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WashU Sociology's Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Karyn Lacy

The WashU Sociology Colloquium Series invites visiting scholars to share their work, while contributing to the general intellectual culture of the WashU Sociology Department.

Join the WashU Department of Sociology for our third installment of the Spring 2026 Colloquium Series, featuring Prof. Karyn Lacy

Presentation title forthcoming. 

Karyn Lacy is Associate Professor of Sociology and African American studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD from Harvard University, is a Ford Fellow, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her work focuses on race relations, residential segregation, identity, parental socialization, social stratification, and suburban culture. Her book Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class (University of California Press) received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, and she is a contributing writer to media outlets including the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lacy's current work explores the construction and reproduction of racial and class-based identities among members of an elite children's organization.

More about our guest: https://scholars.org/scholar/karyn-lacy 


Colloquia are open to a broader WashU audience; however, space is limited. 
Students who are interested in more advanced sociological inquiry are strongly encouraged to attend