Marigold Linton

Born: 1963 Born on the Morongo Reservation of Southern California

Died: Still living

Education

Attended the University of California at Riverside succeeding in science
1958 Majored in experimental psychology and received her Bachelor of Arts degree
1958-1960 Did graduate work in experimental psychology at the University of Iowa
1964 Earned her PhD in experimental psychology from the University of California in Los Angeles

First California reservation Indian to attend a university
Worked on an adolescent suicide prevention project
Began as part-time counselor and part-time psychology teacher at San Diego State University
Became full-time in the psychology department and earned another first by convincing the department to place everyone who met criteria on the tenure track, including women
Rose to full professor
1970 founded, with others, the National Indian Education Association
1972 Focused her cognitive psychology research and publication on long-term memory, in particular, autobiographical memory
1973 Launched, with others, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
1974 recruited by the University of Utah and was the first female full professor at Utah
Used herself as the subject for her first memory research 1986 switched her career focus and headed to Arizona State University and directed several programs such as Director of Educational Services for the College of Education and Director of American Indian Programs
1998 Moved to the University of Kansas and accepted the position as Director of American Indian Outreach Built a broad partnership with nearby Haskell Indian Nations University Grant writing raised more than $12 million toward the partnership
Served as the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science President Co-authored The Practical Statistician: Simplified Handbook of Statistics

1993 & 1995 The Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science honored her with their Service Award and their Founders Medal

Eisman, E., Linton, M., & Theios, J. (1960, August). The relationship between response strength and one parameter of the hunger drive. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 53(4), 359-363.
Linton, M., Jewett, M., & Brotsky, S. (1970, December). Prediction of paired-associate learning from a complex indicator of associative strength. Psychonomic Science, 21(6), 354-355
Andress, V., Franzini, L., & Linton, M. (1974, April). A comparison of homosexual and heterosexual responses to the Menninger Word Association Test. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 30(2), 205-207.
Linton, M. (1986). Ways of searching and the contents of memory. Autobiographical memory (pp. 50-67). New York, NY US: Cambridge University Press.
Guenther, R., & Linton, M. (1975, March). Mechanisms of temporal coding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 1(2), 182-187.
Linton, M. (1988). The maintenance of knowledge: Some long-term specific and generic changes. Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues, Vol. 1: Memory in everyday life (pp. 378-384). Oxford England: John Wiley & Sons.
Linton, M. (1996). The maintenance of a complex knowledge base after seventeen years. The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory, Vol. 35 (pp. 127-163). San Diego, CA US: Academic Press.