Lawrence Stacey

Lawrence Stacey is assistant professor in the department of sociology at Vanderbilt University, where he is associate director of the LGBTQ+ Policy Lab and affiliated with the Center for Research on Inequality and Health. His research investigates core issues of inequality and health in the contemporary United States, substantively concentrated in the areas of gender, sexuality, and families. One strand of his research investigates health disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ populations, and how and why those disparities vary by institutional contexts, over historical time, and across the life course. Another strand of his research examines the consequences of childhood adversity for well-being, relationships, and parenting, given the importance of childhood as a pivotal and sensitive stage in the life course. Lawrence holds a PhD in sociology from the Ohio State University.

At the Harvard Pop Center, Lawrence is working on a project that examines the evolution of health disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ populations over the past decade and the role of demographic change in explaining such changes.