Creating Substantive Citizenship in the Presence of Race Neutrality."

Kathleen Cole and Jeanette Yih Harvie each received a Graduate Division Humanities and Social Sciences Research grant for their research projects.

Job Opening in the Politics of Identity

The University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Political Science seeks a scholar who focuses on the politics of identity for a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor effective July 1, 2015. The successful candidate should be a scholar who studies topics such as the ways in which race, ethnicity, class, religion, or other identity-relevant factors shape political beliefs, collective action, institutions, or policies; or who explores the meaning and significance of identity in politics.

"Marriage.com: Reproducing caste and class in modern India"

Event Start: January 25, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: January 25, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Prof. Amit Ahuja

Prof. Amit Ahuja will present his new work co-authored with Susan Ostermann.

Sponsored by Dept. of Political Science and RFG Identity

New Graduate Student Orientation

Event Start: September 23, 2013 04:00 PM

Event End: September 23, 2013 04:00 PM

Event Location: The Lane Room

2013 Orientation for New Political Science Graduate Students

Monday, September 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 (Third Floor of Ellison Hall)

9:00 am - Light Breakfast, followed by an introduction to the program, department staff

Roundtable: S. Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

Event Start: February 21, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: February 21, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

UCSB Senior Awarded Public Service Grant from Strauss Foundation

Nanor Balabanian, a senior honors student in the political science department, has received a $10,000 public service scholarship from the Donald A. Strauss Foundation.  The Strauss grants fund public service projects to be carried out in the students’ senior year.