CORA BAGLEY MARRETT (1942– ) is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, where she has held tenure since 1974. Her masters and Ph.D. degrees were earned at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. From 1992 to 1996 she was assistant director for social, behavioral, and economic sciences at the National Science Foundation. She was also appointed to the Board of Governors of the Argonne National Laboratory to serve from 1996 to 1998 and is a member of a peer-review oversight group for the National Institutes of Health serving from 1996 to 1998.