The Pembroke Center Associates is a group of alumnae/i, students, and friends who work to secure the mission of the the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and provide opportunities for community involvement in the Center's programs. We sponsor events that complement the work of the Center and
offer an avenue for alumnae/i, students, and friends to stay intellectually engaged with Brown University.

The Pembroke Center plays a unique role at Brown University. Founded in 1981, 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, economics, and so forth. In an era that seems marked by clashes of all types, the Pembroke Center explores the ways questions of difference affect our thinking and our world.

The Pembroke Center offers a broad range of research, teaching, and alumnae/i programs. Its interdisciplinary research program, which draws scholars from around the world, has earned a reputation for excellence. Its scholarly journal, differences, the premier journal in feminist cultural studies, enjoys a worldwide readership. The Center’s work to preserve the history of women at Brown and in Rhode Island has produced the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives, a rich resource for scholars.



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The Pembroke Center Associates is a group of alumnae/i, students, and friends who work to secure the mission of the the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and provide opportunities for community involvement in the Center's programs. We sponsor events that complement the work of the Center and
offer an avenue for alumnae/i, students, and friends to stay intellectually engaged with Brown University.

The Pembroke Center plays a unique role at Brown University. Founded in 1981,... (read more)