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Howard Chiang, UCSB historian

Howard Chiang honored for career in queer history and Sinophone studies

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Matt Perko
Alex S. Fabros Jr., May 2026

Alex Fabros, 80, makes history at UCSB
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Douglass Day at UCSB invites the public to transcribe Black history
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Jeff Liang

How books helped make computers mainstream
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Alexis Okeowo

Writer Alexis Okeowo opens Arts & Lectures’ Justice for All series
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Alcohol marketing ushered in a golden age of drinking in America
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Connecting the past to the present, the documentary "We Were Here" sparks conversations about representation, belonging and historical memory.

Europe’s hidden Black Africans of the Renaissance
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Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa writes definitive account of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
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From Juneteenth to reparations: The ongoing journey for racial justice
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University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2024
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Four undergraduates and one professor receive Chancellor’s research awards
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Scholars discuss Black reparations in California
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UC Santa Barbara selects inaugural Public Voices Fellows
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