Interview with Mary S. Hartman (#2)

Mary S. Hartman is a university professor and director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership, a consortium of nine units based on the Douglass campus. She has been at Rutgers since 1968, when she was hired as an instructor in history. Her research interests include European political and social history and women’s history. In 1982, after a year as acting dean of Douglass College, Hartman was appointed dean of the college, serving until December 1994. She discusses several of the programs she launched, including the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering; the “Global Village” of language and cultural houses; and the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Hartman also reflects on the need to devise initiatives to support women in higher education and how this philosophy guided her endeavors at Douglass.Accompanied by transcrip