Taylor Hargrove
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Taylor W. Hargrove received her Ph.D. in Sociology
from Vanderbilt University in 2016. She is currently a Carolina Postdoctoral
Program for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the
Carolina Population Center. As a medical sociologist, Dr. Hargrove’s work
bridges sociological, epidemiological, demographic, and gerontological
perspectives to examine the joint consequences of multiple systems of
stratification (e.g., race/ethnicity, skin color, gender, social class) on
health inequality throughout the life course. In her current research, Dr.
Hargrove extends this work by identifying specific mechanisms through which
social statuses, experiences, and environments “get under the skin” to produce
complex patterns of health inequality. She will also explore how these social
factors independently and collectively combine with genetic processes to
influence the more proximate causes of health and well-being between early and
late life.