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.

I am an Associate 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, population-environment interactions, 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 inequality in contextual exposures for disparities in outcomes in domains such as education, residential mobility, and health. 

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

I am a graduate student in the Integrative Anthropological Sciences program. My research interests include human behavioral ecology, sexual conflict theory, parental investment, gender equality, as well as intimate partner violence. My current research focuses on understanding the variation in men’s attitudes across dimensions of women’s empowerment. I conduct field research in Mwanza region, Tanzania. I completed my undergraduate degree in Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond in 2017. Prior to enrolling at UCSB, I worked as a field researcher for Dr. Christopher von Rueden in Amazonian Bolivia, a primary investigator for Project Schoolhouse in rural Nicaragua, and a research assistant to Dr. David Lawson in Tanzania.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

UCSB Research Accelerator Grant- I am PI on the grant supporting Summer 2022 PhD data collection for the project. The Cost of Change: The social and reproductive ramifications for men supporting women’s empowerment. $8,000.

European Human Behavior and Evolution Association Conference 2022- Best Speed Talk Award- total 100 Euros.

Chris is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on how internal migration and demographic change affect elections, representation, political participation, and public policy. Current projects examine how black outmigration to suburbs impacts minority representation in traditionally white districts at the state and local level, and on how the spatial distribution of minority voters affects electoral outcomes. Additional research explores how humans interact with the natural environment, and Chris is currently a Crossroads Fellow at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management where he is part of a team examining public opinion toward Grizzly Bear reintroduction in California.

Current Fellowships:

Crossroads Fellow, Bren School for Environmental Science and Management.