Mary Frank Fox is an ADVANCE Professor
in the School of Public
Policy, and co-director of the Center
for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology, at Georgia Institute
of Technology.
She received her Ph.D. in Sociology (1978) at The University of Michigan.
Her research focuses upon gender, science, and academia. Her research has
introduced and established ways in which the participation and performance
of women and men reflect and are affected by social and organizational features
of science and academia. She has addressed these complex processes in a range
of research encompassing education and educational programs, collaborative
practices, salary rewards, publication productivity, social attributions and
expectations, and academic careers. Her publications appear in over 50 different
scholarly and scientific journals, books, and collections
Her current research projects include a Study of Programs for Women in Science
and Engineering, supported by NSF; the research component for the NSF
ADVANCE Institutional Transformation award to Georgia Tech for which she
is Co-PI; and a study of faculty careers in computing, supported by NSF through
the National Center for Women and Information Technology; and the Women's International
Engineering Research Summit (WIRES), supported by NSF, for which she is Co-PI
and co-director of Research.
She is member of the editorial advisory boards of Social Studies of Science, and Sex Roles: Journal of Research.
Among her appointments and offices are: Member of Social Science Advisory,
National Center for Women and Information Technology; Consultant for Study of Gender
Differences in Science and Engineering, National Research Council/National Academy of
Sciences; Member of the NSF Science and Human Resources Expert Committee; Advisory
Review Panel for NSF Workshop on Using Human Resource Data; and past president,
Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS).
She was awarded the SWS Feminist Lecturer 2000 (for "prominent feminist
scholar who has made a commitment to social change"), and the 2002 WEPAN
(Women in Engineering Programs) Betty Vetter Research Award (for "notable
achievement in research on women in engineering"). In 2006, she was awarded the
Outstanding Faculty Member/Woman of Distinction award, Georgia Institute of Technology.