Lacey Bobier

Lacey Bobier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health & Society at the University of Toronto Scarborough, working with Professor Jessica Fields. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan in 2023, under the supervision of Karin Martin, Elizabeth Armstrong, Sara McClelland, and Erin Cech. Bobier’s work explores how cultural discourses and formal policies shape everyday embodied practices and experiences (such as menstruation or getting dressed), producing gender and gender inequalities in childhood and adolescent sexual subjectivity. Bobier is currently working on a book manuscript detailing how middle-school dress codes function as disciplinary mechanisms that produce gendered embodied and academic inequalities. Bobier’s work has been recognized by fellowships, grants, honors, and awards, such as the University of Michigan Schweitzer Fellowship (2013), Sociology Dissertation Research Grant (2020), and Rackham Dissertation Fellowship (2021). In 2023-24, Bobier also serves as graduate student representative to the ASA Body & Embodiment Section.