Dr. Taiye Winful
Dr. Taiye Winful
Education: 2018 – 2024: PhD Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
- Dissertation: The etiology of inflammatory responses: Exploring Biocultural Influences on Salivary C-Reactive Protein in African Diasporic Communities
- Advisor: Jada Benn Torres.
2018 – 2020: M.A Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
2016 – 2018: M.A Anthropology, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC,
- Thesis: Reconstructing Africa’s Evolutionary Histories: DNA Collection, Coding, Analysis, and Interpretation.
- Advisor: Jonathan Marks
2012 – 2016: B.S Molecular Biology, Minor in Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Research Interests: genetics, embodiment, health disparities, epigenetics, inflammation, social determinants of health, community engaged work, mixed methods approaches.
Taiye Winful is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her B.S. in Molecular Biology at Loyola University Chicago and went on to earn her M.A. in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She then completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University in 2024, where her dissertation work was funded by the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG-BA).