Digital AGI

With 250 faculty affiliates, UCSB's Area Global Initiative enables and supports scholarly connections across world regions. Our faculty and students engage in innovative and consequential research on such topics as environmental justice and public health; conditional citizenship, migration and refugees; race and racism, indigenous rights, and resistance movements; securitization, carceral states, and abolition movements; feminism, transgender studies, queer theory, and intersectionality; creativity and activism in the global south and its diasporas.