Ted Giardello is an undergraduate majoring in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Ted’s interests include political history, historiography, and culture. His current research is being pursued through university and government archives, which involves FBI documents pertaining to local history (and more) currently under review by government censors for the first time, in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. 

Ted is a member of the editorial collective for the Isla Vista Reformists, Radicals, and Revolutionaries multi-volume multi-media historiography project. Through documentary films, journalistic profiles, and research monographs, this project seeks to document and critically assess political action on and off campus.