Bailey Otter

Bailey Otter is a first-year PhD student in Sociology at the University of Michigan, a predoctoral trainee at the Population Studies Center, and a Rackham Merit Fellow. Bailey’s research examines how nonbinary people (individuals whose gender identities exist beyond the man/woman binary) construct, express, and negotiate their identities throughout the life course. These inquiries live at the intersection of gender, health, family, embodiment, and aging. Their publishable paper will combine a secondary data analysis of the U.S. Transgender Survey with in-depth interviews nonbinary individuals over the age of 50 to explore what it means to age as a nonbinary person. In another line of research, they are working with Dr. Daniel Bartholomay on a paper centered on experiences of, responses to, and impacts of nonbinary gender identity erasure within various social institutions. Bailey earned their BA in Sociology from Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. In undergrad, they were a McNair Scholar and did research on nonbinary joy. They are a proud first-generation college student and would love to connect with prospective graduate students over email or Zoom.