Pembroke Center History
Brown University founded the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women in 1981. Our name payes tribute to the women who fought for access to higher education and began undergraduate study in 1891 at the Women's College in Brown University -- renamed Pembroke College in 1928.
During the 2011-12 academic year, the Pembroke Center celebrated its30th anniversary with a scholarly conference, "Theory on the Move: Three Decades of Critical Feminist Thinking.". At this time, the Center published Notes on Pembroke Center's History: 1981-2011, by ElizabethWeed, founding associate director of the Pembroke Center, founding co-editory of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, and director of the Pembroke Center from 2000 to 2010.
Pembroke Center Directors
Joan Wallach Scott, 1981-1985
Karen Newman, 1987-1993
Ellen Rooney, 1993-2000
Elizabeth Weed, 2000-2010
Kay Warren 2011-
Theory on the Move: Three Decades of Critical Feminist Theory
A scholarly conference in celebration of the Pembroke Center's 30th Anniversary |
