Janet Morgan Riggs

Janet Morgan Riggs was appointed provost of Gettysburg College in 2007.  She had been the interim provost in 1995/1996, and again in 2006/2007.  She also served as the executive assistant to the president from 1991 to 1994.

Riggs graduated from Gettysburg College with a B.A. in psychology and mathematics in 1977, summa cum laude, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton University.  She returned to the College in 1981 as an instructor in the psychology department, where she was promoted through the ranks to professor and served as department chairperson.  

Riggs is the recipient of the Gettysburg College Student Senate Faculty Appreciation Award, the Thompson Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the Woman of Distinction Award presented by the women students of Gettysburg College.

She has taught courses in experimental methods, social psychology, and general psychology.  Her research interests are in the areas of expectancy confirmation, gender role stereotypes, and attributions for behavior.  She is currently a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and serves as consulting editor for Psychology of Women Quarterly.