Rate My Professor Stacey Rucas

Rucas received the Richard K. Simon Award for Outstanding Career Achievement in Teaching in 2024. Her key publications include invited book chapters such as "Cooperation drives competition among Tsimane Women of the Bolivian Amazon" and "Social aggression, sleep, and wellbeing among Sidama Women of rural southwestern Ethiopia" in the Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition (2017), refereed journal articles like "The Social Strategy Game: Resource competition within female social networks among small-scale forager-horticulturalists" (Human Nature, 2010), "Social aggression and resource conflict across the female life-course in the Bolivian Amazon" (Aggressive Behavior, 2012), "Why do men marry and why do they stray" (Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2007), and "Female intrasexual competition and reputational effects on attractiveness among the Tsimane of Bolivia" (Evolution and Human Behavior, 2006), as well as the encyclopedia entry "Current versus future reproduction trade-offs" (2018). She has directed study abroad programs including the Cal Poly Global Program in Thailand and Cambodia and served as Resident Director for the Thailand Studies Program. Additionally, she has contributed to department initiatives such as career fairs, WASC strategic planning, and first-generation student support.