Mary K. Trigg is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

. She is also the Director of Leadership Programs and Research at the Institute for Women's Leadership

Institute for Women's Leadership

The Institute for Women's Leadership, created by the eminent former dean of Douglass College Mary S. Hartman, is a "consortium of teaching, research, and public service units" operating in close association with Rutgers University, and more specifically Douglass Campus...

, where she directs the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program and various research initiatives at the Institute.
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Research

Dr. Mary Trigg's research interests include family and work, the history of American feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

, women's education and leadership development, and women's community organizations.

Writing

Dr. Trigg has published articles in American National Biography, Liberal Education, the Journal of Women’s History, Initiatives, Community, Work & Family, Transformations, among others. Trigg edited a collection of essays in 2010 called, Leading the Way: Young Women's Activism for Social Change published by Rutgers University Press.

Awards

• Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women’s Studies
• AAUW Education Foundation Grant
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant
• Bonner Foundation Grant

Education

- B.S. University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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- M.A. Carnegie-Mellon University

- M.A. American Civilization from Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

- Ph.D. American Civilization from Brown University