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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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History doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill on Jeopardy

Jeopardy winner and doctoral candidate Kristen Thomas-McGill examines the history of child sexual abuse, celebrity and public memory
A person walks past a Vote Here sign in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Climate concerns likely gave Democrats the White House in 2020

US voters’ climate change opinions swing elections
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UCSB partners with local schools to support students facing trauma
Jean Beaman head shot
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Matt Perko
Jean Beaman, associate professor of sociology

Black Lives Matter in France – Ethnographer Jean Beaman reads transnational connections for Black liberation
Ingrid Banks
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Carolyn Casey
Ingrid Banks, associate professor of Black studies

‘The College Board really didn’t know the history of Black studies’
Professor Raymond Clemencon on a bluff overlooking the ocean
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COP28: ‘Historic failure’ by richest countries as the poorest are hit hardest by global warming
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Biological anthropologist Kristine Chua, postdoctoral fellow

Biological anthropologist expands Filipina maternal health research
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A trawler off the coast of South Africa

A ‘fish cartel’ for Africa could benefit the countries, and their seas
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Social-behavioral findings can be highly replicable, six-year study by four labs suggests
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A U.S. Department of Education grant will fund mental health services for K–12 schools nationwide

Expanding mental health treatment for schoolchildren focus of national grant award to Gevirtz School and partner universities
Giuliana Perrone photographed in black and white outdoors in sunlight
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Giuliana Perrone, October 2023

Freedom in the aftermath of slavery: historian Giuliana Perrone tracks the failures of American law
An illustration of a diversity of hands holding cell phones transmitting fake news
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Technology and democracy in crisis: time to ‘get uncomfortable and get curious’
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