Ian Carrillo

Ian Carrillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Oklahoma. He holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2018). His research focuses on environmental sociology, economic sociology, and qualitative methods, with a particular emphasis on racial capitalism, labor-environment dynamics, and structural inequality. His work has been supported by the Fulbright Association and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and his publications appear in leading journals like Current Sociology, Rural Sociology, and Sociological Perspectives.

Professor Carrillo’s research explores intersections of race, labor, and environmental justice, including studies of Brazil’s sugar-ethanol industry, U.S. meatpacking labor conditions during the pandemic, and racial politics in asylum policies. His recent work analyzes plantation afterlives in Brazil’s racial capitalism framework and the tension between environmental governance and racial inequality.

His grants and awards reflect his commitment to interdisciplinary research, with NSF funding supporting projects on environmental racism and labor precarity. He has also contributed critical reviews of major works in racial politics and environmental sociology.

His teaching and research interests further extend to rural sociology, qualitative methodologies, and the political economy of development in Latin America. He advises graduate students in sociology and related interdisciplinary programs.