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Actors in period workwear and a prosthetic pig mask perform on a dramatically lit stage with hay bales in UC Santa Barbara's production of Animal Farm.

Three graduating Theater and Dance students earn 2026 Indy Awards

Costume and lighting design for “Animal Farm” and “The Tempest” earned student honors alongside recognition for Department of Theater and Dance faculty, staff and an alum.

Book cover for Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs featuring large white lettering over a dark purple, blue, and green floral collage.

Writing Program scholar Victoria Houser examines purity culture’s lasting effects

The assistant teaching professor co-edited “Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs,” a collection examining religious trauma, bodily autonomy and pathways toward healing.

Dean Daina Ramey Berry speaking at a University of California podium. She wears a blue doctoral gown and tam during the 2026 commencement.

The world is waiting: Daina Ramey Berry’s 2026 Humanities and Fine Arts commencement address

Addressing UC Santa Barbara’s Class of 2026, Berry calls on graduates to meet an uncertain world with rigor, imagination, ethical judgment and courage.

UCSB historian Howard Chiang smiling in a dark blue suit and light pink tie, standing outdoors against a textured concrete wall.

Howard Chiang receives 2026 Dan David Prize for queer history and Sinophone studies

UC Santa Barbara professor and Center for Taiwan Studies director Howard Chiang is the first winner from East Asia to receive the world’s largest history prize.

Cast of The Tempest posing outdoors on Lazzaretto Nuovo island.

Five HFA faculty and graduate students honored with 2025-26 Academic Senate awards

Recognizing excellence in teaching, diversity and student mentorship across UC Santa Barbara’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts.

Threads of survival: One doctoral candidate reframes histories of conflict

UC Santa Barbara doctoral candidate Alida Jekabson explores how craft and textiles carry memory, identity and survival through war, displacement and resettlement.

Seven dancers from the UCSB Dance Company perform "We Were Light" on stage against a vibrant magenta backdrop. They are wearing white dresses over orange skirts and are leaning backward in unison.

Arts, dance and public humanities highlighted in chancellor’s inauguration events

Events marking the inauguration of Chancellor Dennis Assanis highlighted the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts through a UCSB Dance Company performance and references to campus strengths in film, public humanities and library scholarship.

A theatrical set of a bedroom bathed entirely in blue light, featuring a bed and retro TV, flanked on the outside by pale, ghostly cornstalks.

Department of Art MFA students to debut 'Fault Lines' exhibition at AD&A Museum

Graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the UC Santa Barbara Department of Art will showcase their dynamic final projects in the upcoming "Fault Lines" exhibition at the campus Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

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Three graduating Theater and Dance students earn 2026 Indy Awards

Writing Program scholar Victoria Houser examines purity culture’s lasting effects

The world is waiting: Daina Ramey Berry’s 2026 Humanities and Fine Arts commencement address

Howard Chiang receives 2026 Dan David Prize for queer history and Sinophone studies

Five HFA faculty and graduate students honored with 2025-26 Academic Senate awards

Threads of survival: One doctoral candidate reframes histories of conflict

Arts, dance and public humanities highlighted in chancellor’s inauguration events

Department of Art MFA students to debut 'Fault Lines' exhibition at AD&A Museum

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