Laura Truxler

Dr. Laura Truxler is an adjunct of the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute as well as the MA in Women, Gender, Spirituality and Social Justice and Doctor of Women’s Spirituality Programs at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. A scholar, mother, and grassroots educational organizer, Laura has been teaching at the critical and creative intersections of philosophy, gender, spirituality, religion, and social justice for over fifteen years. At the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA she earned a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies with an emphasis on Global Intersections: Women, Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality. In 2012, she received her PhD in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Women’s Spirituality from CIIS, writing a dissertation on Priestesses of the Goddess: Prophecy, Poetry, Midwifery, and Healing Among Early Mormon Women, A Feminist Cultural Herstory of the Gunn, Morley, Cox, and Tuttle Women (1823-1915). Laura has served as a professor and program director of Integrated Studies Across Cultures at Holy Names University in Oakland, CA from 2007 until the institution closed in May 2023. Her current areas of research interest are feminist and cultural herstories, transnational women’s history, and narratives of resistance and healing.