Margaret Hermann
American political psychologist
Margaret G. "Peg" Hermann (born 1938) is an American political psychologist who was the long-time director of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
Early life and education
Hermann grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, where her father served as a professor of sociology and her mother taught biology and chemistry at a local high school. After completing her undergraduate studies at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1960. She subsequently obtained a master's degree and Ph.D. in psychology from Northwestern University, in 1963 and 1965, respectively. Hermann was a postdoctoral fellowship in the Personality Research Group at the Educational Testing Service. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Career
Hermann began her career as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and began working at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies affiliated with Ohio State University, where she remained through 1998. She secured $2 million from the National Science Foundation to launch a summer institute in political psychology.
In 1998, she took on the Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professorship of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs within Syracuse University. In 2000, she was named the director of what was then known as the Global Affairs Institute (GAI).
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