CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
The Cedric and Elizabeth Robinson Archives at the University of California, Santa Barbara are excited to share an open call to engage with the extensive Robinson Archive
Photo Credit: Jonathan Rissmeyer / UCSB Library
The Robinson Archive Visiting Scholar Fellowship is to support scholars (faculty; graduate students; independent researchers; artists; filmmakers; community organizers) who are not currently affiliated with the University of California Santa Barbara and are seeking to conduct research in the Cedric J. and Elizabeth P. Robinson Archives at UCSB.
A deeply influential educator, Cedric Robinson (1940-2016) was a well-known scholar of racial capitalism and the Black radical tradition, and an active participant in political movements, both at home and internationally. For more than 30 years, Elizabeth Robinson has been an educator, social worker, former associate director for media at KCSB-FM radio, activist, and community media producer. Reflecting the geographical and topical range of the Robinsons’ lifework, the collection includes textual, audio, and video materials related to major social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political theory, human rights, popular culture, community media, theatre and performance, and world history.
With the 2024 acquisition of the Robinson Archive from Elizabeth Robinson and the Robinsons’ daughter Najda Ife Robinson-Mayer, the Library launched the Post-Custodial, Community-based and Participatory Archives Project. This initiative aims to establish a living archive at UCSB centered on the Black Radical Tradition and the broader field of Black Studies. The Robinson Archive serves as an important anchor for the larger project, and will enable global research, teaching, scholarship, and sociopolitical and cultural activism for future generations.
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Applications close 15 December 2025