Chair of the VCU Women’s Studies Program and Professor in the VCU Department of Sociology and Anthropology (in  the Wilder School), Dr. Scully received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1976), and her research on rape, violence, and the medicalization of women’s health has earned her both local and national recognition. She participated in the U.S. Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography (1985-86), and received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Southeastern Women’s Studies Association (1998). She has written dozens of books, reports, and peer reviewed articles, including: Men Who Control Women’s Health (NY: Teacher’s College press, 1994 re-issue), “Attitudes towards Women, Violence, and Rape: A Comparison of Rapists and Other Felons (with Joseph Marolla, in Deviant Behavior [1986]), and “The Medicalization of Birth: From Natural to Surgical Event” (in The American Way of Birth [1986]).

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