Thursday, February 12, 2009

Goals

Despite Dr. Taylor's very busy schedule, she still has a lot of different projects she is working on and hoping to finish:
  • She is, of course, the current Chair for the Department of Sociology at UCSB, which takes up a lot of her time but she seems very happy with this position.
  • She is currently working on a publication about the same-sex marriages of 2004. She already has a lot of interviews with people who got married at the time as a form of protest. She is looking to explore how same-sex marriages can be seen as a social protest.
  • She is also working on a co-edited book on same-sex marriage.
  • Alongside Leila Rupp and Paula England, Taylor is working on a publication about "girls kissing girls in public"with the ultimate goal of exploring queer identities among college aged girls, and the fluidity of sexual identity on college campuses.
  • Ultimately she hopes to publish her own book with her own social theories on social movements and social identities. She has a lot on her plate right now, however, so it may take a while for her to get this one out she says.

Resources provided from a phone interview between Dr. Verta Taylor and myself.

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