Anita Taylor papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll 511

Scope and Contents

The Anita Taylor papers document the academic work of Dr. Anita Taylor, professor emerita of communication and a member of the women and gender studies faculty at George Mason University. The collection contains material related to Taylor’s teaching, research, writing, and professional activities from 1950 to 2016. The collection includes teaching material, correspondence, research and writing files, drafts, articles, clippings, committee material, and conference material.

Dates

Creation: 1950-2016

Creator

Taylor, Anita, 1935- (Creator, Person)

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Biographical / Historical

Dr. Anita Taylor is professor emerita of communication and a member of the women and gender studies faculty at George Mason University.

Taylor was born during the dust bowl on a farm in southern Kansas. She earned a B.S. in sociology from Kansas State University in 1957, an M.S. in speech from Kansas State University in 1959, and a Ph.D. in public address and history from the University of Missouri in 1971.

Taylor coached debate, taught, or worked in administration at the university level for more than 45 years, 25 of which were at George Mason University, where she was the founding chair of the Communication Department. She retired from full-time teaching in 2004.

Widely known as a leader, writer, speaker, and workshop leader in communication, Taylor’s scholarship focuses on gender and language in communication, women as communicators, and speaking in public. Taylor is the author of many articles, books, speeches, and teaching and learning materials. Her first book, Communicating, was published in six editions. She edited several publications and served as executive editor of the self-supporting research periodical Women and Language from 1989 until 2010.

Active in several professional organizations, Taylor became president of the National Communication Association in 1981, where she had been one of the founders of its Women’s Caucus in 1971. In 1991, she received the Speech Communication Association’s first Francine Merritt award for her contributions to the improvement of the professional lives of women in the profession and the association. In 1996, she was named Communicator of the Year by the Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences. In 2000, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Communication Association. In 2002, she was selected as the inaugural Feminist Teacher/Mentor by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender.

Source:

George Mason University. (n.d.). Anita Taylor. https://communication.gmu.edu/people/ataylor

Extent

28 linear feet (20 containers) : 17 record storage boxes, 2 manuscript boxes, 1 flat box

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Dr. Anita Taylor is professor emerita of communication and a member of the women and gender studies faculty at George Mason University. The papers include teaching material, correspondence, research and writing files, drafts, articles, clippings, committee material, and conference material.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in its original order.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Anita Taylor, circa 2011-2016.

Physical Description

Box 1: Committee material, university documents, training materials, correspondence, publications, articles, clippings, research material, conference material.

Box 2: Committee material, university documents, correspondence, articles, teaching and student material, yearbooks, meeting minutes.

Box 3: University documents, teaching material, correspondence, reports, articles, notes, teaching evaluations, student material.

Box 4: Teaching material, student material, correspondence, articles, subject files.

Box 5: Teaching material, articles, teaching evaluations, conference material.

Box 6: Laminated Marlboro advertisements, Laminated Life Magazine special issue cover, Billboard Magazine: Talent Almanac.

Box 7: Textbooks, teaching material, articles, correspondence.

Box 8: Teaching material, committee material, conference material, correspondence.

Box 9: Teaching material, correspondence, subject files, committee material, conference material.

Box 10: Teaching material, subject files, articles.

Box 11: Teaching material, clippings.

Box 12: Correspondence, writing files, drafts, research material, articles, conference material.

Box 13: Correspondence, writing files, drafts, manuscripts, research material, articles, conference material and papers.

Box 14: Correspondence, writing files, drafts, manuscripts, research material, data, articles, conference material and papers, project proposals, teaching material.

Box 15: Correspondence, writing files, drafts, manuscripts, research material, data, articles, conference material and papers, project proposals, teaching material.

Box 16: Correspondence, writing files, drafts, notes, research material, articles, conference material and papers, teaching material.

Box 17: Correspondence, speeches, lecture notes and drafts, papers, cartoons, clippings.

Box 18: Articles, publications, speeches, correspondence, ephemera, drafts, notes, quotes, teaching material, employment records, student material, vitae.

Box 19: Day planners.

Box 20: Audio and video cassette tapes.