Opportunities

The Division of Social Sciences is now accepting applications for the “Horacio Roque Ramirez Central American Studies Scholarship”. The purpose of this scholarship is to celebrate Central American history, culture, community, and studies at UC Santa Barbara. The scholarship is in honor of Professor Horacio Roque Ramirez (1969-2015), whose ethnographic and archival research focused on Central Americans in the US, queer Latinx community life in San Francisco, and Latino sexuality and hope in an era of AIDS and deportation. At UCSB, he developed the courses “Central Americans in the U.S./The U.S. in Central America,” and “Salvadoran Diasporas.”

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Area Global Initiative (AGI) invite faculty to apply to participate in a series of grant development retreats to support collaborative research teams. Designed in response to a survey of faculty affiliates of AGI’s member centers, the program provides a framework that includes time, space, and community to support faculty seeking major grants to conduct collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Throughout the academic year, faculty teams will participate in writing retreats and individualized sessions with grant development specialists in Strategic Research Initiatives of the Office of Research with the aim of preparing grant proposals for extramural funding within the next 18 months. Each proposing team must include at least one faculty member who is affiliated with an AGI member center (Africa Center, CLAIR, CMES, EAC, or Orfalea Center). For more information and directions to apply, click header.