Research Expertise and Interest
gender, transgender studies, social change, demography, survey research methods
Research Description
Danya Lagos is a sociologist who specializes in how gender is changing in the twenty-first century. They are particularly interested in the social demography of transgender populations. Their work has been published in the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography and the Annual Review of Sociology.
Lagos received their PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago in April of 2019. During the 2019-2020 academic year, they were an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s Population Research Center.
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 128 (1), 94-143
- 2024 ASA Section on Sociology of Population Award for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population (Honorable Mention)
- 2024 ASA Section on Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award (Honorable Mention)
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 ASA Section on Sociology of Population Student Paper Award (Honorable Mention)
Schilt, Kristen and Danya Lagos. (2017). The Development of Transgender Studies in Sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 43, 425-443