Karyn Lacy

Social Sciences · University of Michigan

Mid career · publishing since 2002

Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies Race, History, and American Society Critical Race Theory in Education Social and Cultural Dynamics Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Publications

Citations

1,231

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2002

In context

Among 947 mid career Social Sciences PIs within our index

Citations: 1,231cohort median 312

Publications / year (recent): 0.4cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~1 · 100% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 4 venues

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.4/year recently

Recent publications

:<i>An Ugly Word: Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States</i>
American Journal of Sociology · 2024
Achieving the American Dream
2022
Caste: the origins of our discontents
Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2021
“The windows of heaven” : temple windows in the Hebrew Bible and in comparative ancient Near Eastern evidence.
2020
Blue-Chip Black
2019
The Missing Middle Class: Race, Suburban Ethnography, and the Challenges of “Studying Up”
2019
Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the Black Middle Class
2019
5. Race- and Class-Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia
2019
3. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces
2019
6. Suburban Identities: Building Alliances with Neighbors
2019
2. Social Organization in Washington’s Suburbia
2019
1. Defining the Post-Integration Black Middle Classes
2019
4. Status-Based Identities: Protecting and Reproducing Middle-Class Status
2019
Problems, Puzzles, and the Production of Knowledge: Harnessing Census Data in the Age of Trump
City and Community · 2018
The New Sociology of Suburbs: A Research Agenda for Analysis of Emerging Trends
Annual Review of Sociology · 2016

Publishes in

Annual Review of Sociology×1
Ethnic and Racial Studies×1
City and Community×1
American Journal of Sociology×1

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