Pembroke Center For Teaching And Research On Women
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women was established in 1981 at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, as an interdisciplinary research center on gender and society. In addition to research, its mission also includes the preservation of the history of women at Brown and promotion of excellent teaching. The Center's director is anthropologist Kay Warren.
The Pembroke Center was named in honor of Pembroke College in Brown University, and the women of Pembroke and its predecessor, the Women's College. It also honors those early women who fought to gain access to higher education and who raised the money to build Pembroke Hall in 1897. Although established to explore the cultural and social meanings of gender, the Center's research quickly expanded to include the many other differences critical to the understanding of gender: ethnicity, race, nationality, and economics.
The Pembroke Center offers a broad range of research, teaching, and alumnae/i programs. It publishes an academic journal, differences, covering feminist cultural studies. The Center's work to preserve the history of women at Brown and in Rhode Island has produced the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives.
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