Introduction
Each year, a committee of faculty, staff, students, and community partners convene to select an intellectually stimulating, interdisciplinary book by a living author that appeals to a wide range of readers and can be incorporated into the UCSB curriculum. Each committee member suggests two titles to the long list, which is narrowed down by vote to the "short list". The final book is chosen by vote from these 5-6 titles. Below is the list of 2020-2021 committee members.
Rebecca Baker -Graduate Student, English
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia - Faculty, History
Jackson Eddy - UCSB Undergraduate Student
Jane Faulkner - UCSB Librarian
Allison Gray - Director, Goleta Valley Public Library
Michelle Grue - Doctoral Candidate, Education and Writing and Literature Fellow at CCS
Bruce Kendall - Faculty, Bren School
Dylan Martinez - UCSB Undergraduate Student
Patrick McCray - Faculty, History
Maria Napoli Community College Programs Manager, Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships
Erin Nerstad - Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Sharleen O'Brien - Director, UCSB Health and Wellness
Caitlin O'Hara Senior Publicist, UCSB Arts & Lectures
Sameer Pandya - Faculty, Asian-American Studies
Behrooz Parhami - Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Kathy Patterson - Faculty, Writing Program
David Pellow - Faculty, Environmental Studies
Alex Regan - UCSB Librarian
kynita stringer-stanback - UCSB Librarian
Emily Zinn - Associate Director, Carsey-Wolf Center
