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SunAh Laybourn is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Memphis. She holds a PhD from the University of Maryland (2018). Her research focuses on race and ethnicity, identity development, and Asian American experiences, with a particular emphasis on Korean transnational adoptees. Her 2024 book Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants examines citizenship, belonging, and race-making processes among adoptees. Current projects explore Asian American in/visibility in sociological research and historical Black colleges' approaches to Japanese Americans post-internment.
Her work has appeared in Social Problems, Symbolic Interaction, and Ethnic & Racial Studies. She co-authored Diversity in Black Greek-Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line (2018). Laybourn’s articles address transnational adoption, hip-hop culture, and Black social movements. She critiques systemic exclusions faced by adoptees and advocates for intersectional analyses in race studies.
Research interests include transracial adoption politics, the model minority myth, and the sociology of music. Her work bridges personal narrative with structural critique, emphasizing marginalized voices in sociological inquiry.
