A ‘Somber Urgency’: Research on mass shootings, U.S. gun culture selected as first project of Pahl Initiative on the Study of Critical Social Issues

One of the greatest crises currently facing the United States — mass shootings — is the focus of new and potentially ground-breaking social science research to be conducted at UC Santa Barbara.

The work is expected to yield new knowledge that will inform policymakers, activists and the public at large. The project “Mass Shootings in America: Men, Masculinity, Guns and U.S. Gun Culture,” by Tristan Bridges, an assistant professor of sociology, is the inaugural awardee of the university’s nascent Pahl Initiative on the Study of Critical Social Issues in the Division of Social Sciences.

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