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UCSB Reads 2025

Information about UCSB Reads 2025

Introduction

Each year, a committee of UCSB faculty, staff, students, and community partners convenes 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 longlist, which is narrowed down by vote to the "short list". The final book is chosen by vote from these five titles. 

2025 Advisory Committee Members

Christoffer Bovbjerg: Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
Veronica Castillo-Munoz: Faculty, History
Allyson Dahl: UCSB Undergraduate Student
Kenneth Kosik: Faculty, MCDB
Jasmine Liang: UCSB Undergraduate Student
Rebecca Metzger: UCSB Library
Sophie Najam: UCSB Undergraduate Student
Sharleen O'Brien: Director, Health & Wellness
Caitlin O'Hara: Director, Arts & Lectures
Alex Regan: UCSB Library
David Sherman: Faculty, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Heather Silva: UCSB Library
David Stein: Faculty, History
Anna Trugman: Faculty, Geography
Claudia Tyler: Faculty, College of Creative Studies
Barbara Warren: Community Member
Hangping Xu: Faculty, East Asian Studies