Director
Yasmine Hachimi is Director of the McNair Scholars Program at UCSB. She is a McNair Alumna (University of San Diego) and completed her PhD in English Literature at UC Davis in September 2022. While at Davis, Yasmine collaborated with faculty and students in the English Department to create inclusive spaces and host events that demystified graduate coursework, funding, and teaching. From 2016-2017, Yasmine was Program Assistant for the University of California Office of the President-funded UC-HBCU SPLASH Program, which provided intensive teaching and mentorship to students from HBCU’s to pursue graduate education. She brought these skills to the Undergraduate Research Center, where she served as an Academic Advisor and Program Manager of MMP-HArCSS (Mentor-Mentee Program in Humanities, Arts, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences) from 2018-2021. In this role, she facilitated mentorship opportunities between graduate and undergraduate students by organizing workshops and creating resources for undergraduate mentors across the university.
Prior to joining UCSB, Yasmine was a Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago (2022-2024). She co-curated the Newberry’s Seeing Race Before Race exhibition (Fall 2023) alongside Lia Markey, Rebecca Fall, Christopher Fletcher, and Noémie Ndiaye. In addition to her curatorial work, Yasmine co-created dynamic programs, workshops, talks, and conferences that contribute to the vibrant fields of medieval and early modern studies in order to cultivate new ways of seeing the world and ignite conversations that change how we relate to the past. Whether at a cultural institution or a university, Yasmine’s commitment to education manifests through her research, mentorship, and program building.