Featuring
Verta Taylor, Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara

Saturday, April 26
4 p.m.
Hesburgh Center Auditorium

Verta Taylor is the second recipient of the McCarthy Lifetime Achievement Award in the Scholarship of Social Movements & Collective Behavior, presented by the Center for the Study of Social Movements & Social Change.

Verta Taylor is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department and member of the Affiliated Faculty in Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was previously a faculty member in the Sociology Department at Ohio State University where she won numerous teaching awards, including a University Distinguished Teaching Award, a Multicultural teaching award, an Outstanding Faculty Award from the Office of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Services, and an Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award from the Sociology Department.

She is coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (University of Chicago Press) and Survival in the Doldrums : The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (Oxford University Press); 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 women’s movements, the gay and lesbian movement, and social movement theory have appeared in a wide range of journals.

Sponsored by
Center for the Study of Social Movements & Social Change
Department of Sociology
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

For more information on the Center for the Study Social Movements & Social Change, go to: http://www.nd.edu/~cssm

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