Danya Lagos
I am a sociologist who specializes in changes 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.
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