June 21, 2010
TO THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY
Dear Colleagues:
I am very pleased to join with Chancellor Henry Yang in announcing that Professor John Talbott has graciously agreed to serve as our next associate vice chancellor for academic personnel, effective July 1, 2010.
Professor Talbott brings valuable expertise to this role. He has served as chair of the History Department and has been both a member and chair of the Committee on Academic Personnel. We are confident that he will do an outstanding job of overseeing the broad range of academic personnel issues involved in supporting UCSB’s distinguished faculty and our academic mission. We greatly appreciate the advice and input of our many colleagues who helped bring this search to its successful conclusion. We extend special thanks to our co-chairs, Alison Butler and Bob McMeeking, and all of the members of our search advisory committee (listed below).
Professor Talbott has been a member of the UCSB History Department since 1971. He received his PhD from Stanford University and has taught at Princeton University, Stanford, and the U.S. Naval War College. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation and from the UC President’s initiative in the Humanities. In addition to his service on CAP and as History department chair, he has served on the Editorial Committee of the University of California Press as well as a number of campus and UC-wide Academic Senate committees. He has written books and articles on subjects ranging from the English Navy in the eighteenth century to the Algerian War. His current research is a history of combat stress titled Mind Wounds: War and Psychic Injury from Bull Run to Falluja.
Please join us in welcoming Professor Talbott as our next associate vice chancellor for academic personnel. We thank him for his willingness to serve our campus in this critical role.
Sincerely,
Gene Lucas
Executive Vice Chancellor
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Search Advisory Committee for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel
Alison Butler, Co-Chair, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Robert McMeeking, Co-Chair, Professor, Mechanical and Environmental Engineering
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor, History
Jill Felber, Professor, Music
Jim Blascovich, Professor Psychology
George Lipsitz, Professor, Black Studies and Sociology
Laura Romo, Associate Professor, Education
Kathy Schreiber, Professor, Anthropology]
Consultant to the Committee:
Ricardo Alcaino (Director, Office of Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance)