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Book cover art for “It Rhymes with Takei,” illustrated by Harmony Becker

Star Trek actor George Takei and coming out in 2005

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people in India working on top of large bags of waste
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Dana Kornberg
Workers in India's waste economy

Race and caste capitalism: Who gets access to status and wealth?
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Alcohol marketing ushered in a golden age of drinking in America
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Nori Muster was a devotee of the Hare Krishna movement of the 1970s and 1980s

Seeking inner peace, finding moral rot
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Matt Perko
The sum total of our daily communication comprises our “social biomes.”

Improve your life by embracing everyday, even mundane, conversations? Research says yes.
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Matt Perko
Jane Ward is a professor and chair of UCSB's Department of Feminist Studies

How feminist witch studies redefine magic and power
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Matt Perko
Michelle Petty, February 2024

Black linguistic justice wins recognition in academia
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Professor Tania Israel receives distinguished career award
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Matt Perko

Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa writes definitive account of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II
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First Mahsa Amini fellow begins doctoral program in religious studies
Concept photo showing protestors holding climate change signs
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Leveraging social psychology to overcome barriers to climate action
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Black Studies Professor Sabrina Strings

How the romantic institution props-up a racialized dating landscape
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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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