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.

Monica Bulger

Monica Bulger, Graduate Student

Monica Bulger is a doctoral student at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.

Michael Osborne

Michael Osborne, Research Affiliate

Mike Osborne is a Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara and teaches the history of life sciences and scientific medicine, bioethics, and biology. He also works on environmental history and on European imperialism. He especially enjoys teaching about evolution.

Allan Knight

Allan Knight, Graduate Student

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

Jennifer Earl

Jennifer Earl, Director

Jennifer Earl is the Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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.

Richard Mayer

Richard Mayer, Faculty Steering Committee

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

Rich Appelbaum

Rich Appelbaum, Research Affiliate

Richard Appelbaum is Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Ron Rice

Ron Rice, Faculty Steering Committee

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.

Mark Bertelsen

Mark Bertelsen, External Advisory Board

Mark Bertelsen is a partner in Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's corporate practice.

Michael Stohl

Michael Stohl, Research Affiliate

Michael Stohl is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Stohl's research focuses on organizational and political communication with special reference to terrorism, human rights and global relations.

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