May 24, 2023
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To: The Campus Community
From: David Marshall, Executive Vice Chancellor
Michael Miller, Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education
Re: UC Santa Barbara EAP Faculty Director
We are pleased to announce that Professor Fabio Rambelli has agreed to become the next Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Education Abroad Program (EAP), effective July 1, 2023. Professor Rambelli, who holds the International Shinto Foundation Endowed Chair, is a professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies. He is the current chair of Religious Studies and the former chair of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as faculty director of the UCEAP Tokyo Study Center. Professor Rambelli’s main field of research and teaching is Japanese religion and cultural history, especially the Esoteric Buddhist tradition (mikkyõ) and the history of Shinto. We are grateful to the advisory search committee, the membership of which is listed below.
We would like to again thank Professor Juan Campo for his exemplary service as our campus EAP director for the last 13 years. Under Professor Campo’s leadership, UCSB EAP increased enrollment and maintained its status as a model in the University of California system. Professor Campo presided over the renewal of the program after the suspension of UCEAP programs during the pandemic, increasing campus enrollment to more than 950 participants this year. Among Professor Campo’s accomplishments was the establishment of scholarship opportunities for our EAP students, including the Freeman Foundation Internship program, which provides scholarships for students studying in East Asia, and the Griffiths Foundation EAP Scholarship program for students studying in Asia. We thank Juan for his dedicated service and his lasting contributions to our campus.
We look forward to working with Professor Rambelli and the excellent staff of our UCSB EAP program.
Search Advisory Committee
- Michael Miller, Committee Chair, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of Undergraduate Education, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Gerardo Aldana, Faculty Director of Repository for Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections, Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies
- Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Associate Vice Chancellor Global Engagement and Senior International Officer, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- Maurizia Boscagli, Professor of English
- Luke Roberts, Professor of History
- Yanoula Athanassakis, Director of Academic Planning and Policy, Academic Affairs
- Michelle Stransky, Assistant Dean of Administration, Undergraduate Education
- Emily Tom-Atzberger, Associate Director of Education Abroad Program
- Kaitlyn Do, EAP Student Peer Advisor