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Feminist Theory Archives

Established by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, in partnership with the Brown University Library, the collection is actively acquiring the papers of prominent scholars. Many scholars have signed letters of intent to donate their papers in the future. The Pembroke Center is actively expanding the Feminist Theory Archives, which is housed at the John Hay Library. Inquiries regarding donating items to or accessing the Archives should be directed to Pembroke_Archives@Brown.edu.

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The following scholars already have papers in the collection or have signed letters of intent to donate their papers in the future:

Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Linda Martin Alcoff, Hunter College - City University of New York
Emily Apter, New York University
Frances Bartkowski, Rutgers University - Newark
Sandra Lee Bartky, University of Illinois-Chicago
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Jessica Benjamin, New York University
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, Cornell University
Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago
Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
Susan Bordo, University of Kentucky
Rachel Bowlby, University College London
Teresa Brennan,(1952-2003)
Karen Brodkin, University of California-Los Angeles
Wendy L. Brown, University of California-Berkeley
Judith Butler, University of California-Berkeley
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University
Elizabeth A. Castelli, Barnard College, Columbia University
Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton University
Joan Copjec, SUNY - Buffalo
Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University
Elizabeth Cowie, Rutherford College, University of Kent
Joan E. DeJean, University of Pennsylvania
Penelope L. Deutscher, Northwestern University
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University
Janice L. Doane, Saint Mary’s College-California
Mary Ann Doane, University of California-Berkeley
Ann duCille, Wesleyan University
Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca College
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago
Yasmine Ergas, Columbia University
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Brown University
Frances Ferguson, Johns Hopkins University
Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California-Davis
Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Judith Kegan Gardiner, University of Illinois-Chicago
Inderpal Grewal, Yale University
Shahla Haeri, Boston University
Sandra Harding, University of California-Los Angeles
Nancy C.M. Hartsock, University of Washington
Mae G. Henderson, University of North Carolina
Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University
Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University
Jean E. Howard, Columbia University
Lynne R. Huffer, Emory University
Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado-Boulder
Alice A. Jardine, Harvard University
Claire Kahane, SUNY-Buffalo, emeritus
Coppelia Kahn, Brown University
Cora Kaplan, Queen Mary College, University of London
Vicki Kirby, University of New South Wales
Dorothy Yin-Ye Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University
K. Dian Kriz, Brown University
Louise Lamphere, University of New Mexico
Joan B. Landes, Pennsylvania State University
Marnia Lazreg, Hunter College
Saba Mahmood, University of California-Berkeley
Elaine Marks (1930-2001)
Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia
Diane Middlebrook (1939 - 2007)
Nancy K. Miller, City University of New York
Tania Modleski, University of Southern California
Henrietta L. Moore, University of Cambridge
Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster
Karen Newman, New York University
Linda Nicholson, Washington University
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
Felicity A. Nussbaum, University of California-Los Angeles
Kelly Oliver, Vanderbilt University
Constance Penley, University of California-Santa Barbara
Mary Poovey, New York University
Denise Riley, University of East Anglia
Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Avital Ronell, New York University
Ellen Rooney, Brown University
Jacqueline Rose, Queen Mary University of London
Renata Salecl, Central European University
Chela Sandoval, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sylvia Schafer, University of Connecticut
Mira Schor, Parsons School of Design
Naomi Schor (1943-2001)
Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study
Jenny Sharpe, University of California-Los Angeles
Elaine Showalter, Princeton University, emerita
Barbara H. Smith, Brown University and Duke University
Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University
Ann Laura Stoler, New School for Social Research
Jennifer Terry, University of California-Irvine
Barrie Thorne, University of California-Berkeley
Louise A. Tilly, New School for Social Research, emerita
Leti Volpp, Berkeley Law University of California
Judith R. Walkowitz, The Johns Hopkins University
Kay B. Warren, Brown University
Elizabeth Weed, Brown University
Kari Weil, Wesleyan University
Laura Wexler, Yale University
Mimi White, Northwestern University
Faith Wilding, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Linda Williams, University of California-Berkeley
Patricia Williams, Columbia University
Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University
Linda M.G. Zerilli, University of Chicago
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, SUNY - Buffalo

The Feminist Theory Archives is an exceptional archival collection representing scholars who have transformed their disciplines and the intellectual landscape of universities in the United States and internationally. This focused and coherent manuscript collection is indispensable to historians, cultural critics, and theorists.

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