To a More Perfect Union: United States v. Windsor

Shamara AlhassanThe Pembroke Center is delighted to announce that Shamara Alhassan has won the 2019 Marie J. Langlois Dissertation Prize for an outstanding dissertation in an area of feminist studies.

2019 Pembroke Center Commencement Forum

Saturday, May 25, 2019
11 a.m. 
List Auditorium
64 College Street

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The Pembroke Center annually awards three prizes for outstanding theses and dissertations. Nominations for the Langlois and Simmons prizes are due at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, April 23rd. Prizes awarded are:

• Ruth J. Simmons Prize (undergraduate honors thesis from any department on questions having to do with women or gender )
• Joan Wallach Scott Prize (undergraduate honors thesis in Gender and Sexuality Studies)
• Marie J. Langlois Prize (graduate student dissertation from any field on questions related to feminist studies)

Nomination requirements for the Langlois and Simmons prizes may be found here.

Staff and students at work in the Pembroke Center ArchivesLearn about the work of Mary Murphy, the Nancy L. Buc '65 Pembroke Center Archivist,  and how the collaboration between the Pembroke Center and the John Hay Library provides an easy connection to the Pembroke Center Archives, a treasure trove of documents, interviews and photos by and about women.

Reza Abdoh

Patricia Ybarra, professor of theatre arts and performance studies, will deliver the 2019 Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06, P'09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies on April 16.

The lecture explores how Abdoh, the late, queer Iranian-American director and playwright, interrogates what theatre critic Hilton Als calls the damage of patriarchy in American culture, focusing on Abdoh’s 1990 theatre work “Father Was a Peculiar Man.”