
Dr. Carrillo is a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Departments of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara. In Brazil, he works in affiliation with the Social Science Center for Development, Agriculture, and Society at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2018, he completed his PhD in Sociology and Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2021, he will join the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor of sociology. His research and teaching interests include race and ethnicity, environmental sociology, and economic sociology. Ian uses qualitative, ethnographic, and comparative-historical methods to examine how race and racism shape the formation of environmental practices and policies in multi-racial societies, such as Brazil and the U.S. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships.