Victoria Pitts-Taylor
Professor of Sociology, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center
Victoria Pitts-Taylor is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. At the Graduate Center, she is also Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society and Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Doctoral Certificate Program. She is author of two books, In the Flesh: the Cultural Politics of Body Modification and Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture, as well as Editor of The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body. She is currently the Chair of the Section on the Body and Embodiment of the American Sociological Association. Her current projects include a book for the Routledge Series Intergrating Science and Culture, on brain science in everyday life.
