Taylor Hargrove

Taylor Hargrove is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina. Her research focuses on health disparities across the life course, emphasizing the intersectional impacts of race, skin color, gender, and socioeconomic status.

• Racial Disparities
• Colorism Studies
• Life Course Analysis
• Structural Racism
• Population Health

Recent publications examine structural racism in educational contexts, skin tone stratification in health outcomes, and socioeconomic trajectories affecting biological aging. Current projects like Health Disparities: Inflammatory Response, Immune Function, and Environmental (In)Congruence use biosocial panel data to analyze macro-level environmental impacts on health inequality. Her work has been published in journals such as Demography, Social Forces, and Journals of Gerontology.

Collaborative efforts include developing structural racism indices for the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and other biosocial research initiatives. Key associated research themes include population health across time, generational differences, and mobility-linked well-being variations.