The pass from Jacob 🤌 Two-hand flush from Amadou 😤 Amadou Sow and Jacob Young looked real comfortable in their NBA session today 👀⭐️ Jacob Young x Oregon Men's Basketball x Amadou Sow x UC Santa Barbara Basketball x Florida's Sports Coast

If the court overturns Roe v. Wade, it will be a direct assault on freedom.

I don’t care how the draft leaked. That’s a sideshow. What I care about is that a small number of conservative justices, who lied about their plans to the Senate, intend to deprive millions of women of reproductive care. Codifying Roe isn't enough. We must expand the court.

WATCH #LIVE: Officials provide update following deadly shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Orange County abc7.la/3PzZE1h

Congrats to the #MiamiHeat for advancing to the Eastern Conference #NBA Finals! Congrats especially to Gabe Vincent (Gabe Nnamdi Vincent), our very own UCSB alum & Religious Studies major. We will be cheering you on tonight against the Celtics at 5:30 PCT!

So proud to see Maxwell Kupchak today evaluating NBA Draft prospects in Santa Barbara for the ⁦Charlotte Hornets! ⁩#GoGauchos

Join us next Tues 5/31 from 4-6pm on the #UCSB campus for a talk by Laurie Maffly-Kipp on “Self-Styled Mormons: Crafting a Non-Institutional Mormonism in West Africa.” #religion #politics #lecture #ldschurch #WestAfrica

Positionality is how my background, life experiences & identities inform my research & writing. Positionality has benefits, but people who share it also pay a price. Join my final Evans-Pritchard lecture, "EMBRACING POSITIONALITY" live on Tuesday 5pm UK: asc.ox.ac.uk/event-series/e…

Probably a good move ... After a Professor’s Scrutiny, ‘U.S. News’ Pulls Columbia University's No. 2 Ranking chronicle.com/article/after-…

This is a great read by a dear friend and brilliant scholar, Prof. Mark Massoud. "The price of positionality: assessing the benefits and burdens of self‐identification in research methods" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis That Roiled Florida’s Flagship chronicle.com/article/inside…

An excellent essay written by UCSB Religious Studies professor Joe Blankholm. #religion #studyofreligion #essay #academia

Excited for this Friday’s daylong symposium on Joe Blankholm’s The Secular Paradox (2022)! Three great sessions featuring Terence Keel, Candace Lukasik, and @bethhurd.bsky.social. Join us in person from 10:00 to 5:30pm in Robertson Gym 1000A, UCSB.

In an interview with "L'Orient-Le Jour", historian and activist Janet Afary, a UCSB Religious Studies faculty member, evokes the decades of Iranian women's fierce fighting and highlights the specific historical characteristics of Iranian feminism. lorientlejour.com/article/131327…

After 791 days of legal persecution, traumatized kids, sleep deprivation, closed bank accounts & assets, & exodus to the United States, the Higher Court has ruled that investigation of terrorism allegations against me was false #operationluxor #justice derstandard.at/story/20001424…

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Santa Barbara Gets (Mostly) Moving Again After Storm independent.com/2023/01/11/pla…

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨 The IAHR call for individual papers and closed panels/roundtables is OPEN! Submissions are considered on a rolling basis. More info: iahr2025.org

Hello, UC Santa Barbara students! The UCSB Religious Studies department is offering fascinating summer session courses. They are now up on GOLD. Check them out and register if you're interested! The flyers are attached!

I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here: p2a.co/MPoM4hN

Planning my getaway to Vegas - staying at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. For friends & family: flip.to/r/fqy3k Westgate Las Vegas