Pembroke Center

Center Faculty

Leela Gandhi

Shauna McKee Stark ’76 P’10 Director of the Pembroke Center, John Hawkes Professor of the Humanities and English (on sabbatical 2023-24)

leela_gandhi@brown.edu

Research Profile
Denise Davis

Senior Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Editor of differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies

Denise_Davis@brown.edu
Wendy Allison Lee

Associate Director of the Pembroke Center, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies

wendy_lee@brown.edu

Research Profile
Helis Sikk

Lecturer in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Academic Events

helis_sikk@brown.edu

Faculty Steering Committee

Madina Agénor

Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nadje Al-Ali

Robert Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Leticia Alvarado

Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies
Amanda Anderson

Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities
Nitsan Chorev

Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International & Public Affairs , Director of the Graduate Program in Development
Bathsheba Demuth

Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Environment and Society
Lingzhen Wang

Professor of East Asian Studies, Co-Director, Nanjing-Brown Joint Program
Debbie Weinstein

Interim Director of the Pembroke Center (2023-24), Associate Professor of American Studies
Vazira Zamindar

Associate Professor of History

Nancy Duke Lewis Chair

The holder of the Nancy Duke Lewis Chair is a senior scholar in any field who is distinguished in any area of gender and sexuality studies. While the person holds a full-time appointment in a department or departments, she or he also contributes to the development of research and teaching related to the study of gender.

Bonnie Honig

Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science

bonnie_honig@brown.edu

Research Profile

Anne Fausto-Sterling
Biology, Gender Studies
2009-2014

Nancy Armstrong
English, Comparative Literature, Modern Culture and Media
1992-2009

Naomi Schor
French Studies
1985-1989

Joan Wallach Scott
History
1980-1985

Rosalie Colie
Comparative Literature
1967-1972

Visiting Faculty and Scholars

Ann duCille

2016-17 Inaugural Distinguished Professor in Residence, Black Feminist Theory Project, Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Ashley Dun

Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Pamela Foa

Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Sarah Gamble

Communications Manager, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Christina Gilligan

Visiting Scholar in Gender and Sexuality Studies
Linda Scott

Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
Elizabeth Weed

Senior Fellow in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Editor, differences journal