Laura Skandera Trombley
| Laura Skandera Trombley | |
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| Other names | Laura Elise Skandera |
| Residence | Southern California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | English Literature |
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Laura Skandera Trombley is the eighth president of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, and first woman president of the organization.
Born as Laura Elise Skandera to an elementary school principal and second-grade teacher, she enrolled in Pepperdine University at the age of 16 and earned a B.A. in English and graduated summa cum laude with a master's in English. From 1985 to 1988 she was a research associate in the American Studies department at the Universitaet Eichstaett in Germany. She received her PhD in English from the University of Southern California and during her studies received the Virginia Barbara Middleton Scholarship and English Graduate Student scholarship, as well as being the Lester and Irene Finkelstein Fellow. In 2002, Pepperdine recognized Skandera Trombley with the Distinguished Alumna Award and awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2013.
After the completion of her PhD, Skandera Trombley accepted a teaching position at the State University of New York in Potsdam where she earned tenure in three years as an associate professor of English. Skandera Trombley also served in other administrative roles at Potsdam including assistant provost. In 1997, she assumed the post of vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty, the first woman to hold that title, at Coe College, a private liberal arts college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was named President of Pitzer College at age 40.
Skandera Trombley assumed Presidency of The Huntington in July 2015. The Huntington is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and located in San Marino, California. The library houses 9 million manuscripts and over 400,000 rare books, among them one of 12 Gutenberg Bibles, Ben Franklin's Autobiography manuscript, Langston Hughes' papers, the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Henry David Thoreau's manuscript of Walden, and Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper manuscript. Under her tenure The Huntington is working to establish sustainability and water conservation efforts, and has signed an agreement with the University of California at Riverside to subsidize the hiring of two assistant professors who will do research full-time in The Huntington's collection of documents.
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