Victoria Pitts-Taylor

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| birth_name = Victoria Leigh Pitts

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| alma_mater = Brandeis University

| thesis_title = Body strategies: signifying the body in subculture

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| thesis_year = 1999

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| main_interests = Sociology, women's studies

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Victoria Pitts-Taylor (née Pitts){{cite thesis|degree= Ph.D | last = Pitts | first = Victoria L. |date=1999 | title = Body strategies: signifying the body in subculture |publisher= Brandeis University |oclc=42748009}} is a Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, as well as Professor of Science in Society and Sociology, at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.{{cite web | title = Victoria Pitts-Taylor | url = http://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/vpitts/profile.html | website = wesleyan.edu | publisher = Wesleyan University | access-date = 23 August 2017}} She previously taught sociology at Queens College{{cite web | title = Victoria Pitts-Taylor | url = http://cuny.is/vpitts | website = cuny.is | publisher = Queens College | access-date = 23 August 2017}} and the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York,{{cite web | title = Victoria Pitts-Taylor | url = https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/victoria-pitts-taylor | website = centerforthehumanities.org | publisher = Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY | access-date = 23 August 2017}} and was a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University, New York.{{cite web | title = Visiting fellows | url = http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/people/visiting-fellows | website = socialdifference.columbia.edu | publisher = Centre for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University | access-date = 23 August 2017}} Pitts-Taylor is also a former co-editor of the journal Women's Studies Quarterly.{{cite journal | last1 = Pitts-Taylor | first1 = Victoria | last2 = Schaffer | first2 = Talia | title = Editors' Note: Security, Safety, Safe | journal = Women's Studies Quarterly | volume = 39 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 9–12 | publisher = The Feminist Press | date = Spring–Summer 2011 | doi = 10.1353/wsq.2011.0017 | jstor = 41290271 }} She is the recipient of the Robert K. Merton Book Award from the Science, Knowledge and Technology section of the American Sociological Association,{{Cite news|url=http://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/sections/science-knowledge-and-technology|title=Science, Knowledge, and Technology|work=American Sociological Association|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en}} and the Feminist Philosophy of Science Prize from the Women's Caucus of the Philosophy of Science Association.{{Cite web|url=https://womenscaucus.philsci.org|title=Women's Caucus Home|last=Julien|first=Alec|website=womenscaucus.philsci.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-07-06}}