Emily A. Owens, David and Michelle Ebersman Assistant Professor of History at Brown, gave the annual Elizabeth Munves Sherman ’77, P’06’09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies to a crowded audience of students, staff, and faculty. Owens discussed the mechanisms by which sexual violence became engrained into American society in its first centuries.

Groundbreaking collections amplify feminist scholarship and the voices of incarcerated people

New course in reproductive justice will provide 20 students with doula training and reproductive justice education.

New Pembroke Director names enhancing diversity initiatives, scholarship as priorities

With the papers of Hortense J. Spillers arriving at Brown last fall, the Pembroke Center Archives has deepened its archive of black feminist theory.

A $1.5 million gift establishing the Shauna M. Stark ’76 P’10 Postdoctoral Fellow will support the Center’s teaching and research mission, while a $300,000 gift to the Pembroke Center Archives will help preserve and promote women’s history.