Portrait of Dr. Nicole Taylor

Dr. Nicole Taylor

  • Associate Professor at Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2024

  • Taylor, N., & Nichter, M. (2024). “I Love My Body, but Hers is Better!” Body Positivity and Social Media among College Women. Emerging Adulthood, 13(2), 308–321.
  • Taylor, N., & VandenBroek, A. K. (2024). Penciling: An Anonymization Method for Social Media Images. Field Methods, 37(2), 172–178. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X241259941

2023

  • Taylor, N., Valencia, L. D., VandenBroek, A. K., Stinnett, A., & Allen, A. (2023). Ethics and Images in Social Media Research. First Monday, 28(4). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v28i4.12680

2022

  • Taylor, N., & Nichter, M. (2022). A Filtered Life: Social Media on a College Campus. New York: Routledge.

2019

  • Morey, T., & Taylor, N. (2019). Understanding How Undergraduate Students Experience and Manage Stress: Implications for Teaching and Learning Anthropology. Teaching & Learning Anthropology, 2(2), 41–61.
  • Tamir, O., & Taylor, N. (2019). Nontraditional Students: Understanding and Meeting their Needs in the Anthropology Classroom. Teaching & Learning Anthropology, 2(2), 25–40.
  • Taylor, N., & Tamir, O. (Eds.). (2019). Diverse Student Experiences in Higher Education: Implications for the Anthropology Classroom. Teaching & Learning Anthropology (2nd ed., Vol. 2).

2017

  • Taylor, N. (2017). Fat is a Linguistic Issue: Discursive Negotation of Power, Identity, and the Gendered Body among Youth. In E. Anderson-Fye & A. Brewis Slade (Eds.), Fat Planet: Obesity, Culture, and Symbolic Body Capital (pp. 125–147). Santa Fe, NM; Albuquerque, NM: SAR Press; University of New Mexico Press.
  • Taylor, N., & Nichter, M. (2017). Body Image: Supporting Healthy Behaviors on College Campuses. In D. S. Anderson (Ed.), Further Wellness Issues for Higher Education: How to Promote Student Health During and After College (pp. 19–37). New York: Routledge.
  • Taylor, N., & Nichter, M. (2017). Studying Body Image and Food Consumption Practices. In J. A. Brett & J. Chrzan (Eds.), Research Methods in the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (pp. 58–69). Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books.
  • Taylor, N. (2017). Review of Fat-Talk Nation. American Ethnologist.

2016

  • Taylor, N. (2016). Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity (Innovative Ethnographies Series). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://innovativeethnographies.net/schooledonfat

2012

  • Merrill, M., Taylor, N., Martin, A., Maxim, L., D’Ambrosio, R., Gabriel, R., … Wells, M. (2012). A Mixed-Method Exploration of Functioning in Safe Schools/Healthy Students Partnerships. Evaluation and Program Planning, 35(2), 280–286.

2011

  • Nichter, M., & Taylor, N. (2011). Dieting. In D. Southerton (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture (Vol. 1, pp. 451–453). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
  • Taylor, N. (2011). Negotiating Popular Obesity Discourses in Adolescence: School Food, Personal Responsibility, and Gendered Food Consumption Behaviors. Food, Culture & Society, 14(4), 587–606.
  • Taylor, N. (2011). “Guys, She’s Humongous!”: Gender and Weight-Based Teasing in Adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Research, 26(2), 178–199.
  • Taylor, N. (2011). Gaining Perspective on Obesity. Current Anthropology.

2006

  • Nichter, M., Nichter, M., Lloyd-Richardson, E., Flaherty, B., Carkoglu, A., & Taylor, N. (2006). Gendered Dimensions of Smoking among College Students. Journal of Adolescent Research, 21(3), 215–243.

2005

  • Taylor, N., & Mendoza-Denton, N. (2005). Language and Culture. In M. J. Ball (Ed.), Clinical Sociolinguistics (pp. 74–86). Malden, MA: Blackwell.