Taylor Paige Winfield
- Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Biography
Taylor Paige Winfield is an assistant professor in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her research and teaching interests include law and society, criminology, organizational and cultural sociology, and social inequality.
Dr. Winfield’s research examines how organizations use strict and comprehensive internal rules to shape behavior. With a focus on gender, race, and class, she traces how individuals from diverse backgrounds navigate these strictures and push organizations to change. Her upcoming book, Becoming a Soldier: How Institutions Shape Bodies and Bodies Shape Institutions, addresses this topic through three years of immersive ethnography and over 100 interviews with new soldiers in the U.S. Army. She recently completed an 18-month ethnography in a South African women’s correctional facility in order to compare across organizations with different purposes and rationales for control, as well as in countries with distinct racial and gendered regimes. As a feminist scholar and community-engaged researcher, Dr. Winfield has over a decade of experience conducting immersive, longitudinal studies in global settings with restricted access. Her work has been published in Sociological Theory, Theory & Society, Ethnography, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Fulbright Program, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2022.
Degrees
- Ph.D. Sociology
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Inscribing Identities on Uniformed Bodies
Awards
- Vertically Integrated Projects (VIP) Program Catalyst Seed Fund Award
- University of Arizona, Fall 2025
- U.S. Student Program
- U.S. Fulbright Program, Spring 2023
- Graduate Paper Award
- American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of the Body and Embodiment, Summer 2022
- Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Summer 2022
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award
- National Science Foundation, Spring 2019
- Graduate Student Prize
- American Sociological Association History of Sociology and Social Thought Section, Summer 2017
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Science Foundation, Spring 2017
Interests
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Courses
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Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Winfield Haboucha, T. P. (2022).
Mandates and Preparation for Chaplains
. In Introduction to Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care. University of North Carolina Press. - Winfield, T. P. (2022).
Vulnerable Sociology: Unpacking ‘Vulnerabilities’ andDeveloping Skills for Justice and Trauma-Informed Research
. In Reading Sociology: Decolonizing Canada.
Journals/Publications
- Winfield, T. P. (2024). All-encompassing ethnographies: Strategies for feminist and equity-oriented institutional research. Ethnography.
- Paige, T. (2022). Interpellative Styles: Choreographies of Identity Disruptions and Repairs. Sociological Theory.
- Paige, T. (2022). The social significance of chaplains: evidence from a national survey. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy.
- Paige, T. (2021). Assessing Student Engagement With Campus Chaplains: A Pilot Study From a Residential Liberal Arts College. Journal of College and Character.
- Paige, T. (2021). Embodied Theodicy: From Conceptual to Bodily Engagements with Suffering. Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
- Paige, T. (2021). Uncovering the Origins of a Sociologist’s Thoughts: A Methodology to Identify and Analyze Thought-Models. The American Sociologist.
- Paige, T. (2020). Rereading Durkheim in light of Jewish law: how a traditional rabbinic thought-model shapes his scholarship. Theory and Society.
- Winfield, T. (2019). A Different Kind of Gap Year: Program Development and Assessment at the United States Service Academy Preparatory Schools. Journal of Character and Leadership Development.
Others
- Mbonambi, N., Winfield, T. P., & Mahmoudi, A. (2025, August).
Women in Conflict (with the Law)-Policy Report
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