Victoria Pitts-Taylor (née Pitts)^[1] is Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, Connecticut,^[2] and also Professor of Science in Society and Sociology there. She was formerly a professor of sociology at Queens College^[3] and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York,^[4] and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York.^[5] Pitts-Taylor is also former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly.^[6] She has won the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the section on Science, Knowledge and Technology of the American Sociological Association,^[7] and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.^[8]

Education

Pitts-Taylor gained her PhD in Sociology in 1999 from Brandeis University.^[1]

Publications

• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2003). In the flesh: the cultural politics of body modification. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312293116.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2007). Surgery junkies: wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813541624.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2008). The cultural encyclopedia of the body, Vol. I and 2. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0313341458.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria, ed. (2016). Mattering: feminism, science and materialism. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9781479845439.
• Pitts-Taylor, Victoria (2016). The brain's body: neuroscience and corporeal politics. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822361268.