People

The people associated with CITS are what make us special: at heart, CITS is a network of internationally- and nationally-renowned researchers from UCSB, inquisitive and talented graduate students from UCSB, and industry and intellectual thought leaders who serve as External Advisory Board members or CITS Fellows. Below we provide a glimpse of CITS by introducing you to some of the people who make our Center shine. Click on the links in the sidebar for a full listing of names for each category.

Snapshot of CITS

Here’s a random sample of the people that make CITS such an exciting place. Refresh your browser to see a different group of folks.
James Frew

James Frew, Faculty Steering Committee Member

James Frew is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and a principal investigator in UCSB's Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS).

Allan Knight

Allan Knight, Graduate Student

Allan Knight is a graduate student in Computer Science and a long time graduate researcher for CITS.

Jacqueline Stevens

Jacqueline Stevens, Research Affiliate

Jacqueline Stevens teaches in the Law and Society Department at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Stevens writes about how laws create hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. Her focus is on the role law plays in constituting the nation, ethnicity, race, family, kinship, and sexuality.

Amber Westcott-Baker

Amber Westcott-Baker, Graduate Student

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Peter Bloom

Peter Bloom, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Specializing in French and Francophone cinema and society, his interests range from the history of film technologies, narratives of body techniques, avant-garde and experimental movements, to contemporary film and media in Europe and Africa.

Charles House

Charles House, External Advisory Board

Charles "Chuck" House is the executive director of Media X, Stanford University's membership research program on media and technology.

Katy Pearce

Katy Pearce, Graduate Student, Staff

Katy Pearce is a doctoral student at UC Santa Barbara in the Communication department.

Rita Raley

Rita Raley, Faculty Steering Committee Member

Rita Raley researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context.

Doc Searls

Doc Searls, Fellow

Doc Searls' long and varied professional history includes work as a newspaper and magazine editor, radio personality and marketing executive.

Barbara Herr Harthorn

Barbara Herr Harthorn, Research Affiliate

Barbara Herr Harthorn, Principal Investigator and Director of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center: Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) at University of California at Santa Barbara, is also Associate Professor of Women's Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Global Studies in the Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research.

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