Laura Skandera Trombley
Laura Skandera Trombley | |
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| 16th President of Southwestern University | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Edward Burger Dale T. Knobel (interim) |
| 10th President of University of Bridgeport | |
| In office July 1, 2018 – April 2, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Neil Albert Salonen |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Healey (interim) |
| 8th President of the Huntington Library | |
| In office July 1, 2015 – March 28, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Steven S. Koblik |
| Succeeded by | Steve Hindle (acting) Karen R. Lawrence |
| 5th President of Pitzer College | |
| In office July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Marilyn Chapin Massey |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Poon (interim) Melvin L. Oliver |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Laura Elise Skandera |
| Nationality | American |
| Website | lauratrombley |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The charmed circle: Mark Twain, women and the integration of imagination (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jay Martin |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English Literature |
| Institutions | |
Laura Skandera Trombley is an American academic administrator and scholar of Mark Twain. She is the Chair Emerita of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and was the fifth President of Pitzer College in Claremont, California, and the eighth President of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. In March 2018, she was named as the tenth president of University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On April 2, 2020, Skandera Trombley was named the 16th president of Southwestern University.