Director of Leadership Programs and Research

Mary K. Trigg is the Director of Leadership Programs and Research at the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University.   Her areas of expertise include the history of American feminism, women’s education and leadership development, work and family issues, and community organizations.  She directs the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program, a leadership education honors program for undergraduate women, sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Leadership and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies and has co-founded four additional leadership programs at Rutgers, including the IWL High School Leadership Certificate Program.  Trigg has taught at Brown University, as well as in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, where she is a member of the graduate faculty. She has directed several research projects,  been awarded a Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women’s Studies, an AAUW Education Foundation Grant, and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bonner Foundation.  Her publications include articles in Liberal Education, the Journal of Women’s History, Initiatives, Transformations, American National Biography, Community, Work & Family, among others.  She is currently at work on two book manuscripts, one of them on young women.  Dr. Trigg earned a B.S. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization from Brown University.