Danya Lagos

Assistant Professor

Web Site
http://www.danyalagos.com

Office
Social Sciences Building 480

Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae119.33 KB


Research Interests
Sex and Gender, Demography, Survey Methods, Health, Social Change, Embodiment



I am a sociologist who specializes in how gender is changing in the twenty-first century. I am particularly interested in the social demography of LGBTQ populations.?My work has been published in the?American Sociological Review,?Demography?and the?Annual Review of Sociology.
I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in April of 2019. During the 2019-2020 academic year, I was an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s?Population Research Center.?
Representative Publications
Lagos, Danya. (2022). Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born Between?1935?and?2001. American Journal of Sociology?127(6)?(Forthcoming)
Lagos, Danya and D’Lane Compton. (2021). Evaluating the Implementation of the Two-Step Gender Identity Question in the?2018?General Social Survey.?Demography?58(2), 763-771
Lagos, Danya. (2019). Hearing Gender: Voice-Based Gender Classification Processes and Transgender Health Inequality,?American Sociological Review?84(5),?801-827
2020?ASA Section on Body and Embodiment Graduate Student Paper Award
Lagos, Danya. (2018). Looking at Population Health Beyond ‘Male’ and ‘Female’: Implications of Transgender Identity and Gender Nonconformity for Population Health.?Demography?55(6),?2097-2117
?2019?Honorable Mention, ASA Section on Sociology of Population Student Paper Award
Schilt, Kristen and Danya Lagos. (2017). The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology.?Annual Review of Sociology?43,?425-443