Barbara Endemaño Walker concurrently serves as the Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Office of Research and the Special Assistant for Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UCSB. Prior to joining the Office of Research, she was an NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at UCSB. Her research and publications focus on broadening participation in higher education and STEM, the political ecology of marine resources, and gender and the environment. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, NOAA Sea Grant, the Social Science Research Council, and the Department of Education, among others. She was a founding board member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP), and she leads national and state-wide projects that focus on broadening participation in higher education in the context of the research enterprise. Through the Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS), she oversees programs that increase the capacity for research teams. She also leads the California Alliance for Hispanic-serving Social Science Advancement (CAHSSA) which strengthens community-based research and public scholarship in the social sciences to align with the Hispanic-serving mission of institutions of higher education in California. She serves on the National Science Foundation (NSF) Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE). She is also co-author of the book Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals (Routledge 2017). Endemaño Walker has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Anthropology and African Studies from UCLA.
Contact for: humanities, arts, social science, education, and interdisciplinary research; consulting on conceptualizing, developing, and refining proposals for extramural funding; facilitating research team development and building capacity for effective teams; presenting workshops and seminars on various research and proposal writing topics; facilitating interactions between faculty and agency program directors; new faculty orientation; and assistance with long term strategic planning and career mentoring.