Book Talk with Author Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho, Sept 17

Complex Innocence: Defending Defiant Victims of Police Killings, with Author & Professor Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho

Lisa marie cacho book talk, 4-6pm, sept 17, 2026 in 180-101

The Ethnic Studies Department will be hosting author and professor Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho from the University of Virginia for a book talk about her new title, Complex Innocence: Defending Defiant Victims of Police Killings. This event is available to the public and will take place on September 17th, from 4 pm to 6 pm in the Baker Center, Room 101 (Bldg. 180. Room 101). Please join us to hear more about her book and this topic!

 

About Dr. Lisa Marie Cacho

In her scholarship, Lisa Marie Cacho interrogates the ways in which human value is both ascribed and denied relationally along racial, gendered, sexual, national and spatial lines. Her book, Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (NYU Press, 2012) won the American Studies Association’s 2013 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize honoring the most outstanding book published the previous year in American Studies. She is an editor, along with Susan Koshy, Jodi Byrd, and Brian Jordan Jefferson, of Colonial Racial Capitalism (Duke 2022). Some of Cacho’s publications can be found in The Boston Review, GLQ, Social Text, and American Quarterly. Her new book, Complex Innocence: Defending Defiant Victims of Police Killings (NYU Press) will be published in Spring 2026.

Continue reading more from her bio here

 

Complex Innocence abstract and available to purchase here