LANCASTER, Pa. - "Beyond the Feminist Mystique: Women, Men, Work, and the Next Mass Movement" will be the topic of a talk by Rutgers University professor Mary S. Hartman on Monday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in Franklin & Marshall Stahr Auditorium, Stager Hall. The talk, sponsored by the college's Center for Liberal Arts and Society, is free and open to the public. Hartman is university professor and director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership, a consortium of six units based on the Douglass campus. She has been at Rutgers since 1968, when she was hired as an instructor in history. She was tenured in 1975, continuing to teach European political and social history and women’s history on the graduate and undergraduate levels. From the early seventies, she joined in creating one of the nation’s first Women’s Studies programs at Douglass, and in 1973 co-organized the first Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, which has since become the largest inter-disciplinary forum for scholarship in the field. In the seventies she published several papers in French political history, co-edited one of the first women’s history collections Clio’s Consciousness Raised (Harper & Row, 1974), and published Victorian Murderesses (1977), which was a selection of the Literary Guild book club and later appeared in a Pocket Books edition. In 1982, after a year as acting dean of Douglass College, Hartman was appointed dean of the college, serving until December 1994. In that capacity she launched several new programs, including the New Jersey Women of Achievement (with the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs), the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women’s Studies, the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science and Engineering, the Bunting-Cobb Math and Science Residence Hall, the “Global Village”—relocating the college’s language and cultural houses together and creating an international certificate program, the Shaping a Life mission course, and the Institute for Women’s Leadership consortium. She also initiated and led the 75th Anniversary Campaign for Douglass, raising nearly $11 million for the college’s priority needs. During her tenure, Hartman was appointed by both Governors Kean and Florio to serve on the New Jersey State Advisory Commission on the Status of Women and by Governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman to co-chair the Higher Education Task Force and later to chair the Advisory Panel on Higher Education Restructuring. In 1990, she was elected by fellow Rutgers deans to serve on the Presidential search committee. During her tenure as dean, she also served on the Board of the Eagleton Institute, on the editorial board of the Rutgers Press, on the Advisory Board of the state-funded New Jersey Gender Integration Project, and as a trustee of the New Brunswick Chamber of Commerce, the Rutgers Preparatory School, the Advisory Council of PSE&G Research Corporation, and the New Brunswick Savings Bank. Since 1995, as director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership, Hartman has overseen the development of the consortium in its new headquarters. Activities have included the creation of the Leadership Scholars Certificate Program for undergraduates, editing and introducing the Institute’s signature publication Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women (Rutgers University Press, 1999), teaching and lecturing widely inside and beyond Rutgers, and writing a book-length manuscript The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past, (Cambridge University Press: New York, 2004). She has also helped raise funds for IWL activities, including a recent half-million dollar challenge grant from the Ford Foundation. She serves on the board of the Peddie School in Hightstown and the National Council for Research on Women in New York, a consortium of 95 members nation-wide. Hartman has received numerous awards and an honorary degree from Centenary College.
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