Question: Marilee Lindemann received her Ph.D. from an American public research university, that is the largest institution for higher education in what state?
Context: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ( ), commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey. Marilee Lindemann is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Director of the LGBT Studies Program.  Dr. Lindemann received her Ph.D in English from Rutgers University and her B.A. in English and Journalism from Indiana University.  She has taught at the University of Maryland since 1992.  She is a prominent scholar of American writer Willa Cather, a well-known blogger, and the editor of a forthcoming scholarly collection engaging with the phenomenon of blogs.  She was the 2007 winner of the Modern Language Association's Michael Lynch Service Award.  Dr. Lindemann served on the Editorial Board of "American Literature" from 2001–03; on the Board of Managing Editors of "American Quarterly" from 2001-3; and has served on the Advisory Board of the Cather Archive since 2006.  She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Graduate Study Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fellowship (1990, predoctoral) and a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Research Grant in Women's Studies (1988, predoctoral).  A native of Indiana, she lives with her partner of 26 years, Martha Nell Smith, in Takoma Park, Maryland. The President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (informally called Rutgers University) is the chief administrator of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.  Rutgers was founded by clergymen affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church in 1766 as "Queen's College" and was the eighth-oldest of nine colleges established during the American colonial period.  Before 1956, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college and became a full university in 1924 with the offering of graduate degree programs and the establishment of professional schools. Today, Rutgers is a public research university with three campuses in the state located in New Brunswick and Piscataway, Newark, and Camden.  The state's flagship university with approximately 65,000 students and employing 20,000 faculty and staff members, Rutgers is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey. The College of William & Mary in Virginia (also known as William & Mary, or W&M) is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.  Royally founded in 1693 by letters patent issued by King William III and Queen Mary II, it is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the United States after Harvard University.  William and Mary is the oldest college in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the oldest institution of higher education in the American South.  In his 1985 book "Public Ivies: A Guide to America's Best Public Undergraduate Colleges and Universities", Richard Moll categorized William & Mary as one of eight "Public Ivies". Higher education in Pakistan is the systematic process of students continuing their education beyond secondary school, learned societies, and two-year colleges.  The governance of higher education is maintained under the Higher Education Commission (HEC) which oversees the financial funding, research outputs, and teaching quality in the country.  In Pakistan, the higher education system includes the public, private, military, and vocational universities, all accredited by the HEC.  Since independence, new universities have expanded throughout the country with support provided by the University Grants Commission (UGC), which had been an autonomous institution of recognizing universities until 2002 when it was preceded by the HEC.  Pakistan produces about 445,000 university graduates and 10,000 computer science graduates annually.  A number of institutions of higher learning are active in the country, but the HEC recognizes 183 institutions.  This article provides a comprehensive list of higher education institutions active in Pakistan. Pikes Peak Community College is a community college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States.  It is the largest institution of higher education in the Pikes Peak region.  PPCC offers more than 150 programs in liberal arts and sciences transfer and career technical education.  The college's 60+60 Bachelor's Degree Transfer Program guarantees transfer of the PPCC Associate of Arts or Associate of Science degrees to any public institution of higher education in Colorado.  Students take two years of study at PPCC, then transfer as a junior to the four-year college or university of their choice.  In addition to transfer programs, the college offers a broad range of degrees and certificates in Allied Health, High Tech, Business, and Career Tech areas. The Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences is a public state higher education research institution in the area of biotechnical sciences.  The main task of this institution is to enable the graduated students with knowledge and skills for individual managing of small family business in the area of biotechnology.  This Faculty is the only one of its kind in the country and has characteristic study programs.  Starting for the year 1999/2000 by virtue of the Decision of the Ministry of Education (ref.  12-2920/2-1999), the Higher Agricultural School had grown into a Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences.  Within the ten years of functioning, the Faculty has educated many engineers (bachelor) and masters who are included in the food production industry.  Formally, the Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences is a higher level of the Higher Agricultural School dating back from 1960.  The launching of such higher educational institution signified filling a gap of many decades in the higher education system of biotechnical sciences and educating staff for the food production capacities.  The higher education activities of the Faculty of Biotechnical Sciences are organized on different levels of higher education: graduate studies, postgraduate studies and acquiring level of doctor of science, as well as many fundamental, developmental and applicative researches, conducting complex research projects of wider interest for the environment, courses, seminars, workshop for the staff and the students.  The graduate studies of the three study programs (animal food processing, management in bio-technique and farm production) are realized in accordance with the ECTS system and adjustment of the study programs with the legal regulations.  The teaching activities of these study programs are organized in eight semesters (four years) for the first two and six semesters (three years) for the last study program.  Teaching is realized as: lectures, tutorials – seminars, seminar papers and obligative practical training.  Postgraduate studies are realized as: lectures, exams and other form of teaching activities.  After preparation and defending of the master thesis, the postgraduate students acquire the title of Master of Biotechnical Sciences.  The title Doctor of Biotechnical Sciences is acquired after completing doctoral studies and defending doctoral dissertation or only by defending the doctoral dissertation. The University of Iceland (Icelandic: "Háskóli Íslands" ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education.  Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern comprehensive university, providing instruction for about 14,000 students in twenty-five faculties.  Teaching and research is conducted in social sciences, humanities, medicine, natural sciences, engineering and teacher education.  It has a campus concentrated around "Suðurgata" street in central Reykjavík, with additional facilities located in nearby areas as well as in the countryside. The University of the Philippines Open University (also referred to as UPOU, UP Open University, or UP OpenU) is a public research university and distance learning institution headquartered in the town of Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines.  It was established on February 23, 1995 as the fifth constituent university of the University of the Philippines System.  Its mandate is to provide education opportunities to individuals aspiring for higher education and improved qualifications but were unable to take advantage of traditional modes of education because of personal and professional obligations.  It is mandated by Republic Act No. 10650, also known as the Open and Distance Learning Act of 2014 to assist the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on their open distance learning functions. Georgia State University (commonly referred to as Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a public research university in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.  Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities.  It is also the largest institution of higher education in the University System of Georgia, with a total student population of approximately 51,000, including 32,082 graduate and undergraduate students in the downtown campus as of 2015.
Answer: New Jersey