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• The Capps Center is host to a Fulbright/U.S. State Department “Study of the United States” each summer. Eighteen scholars from countries around the world come to Santa Barbara for a four-week residency followed by a 12-day field trip across the country with visits to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. The theme for the institute is "Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence." The program began in 2002. • Funded by Fulbright and the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, the Capps Center sponsored an “Interfaith Dialogues Seminar,” August 18-September 14, 2007. Ten senior scholars and public officials from other countries, UCSB faculty, and other speakers engaged in an intensive exploration of the challenges of communicating across global religious, political, and ideological lines. • Roger Friedland and Paolo Gardinali at the University of California at Santa Barbara are conducting a study on religiosity, gender conceptions and sexuality. This involves a web-based survey of university students at UCSB and the University of Rome, La Sapienza. Wade Clark Roof is the Principal Investigator for a study funded by the Ford Foundation on "Prospects for Progressive Religion in the United States."
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