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Barbara Endemaño Walker

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Barbara Endemaño Walker concurrently serves as Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Office of Research and Special Assistant for Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). In these roles, she develops and leads institutional, statewide, and national initiatives designed to strengthen the research enterprise, expand individual and institutional participation in research, and increase the capacity of faculty and collaborative research teams.

Endemaño Walker was a founding board member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Through UCSB’s Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS), she has overseen programs that strengthen the effectiveness and capacity of collaborative research teams. She also leads the California Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Social Science Advancement (CAHSSA), a statewide initiative that supports community-based research and public scholarship in the social sciences while advancing the Hispanic-serving missions of California colleges and universities. She currently serves on the National Science Foundation’s Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, which advises NSF on strategies for broadening participation in science and engineering.

Before joining the Office of Research and the Office of the EVCP, Endemaño Walker was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in UCSB’s Department of Anthropology and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Her research and publications have addressed broadening participation in higher education and STEM, the political ecology of marine resources, and gender and the environment. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, NOAA Sea Grant, the Social Science Research Council, and the U.S. Department of Education, among other organizations.

Endemaño Walker earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography from the University of California Berkeley, and her B.A. in Anthropology and African Studies from the University of California Los Angeles.

Selected Research/Faculty Development Publications:

Walker, B.L.E. and Unruh, H. E. 2027. Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals. 2nd Edition. Routledge.
Endemaño Walker, B.L., Inniss, T.R., & Coley, C. (2025). In Support of Equitable Research Collaboration with Minority Serving Institutions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57(2), 47-57.
Skop, E.; Convening of Care Collective. (2024). Care in the Academic Research Enterprise: Reflections and a Call to Action from the Inaugural Convening of Care. Washington DC: Association of American Geographers.
Mitchneck, B., Crockett, J. S., Franco, M., Núñez, A. M., & Endemaño Walker, B. L. (2023). Assessing Institutional Change Toward Servingness in Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 55(6), 37-45.
Carroll, C., Garg, N., Migler, T., Walker, B.L.E., and Wood, Z. (2020). Mapping and visualization of publication networks of public university faculty in computer science and electrical engineering. Proceedings of 35th Annual Conference on Computers and Their Applications. EPiC Series in Computing, 69, Session MA2: Visualization and Image Processing.
Carter, S., Carlson, S., Crockett, J., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Lewis, K., & Walker, B.L.E. (2019). The Role of Research Development Professionals in Supporting Team Science. In K. Hall, R. Croyle, & A. Vogel (Eds.), Strategies for Team Science Success: Handbook of Evidence-based Principles for Cross-disciplinary Science and Practical Lessons Learned from Health Researchers. New York: Springer.
Walker, B.L.E. and Unruh, H.E. (2018). Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals. Routledge.
Byrnes, J. E. K., Ranganathan, J., Walker, B.L.E., and Faulkes, Z. (2014). To crowdfund research, scientists must build an audience for their work. PLoS One 9(12): e110329. doi:10.1371/

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Barbara Endemaño Walker concurrently serves as Director of Strategic Research Initiatives in the Office of Research and Special Assistant for Academic Initiatives in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). In these roles, she develops and leads institutional, statewide, and national initiatives designed to strengthen the research enterprise, expand individual and institutional participation in research, and increase the capacity of faculty and collaborative research teams.

Endemaño Walker was a founding board member of the National Organization of Research Development Professionals. Through UCSB’s Center for Research, Excellence, and Diversity in Team Scholarship (CREDITS), she has overseen programs that strengthen the effectiveness and capacity of collaborative research teams. She also leads the California Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Social Science Advancement (CAHSSA), a statewide initiative that supports community-based research and public scholarship in the social sciences while advancing the Hispanic-serving missions of California colleges and universities. She currently serves on the National Science Foundation’s Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering, which advises NSF on strategies for broadening participation in science and engineering.

Before joining the Office of Research and the Office of the EVCP, Endemaño Walker was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in UCSB’s Department of Anthropology and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis. Her research and publications have addressed broadening participation in higher education and STEM, the political ecology of marine resources, and gender and the environment. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, NOAA Sea Grant, the Social Science Research Council, and the U.S. Department of Education, among other organizations.

Endemaño Walker earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Geography from the University of California Berkeley, and her B.A. in Anthropology and African Studies from the University of California Los Angeles.

Selected Research/Faculty Development Publications:

Walker, B.L.E. and Unruh, H. E. 2027. Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals. 2nd Edition. Routledge.
Endemaño Walker, B.L., Inniss, T.R., & Coley, C. (2025). In Support of Equitable Research Collaboration with Minority Serving Institutions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57(2), 47-57.
Skop, E.; Convening of Care Collective. (2024). Care in the Academic Research Enterprise: Reflections and a Call to Action from the Inaugural Convening of Care. Washington DC: Association of American Geographers.
Mitchneck, B., Crockett, J. S., Franco, M., Núñez, A. M., & Endemaño Walker, B. L. (2023). Assessing Institutional Change Toward Servingness in Hispanic-Serving Institutions. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 55(6), 37-45.
Carroll, C., Garg, N., Migler, T., Walker, B.L.E., and Wood, Z. (2020). Mapping and visualization of publication networks of public university faculty in computer science and electrical engineering. Proceedings of 35th Annual Conference on Computers and Their Applications. EPiC Series in Computing, 69, Session MA2: Visualization and Image Processing.
Carter, S., Carlson, S., Crockett, J., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Lewis, K., & Walker, B.L.E. (2019). The Role of Research Development Professionals in Supporting Team Science. In K. Hall, R. Croyle, & A. Vogel (Eds.), Strategies for Team Science Success: Handbook of Evidence-based Principles for Cross-disciplinary Science and Practical Lessons Learned from Health Researchers. New York: Springer.
Walker, B.L.E. and Unruh, H.E. (2018). Funding Your Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A Practical Guide to Grant and Fellowship Proposals. Routledge.
Byrnes, J. E. K., Ranganathan, J., Walker, B.L.E., and Faulkes, Z. (2014). To crowdfund research, scientists must build an audience for their work. PLoS One 9(12): e110329. doi:10.1371/