Mary Frank Fox | |
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| Title | Dean's Distinguished Professor |
| Awards | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 2017); Distinguished Research Award, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology (2017); Section Star Award, Section on Science, Knowledge, and Technology, American Sociological Association (2015); Betty Vetter Award for Research, Women in Engineering Pro-Active Network (2002); Feminist Lecturer Award, Sociologists for Women in Society (2000) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D. in Sociology, The University of Michigan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Sub-discipline | Gender, Science/Engineering, Education and Careers, Organizations, Science Policy |
| Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Main interests | The studies of gender, science, and engineering |
| Website | https://sites.gatech.edu/mffox |
Mary Frank Fox is Dean's Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a pioneer and leader in the study of women and men in academic and scientific occupations and organizations. Her work has introduced and established the ways that participation and performance in science reflect and are affected by complex social-organizational processes. Fox's research is published in over 60 different scholarly and scientific journals, books, and collections, including Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology, and Human Values, Sociology of Education, Annual Review of Sociology, and The Journal of Higher Education.