Yader R. Lanuza is assistant professor of sociology at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines the causes and consequences of social inequality in three domains: education, family and the criminal justice system. He focuses largely, though not exclusively, on the experiences of immigrants and their offspring from Latin America and Asia.

Ingmar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara. He researches how international institutions shape the dynamics of domestic and international migration caused by conflict and climate change. He focuses particularly on the role that UN bodies play in changing the calculus of migration decisions such as the capacity of these institutions to affect inter-ethnic trust and provide access to public goods. In a separate research agenda, Ingmar researches the effects of sex-ratio imbalances on the military. Aside from his substantive interest in issues around migration, demography, climate change, and political science, he is interested in survey research and quantitative methods. Prior to starting his Ph.D., he was a Teach First Deutschland fellow teaching math and English. Ingmar holds a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from University College Maastricht and an M.A. in international relations from Jacobs University.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research interests include racial/ethnic inequality, immigration, education, health disparities, urban geography, and quantitative methods. My individual and collaborative work examines explanations for why racial/ethnic and immigrant-origin groups are unequally distributed across contexts– including schools, neighborhoods, and immigrant destinations– and evaluates the consequences of this contextual inequality for disparities in outcomes in domains such as education, residential mobility, and health. I am particularly interested in understanding how the attributes of immigrant-receiving contexts, including states, communities, neighborhoods, and schools, influence the educational and health outcomes of children and adolescents of Mexican origin.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

 UCSB Office of Research Early-Stage Seed Grants Award Facilitating the Integration of U.S. Climate and Human Population Data (PI) 2022. $9,976

UCSB Faculty Career Development Award U.S. Latinx Destinations, Education, and Health. 2021-2022. $5,000

NICHD R03 Award. Immigrant Destinations, Institutional Supports, and Health among Latino/a Children. (PI; co-Investigator is Dr. Robert Crosnoe) 2018-2021. $100,000 

NSF (SES- Sociology) Award. Kin Location, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Health and Well-Being across the Life Course. (co-PI with Drs. Amy Spring and Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz). 2020-2023. $450,000

NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Immigrant Destinations and Achievement and Participation in STEM among Mexican-Origin Students. (PI). 2018-2019. $138,000