Useful Links

Want to learn more about Dr. Verta Taylor?? Here are some links that could be useful with regards to her:

http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/taylor.htm
This is her homepage for the sociology department at UCSB. It contains all her contact information, her curriculum vitae, a bit about her and her life, her key publications and what she is currently teaching.

http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1780
"UCSB Press Release: UCSB Sociologist Receives Career Achievement Award" This is an article that was published about Dr. Taylor after she recieved the McCarthy Award. It has information about the award, and other tidbits of information about her accomplishments.

http://books.google.com/books?id=FsGxTL0gtZUC&dq=dr+verta+taylor&printsec=frontcover&source=in&hl=en&ei=m-DnSceqDIKItgfP4LGdBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=11
Want to know more about Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret?? This is a link to Google Books, which gives a preview of the book. You can read the preface and some of the first chapter, as well as some pieces from other chapters. Check it out!

http://www.independent.com/news/2007/apr/19/l-lesbian/
An interview with Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp from the Santa Barbara Independent publications. Talks about a lot of different experiences from being a lesbian in the field, to the Drag Show Taylor brought to her Soc 1 Class!

http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a=7567
Article written by one of Taylor's students about the drag show brought to class. Very funny and insightful!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWR9K9HvNzQ
Hopefully Verta won't be upset about this! But this is a link to a youtube video where Verta sings a song at what looks like the McCarthy Award Event!