I’m Lawrence Stacey, and I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. I am also affiliated with the Center for Research on Inequality and Health and core faculty in the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab. I received my PhD in Sociology from the Ohio State University in August 2023, where I was a student affiliate of the Institute for Population Research.

I am a sociologist and demographer whose research interests revolve around gender, sexuality, health, medical sociology, and families. My primary line of research investigates health disparities beyond the gender binary and by sexual identity. Capitalizing on advancements in population-based surveys that increasingly recognize the sex/gender distinction, I shed novel light on the transgender health disadvantage by documenting heterogeneity across key categorical differences (e.g., sexuality), by studying temporal and life course variation, and by investigating the role of unequal access to and experiences within the medical institution. In other research, I study how gender and sexuality are implicated in parent-child and intimate relationships as well as the consequences of early life adversity for parenting, relationships, and health across the life course.

My research has been published in or is forthcoming at Social Forces, Demography, Sociological Science, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Marriage and Family, The Journal of Sex Research, and Sexualities, among other outlets. You can find my CV here.