Humanities and Fine Arts Commencement Ceremony
Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 4:00PM
Commencement Green

For a more details and a full schedule, visit https://www.ucsb.edu/commencement.

Join the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts as we celebrate the accomplishments of the graduating class of 2024! Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III of the Smithsonian Institution will be our guest speaker.

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian. He assumed his position June 16, 2019. As Secretary, he oversees 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo, numerous research centers, and several education units and centers. Two new museums—the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum—are in development. Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bunch chronicled the creation of the museum in his book, A Fool’s Errand: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump, and is the first historian to be Secretary of the Institution. In 2021, he received France’s highest award, The Legion of Honor.

Read more about Secretary Bunch’s work here: https://www.si.edu/about/bios/lonnie-g-bunch-III.

Congratulations to the #UCSB2024 graduates!