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.
Mayfair Yang

Mayfair Yang, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Professor Mayfair Yang is interested in issues of religion, secularization, and the state in modernity, especially in the tensions and traumas accompanying the break with traditional orders under colonial and post-colonial conditions. Her areas of research and teaching are: critical theory; gender and feminism; media studies; sovereignty and state power; and cultural approaches to political economy.

Richard Mayer

Richard Mayer, Faculty Steering Committee Member

Richard E. Mayer is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he has served since 1975.

Bruce Bimber

Bruce Bimber, Director Emeritus

Bruce Bimber is Professor in the departments of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society.

Allan Knight

Allan Knight, Graduate Student

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

Eric Smith

Eric Smith, Research Affiliate

Professor Smith's research focuses on public opinion, elections, and environmental politics. In the area of environmental politics, he has been examining public opinion toward offshore oil development and nuclear power. He recently finished a book about public opinion on energy and environmental issues, Energy, the Environment, and Public Opinion.

Matthew Turk

Matthew Turk, Faculty Steering Committee Member

Matthew Turk is a professor in the Computer Science Department and the chair of the Media Arts and Technology Program, an interdisciplinary program positioned at the convergence of arts, media, and technology.

Chuck Bazerman

Chuck Bazerman, Research Affiliate

Professor Bazerman's commitment to literacy and the teaching of writing started thirty years ago when he was teaching first and third grade in inner-city Brooklyn.

Jim Blascovich

Jim Blascovich, Research Affiliate

James Blascovich is Professor of Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, Jim earned his BS in psychology at Loyola University of Chicago (1968) and PhD in social psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno (1972).

Ron Rice

Ron Rice, Faculty Steering Committee Member

Dr. Rice is the Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication, and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Andrew Flanagin

Andrew Flanagin, Faculty Steering Committee Member

Andrew Flanagin joined the UCSB Communication department in 1996 after earning MA and PhD degrees in Communication Theory and Research from the Annenberg School for Communication, at the University of Southern California.

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