| Gaye Tuchman is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her main areas of interest are the sociologies of culture (including the news media), gender, and higher education. Her books include Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality and Edging Women Out: Victorian Novelists, Culture and Social Change. She is currently completing an ethnography describing changes in higher education. Its tentative title is Transforming Wannabe University. Professor Tuchman has also studied women and gender in the twentieth-century mass media and (with Harry Levine) the construction of ethnic good patterns. Professor Tuchman has served as president of the Eastern Sociological Society, vice-president of Sociologists for Women in Society (she was one of 18 co-founders), and as a member of the council of the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study for Social Problems.
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