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Two Mapuche women smiling and wearing colorful, traditional attire with silver necklaces.
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Oscar Gutierrez Zozulia via iStock
The Mapuche are Chile’s largest Indigenous group, having retained independence form the Spanish empire for centuries.

Indigenous land restitution empowers communities, but environmental gains require extra support

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Headshot of Sabrina Strings a Black woman with yellow shirt and drop earings
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Black Studies Professor Sabrina Strings

How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape
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Scholars discuss Black reparations in California
mother nursing baby

Researchers find that a new mother’s immune status varies with her feeding strategy
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Matt Perko
Jeffrey C. Stewart

Historian Jeffrey Stewart elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for his work in the visual arts
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Mellon Foundation awards $100,000 grants to four UCSB social science departments
portrait of Trevor sociologist Trevor Auldridge Reveles
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Matt Perko
Trevor Auldridge-Reveles, March 2024

Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A sociologist looks for answers.
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Climate change policies lose popularity when combined with pausing regulations or social justice
Black man with trays of different insects
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Umberto Diecinove

Edible Insect Art Show displays culinary diversity & sustainability
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Mayra Puente receives AERA award for 'Platicando y Mapeando' educational research methodology
Jigna Desai - a woman with dark hair and glasses with brown skin
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Jeff Liang
Professor Jigna Desai, director of UCSB's Center for Feminist Futures

Center for Feminist Futures: A commitment to liberatory knowledge and action
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Matt Perko

‘In the Shadow of the Seawall’ tackles coastal land use dilemmas in the age of sea level rise
man in sweater with grey white hair inside a black sculpture's shadow
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Debra Herrick
Nelson Lichtenstein

Historian Nelson Lichtenstein: Clinton betrayed progressives, capitulated to the right
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