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Verta Taylor is Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Taylor came to UCSB from Ohio State University in 2002. Her areas of research are social movements, gender, and sexuality. She has been the recipient of numerous teaching and mentoring awards, including Ohio State University’s Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award and Sociologist for Women in Society’s Mentoring Award. Taylor is author or coauthor of 15 books and edited volumes and over 100 articles. Her scholarship has been recognized by several national awards, including the American Sociological Association’s Jessie Bernard Award (the highest career achievement award in sex and gender), the John D. McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior, the Simon and Gagnon Award for her lifetime of scholarship on sexuality, and Sociologist for Women and Society’s Feminist Lectureship. She is coauthor with Leila J. Rupp of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (University of Chicago Press), which won the 2005 book award from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association, and Survival in the Doldrums : The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (Oxford University Press) which won a 1990 book award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Association; author of Rock-a-by Baby: Feminism, Self-Help and Postpartum Depression (Routledge); and co-editor of eight editions of Feminist Frontiers (McGraw-Hill). Her articles on the women’s movement, the gay and lesbian movement, social movement theory, feminist research methods, drag queens, and same sex marriage have appeared in journals such as The American Sociological Review, Signs, Social Problems, Mobilization, Gender & Society, Sexualities, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Women’s History, and Journal of Homosexuality. Taylor has served on more than a dozen editorial boards, including as Deputy Editor of the American Sociological Review, and she has chaired three sections of the American Sociological Association: Sex and Gender, Collective Behavior and Social Movements, and Sexualities. Her current research focuses on the same-sex marriage movement, the cultural outcomes of the gay and lesbian movement, and queer identity among college age women.