The Pembroke Center’s two complementary archives – the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive and the Feminist Theory Archive – explore Brown and Rhode Island women’s history and the intellectual history of feminist theory.  The Center is engaged in a campaign to build an endowment to support these archives with enhanced resources to grow the collections and increase their accessibility for teaching and research.  Thanks to a leadership gift of $1 million from Pembroke Center Associates Council chair Nancy L. Buc’65 – and increasing support from alumnae/i and friends – the Center is well on its way.

Naomi Schor, Paris, 1976On April 4, 2003, the Pembroke Center inaugurated the Feminist Theory Archives with a reception to accept the papers of the late Naomi Schor. Co-founding editor of differences and former Nancy Duke Lewis Professor at Brown, Schor was, at the time of her death in 2001, the Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French at Yale University.  Pembroke Center Archivist Wendy Korwin developed a slideshow featuring personal correspondence from Schor's papers.