Articulating Differences
Since its inception, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women has been devoted to rigorous scholarship on the struggles people face as they seek equal opportunity, especially those whose gender identity or sexual orientation make them targets of violence. Attending to both national and transnational contexts, scholars with a wide range of disciplinary expertise convene at the center to confront real-world problems and advance justice and transformational change.
As a result of this multidisciplinary mission, the center fosters critical, collaborative scholarship on questions of gender and difference. Its unique array of programs and resources includes:
- The Pembroke Seminar, a year-long advanced research seminar
- An undergraduate concentration and graduate certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Public conferences and lectures
- International partnership projects
- Postdoctoral fellowships
- Seed grants and fellowships for Brown faculty and students in any discipline whose work concerns gender or sexuality
- A noted academic journal, differences
- The Pembroke Archives, dedicated to feminist and queer scholarship and the history of women at Brown and in Rhode Island