Professor of sociology
Verta Ann Taylor (born 1948) is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with focuses on gender, sexuality, social movements, and women's health.
Education and career.
Taylor earned a degree in social work from Indiana State University in 1970, and then went to Ohio State University for graduate study in sociology, earning a master's degree in 1971 and completing her Ph.D. there in 1976.
She continued at Ohio State University as an assistant professor of sociology, affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, which she directed in 1977–1978, and with the Center for Women's Studies, for which she was acting director in 1984–1985. She was promoted to full professor at Ohio State in 1997. In 2002 she moved to the department of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, also affiliated with the Feminist Studies Program there. She chaired the sociology department from 2005 to 2012. In 2012, she added an affiliation as a research associate of the Broom Center for Demography.
Publications.
Taylor has authored books including:
Her edited volumes include:
Other highly-cited publications of Taylor include:
Recognition.
Taylor's book "Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret" won the distinguished book award of the Sex and Gender Section of the American Sociological Association in 2005.
She was given the Simon and Gagnon Award for Lifetime of Scholarly Contributions to the Study of Sexuality in 2008, the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in Social Movements in 2008, and the Jessie Bernard Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Study of Women in 2011.
Personal life.
An out lesbian, Taylor's wife is Leila J. Rupp, with whom she coauthored several works.
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