Cora Bagley Marrett
| Cora Bagley Marrett | |
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| Born | 1942 Kenbridge, Virginia |
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Virginia Union University (BA) University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD) |
| Occupation | Sociologist |
Virginia Union University (BA)
Cora Bagley Marrett (b. 1942) is an African American woman who is known for her work as a sociologist and for the National Science Foundation. From May 2011 until August 2014, Marrett served as the Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation.
Cora Bagley Marrett was born in 1942 in Kenbridge, Virginia. Her parents only had a sixth grade education and Marrett was the youngest of 12 children.
Marrett received her undergraduate degree from the historically black Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. In 1968, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a PhD in sociology.
Marrett's early academic appointments were at Western Michigan University and the University of North Carolina. Marrett was a tenured professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1974 to 1997. In 1997, Marrett moved to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst as Provost, Senior Vice Chancellor of Affairs, and a professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies, where she remained until 2001. In 2001, she returned to the University of Wisconsin System, where she served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs until 2007.
From 1992 through 1996, Marrett worked for the National Science Foundation as the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Studies. She was also the Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources. In May 2011, Marrett returned to the National Science Foundation as the Deputy Director, a post which she held until August 2014.
Marrett directed the United Negro College Fund/Andrew Mellon Programs from 1990 until 1992. In 1996 when she was called upon to sit on the Board of Governors of the Argonne National Laboratory while also being a member of a peer-review group for the National Institutes of Health, in which she remained until 1998. Other academic and governmental committees that she has served on include the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Congress.
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