Huntington, Gertrude Enders.

Gertrude E. Huntington was born in Wooster, Ohio. She received a bachelor's degree in zoology in 1946 from Swarthmore College. From 1948 to 1950, Huntington served as chairwoman of the Biology Department at the Amerikan Kiz Koleji in Istanbul, Turkey. She received a master's degree in Conservation of Natural Resources in 1952 from Yale University. She also completed undergraduate coursework in botany and zoology at Oberlin College and graduate coursework in genetics from Rochester University. Research for her 1957 doctoral degree from Yale University in social science included living within Amish communities with her young daughter. Huntington was later a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Michigan in anthropology and environmental studies, where her husband served on the faculty. Additionally, she functioned as field anthropologist in several projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Health, the Department of Education and others. For many years she collaborated with John Hostettler, a noted rural sociologist and authority on anabaptism, co-authoring The Hutterites in North America (1967, 1980) and Children in Amish Society: Socialization and Community Education (1971), as well as numerous other publications.