VERTA TAYLOR is Professor of Sociology. She teaches courses on gender, qualitative research methods, and social movements. She joined the University of California, Santa Barbara, faculty in the fall of 2002.
Professor Taylor previously taught in Sociology and Women's Studies at The Ohio Shate University. She won numerous teaching awards at Ohio State, including a University Distinguished Teaching Award, a Multicultural teaching award, and an Outstanding Faculty Award from the Office of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Services.
Verta Taylor also received the Sociologists for Women in Society's Mentoring Award and served as Feminist Lecturer for Sociologists for Women in Society. In addition, she has served as chair of the Section on Sex and Gender, the Section on Social Movements, and the Committee on the Status of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Sociologists of the American Sociological Association.
She has written and co-authored many different books, and her writings have appeared in numerous scholarly collections and in journals such as Signs, Gender & Society, The American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Mobilization, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Her current research focuses on the women's movement and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender movement. Her most recent book, co-authored with Leila J. Rupp, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, looks at drag performance as a collective action repertoire of the gay and lesbian movement.
