Taylor Hargrove
Taylor Hargrove is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow and doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. She is interested in the joint consequences of social statuses and factors on health inequality across the life course. Her program of research takes both a between- and within-group approach to address questions regarding the extent to which structures of inequality (e.g., race/ethnicity, skin color, gender, and social class) combine to shape health trajectories in adulthood; the role of race-based and general stressors in creating and maintaining health disparities; and sources of within-group heterogeneity in mechanisms leading to health inequality, particularly among African Americans.
She is currently engaged in research that explores how the intersections of various systems of stratification shape health inequality between early adulthood and later life. For example, her dissertation, titled Different Shades of Health: Understanding How Race, Skin Color, Gender, and Class Intersect to Shape Health across the Life Course, examines the extent to which racial/ethnic and skin color inequality in health is gendered and/or classed across adulthood among whites, African Americans, and Latinos. She successfully defended her dissertation proposal in August 2015. Taylor is also working on projects that investigate the role of psychosocial factors, including discrimination, chronic stress, neighborhood context, and racial identity, in shaping health and well-being among various social groups. Her future projects will aim to better understanding the dynamic impact of colorism on health within African American and Latino populations across different time periods and social spaces. She also plans to investigate the extent to which nativity, ethnicity, psychosocial factors, and socioeconomic status contribute to health inequality in general, and the relationship between skin color and health, in particular.
Representative Publications
Taylor W. Hargrove and Tyson H. Brown. 2015. “A Life Course Approach to Inequality: Examining Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship between Early Life Conditions and Health in Later Life Among Men.” Ethnicity & Disease 25(3):313-320.
Brown, Tyson H., Taylor W. Hargrove and Derek M. Griffith. 2015 (forthcoming). “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Men’s Health: Examining Psychosocial Mechanisms.” Journal of Family and Community Health 38(4):307-318.
Brown, Tyson H., Liana J. Richardson, Taylor W. Hargrove and Courtney S. Thomas. (forthcoming). “Using Multiple-Hierarchy Stratification Approaches to Understand Health Inequalities: The Intersecting Consequences of Race, Gender, SES and Age.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Brown, Tyson H., and Taylor W. Hargrove. 2013. “Multidimensional Approaches to Examining Gender and Racial/Ethnic Stratification in Health.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 1(2):180-206.