We are lucky to be located in PVD, & grateful for strong relationships with so many community partners -- from Allegra, the local print shop that prints our materials, to the Providence Public Library, a valued collaborator. Thank you, PVD. ❤️ brown.edu/brown-loves-providence #BrownLovesProvidence

In three weeks! Don't miss it.

Out of the Archives: the papers of NYC-based privacy advocate & attorney Heidi Boghosian ‘77 are open for research. Her papers document decades of social justice work & activism. Image shows a “public assistance” board game given to her as a gag. Link to finding aid www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

Join us Friday, March 6 for History under Siege!

Graduate & undergrad student applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Friday, 3/6/26. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, assoc. prof. of anthropology & linguistics. More: pembroke.brown.edu/seminar/part.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Deadline extended: Brown faculty applications for Seminar Fellowships are due Monday, February 23, 2026. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, associate professor of anthropology and linguistics. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | Enclosure and Social Formation: Toward a Media Archeology of the Wall-City | Jinying Li The Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 On Paule Marshall: Mary Helen Washington: A Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive Event. events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @africanastudies.bsky.social

Join us Friday, March 6 for History under Siege!

From the Archives: The Deborah E. McDowell papers, available for research. McDowell is Alice Griffin Prof. Emerita of Literary Studies at UVA. Image is a program from Toni Morrison's 70th birthday, signed by Morrison, Ann DuCille, & Hortense Spillers. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

Graduate & undergrad student applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Friday, 3/6/26. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, assoc. prof. of anthropology & linguistics. More: pembroke.brown.edu/seminar/part.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | Enclosure and Social Formation: Toward a Media Archeology of the Wall-City | Jinying Li The Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

Thursday, February 19, 2026 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 On Paule Marshall: Mary Helen Washington: A Shauna M. Stark ’76, P’10 Out of the Archive Event. events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @africanastudies.bsky.social

Brown faculty applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Monday, February 16, 2026. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, associate professor of anthropology and linguistics. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Applications due Monday, March 2, 2026: Pembroke Interdisciplinary Faculty Seed Grants provide up to $10k in funds for scholarly group projects for Brown faculty. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo....

Thursday, February 5: MONUMENTS: Hamza Walker and Hannah Burstein | A Pembroke Seminar “The Civic Work of Monuments” Lecture 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. More information, and link to Zoom: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve... @juliethooker.bsky.social

Out of the Archives: papers of NYC-based privacy advocate & attorney Heidi Boghosian ‘77 are open for research. Boghosian is a key figure in civil liberties advocacy, gov't surveillance research, & digital rights activism. Finding aid www.riamco.org/render?eadid... Image: posters from collection

Graduate & undergrad student applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Friday, 3/6/26. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, assoc. prof. of anthropology & linguistics. More: pembroke.brown.edu/seminar/part.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 | Enclosure and Social Formation: Toward a Media Archeology of the Wall-City | Jinying Li The Elizabeth Munves Sherman '77, P'06 '09 Lecture in Gender and Sexuality Studies 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Learn more: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

The Deborah E. McDowell papers are now available for research. McDowell is Alice Griffin Prof. Emerita of Literary Studies at UVA & director of the Julian Bond Papers Project. This image is “Norton Anthology editors at Cornell, 1987.” Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid... @dem8z.bsky.social

Applications due Monday, March 2, 2026: Pembroke Interdisciplinary Faculty Seed Grants provide up to $10k in funds for scholarly group projects for Brown faculty. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo....

A real highlight of last semester. Give it a watch if you missed it!

Out of the Archives: Premal Dharia '00 is Exec Director of Harvard's Institute to End Mass Incarceration, where she is also lecturer on law & clinical instructor. Listen to her interview with our Oral History Project: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral... @endmassinc.bsky.social @premaldharia.bsky.social

Graduate & undergrad student applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Friday, 3/6/26. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, assoc. prof. of anthropology & linguistics. More: pembroke.brown.edu/seminar/part.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Brown faculty applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Monday, February 16, 2026. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, associate professor of anthropology and linguistics. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 2/2

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 1/2

Graduate & undergrad student applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Friday, 3/6/26. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, assoc. prof. of anthropology & linguistics. More: pembroke.brown.edu/seminar/part.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Brown faculty applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Monday, February 16, 2026. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, associate professor of anthropology and linguistics. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Brown faculty applications for Pembroke Seminar Fellowships are due Monday, February 16, 2026. The 2026-27 Seminar, “The Meanings of Merit” will be led by Paja Faudree, associate professor of anthropology and linguistics. Learn more: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... @pajaf.bsky.social

Students in Eliana Chavkin's class "Designing Public Memory: Race, Gender, & the Creation of the American Commemorative Landscape" present their final projects. Each created a proposal for a public memorial, including Līhu'e sugar plantation (Kauai), women in education at Brown, & PVD's Chinatown.

We're Hiring! Louise Lamphere Visiting Assistant Professorship in Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Appointment effective July 1, 2026 and jointly affiliated with @pembrokecenter.bsky.social. Learn more and apply by February 15, 2026: @americananthro.bsky.social

Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...

I’m proud to be part of this issue

Out of the Archives: at their 25th reunion, Class of 1999 members Emily Coe-Sullivan, Rachel Reichlin, and Mariah Sixkiller talk about Brown in the late '90s, transitioning to college, women's sports, and sexual assault on campus. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral...

Good news: the recording of Judith Butler's "Variations of Legal Violence," the 2025-26 Pembroke Publics Lecture, is now available. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Due TODAY! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Due tomorrow! Welcoming applications from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

Due next week! Applications for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the Seminar theme, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

OPPORTUNITY: Led by Paja Faudree, @pembrokecenter.bsky.social will award residential Postdoctoral Research Associate positions to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." Learn more & apply:

Congratulations to the graduate student recipients of the 2025-26 Pembroke Center student research grants! Read about their projects here: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-11... @brownpublichealth.bky.social

Congratulations to the 2025-26 undergraduate recipients of Pembroke Center student research grants! Read about their projects: pembroke.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Out of the Archives: Kloey Albertson '27 talks about life as a Brown undergraduate and Army veteran for our Oral History Project. Listen: sites.brown.edu/pembrokeoral... @brown.edu

Due 11/24! Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24/25. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social

From the Archives: The Miranda Summers Lowe papers are now available for research. Summers Lowe is an Army Major and Army National Guard Historian with the National Guard Bureau. She graduated with her A.M. from Brown University in 2009. Finding aid: www.riamco.org/render?eadid...

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 2/2

Explore the Spring 2026 Gender and Sexuality Studies course offerings. For more information, visit Courses@Brown. Post 1/2

Unfortunately we have had to reschedule Sue Mobley's talk "The New Monuments," originally scheduled for November 18. We will share the new date once it is finalized. @juliethooker.bsky.social

Join us Tues., 11/18, 4:00 p.m. Pembroke Hall 305 Sue Mobley: “The New Monuments: Case Studies in Emerging Modes of Community-Driven Commemoration and Subaltern Public History in Public Space” More information: buff.ly/eUQxTqb @juliethooker.bsky.social

A lovely story about the Pembroke Hall renovation in the Brown Daily Herald. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025... @browndailyherald.bsky.social