Women's Research & Resource Center

Contact

350 Spelman Lane
Atlanta, GA 30314
Ph. 404/270-5625
Fx. 404/223-7665
http://www.spelman.edu/about_us/distinction/womenscenter/index.shtml
kuumba@spelman.edu
bsheftall@aol.com

The WRRC is the first women's research center at a historically Black college and the first one to offer a women 's studies major. Over the course of its 25 year history, with sustained support from the Ford Foundation, the Center has facilitated faculty and student leadership development; collaborated with other departments/programs on and off campus to establish new courses (most recently in the sciences) that address issues of gender and race; established international linkages with universities outside the U.S. to increase their capacity to promote faculty and student development; and hosted a number of conferences that explore the lives of African and African descended women in a variety of cultural contexts.

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Principal Staff

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Dir. Women's Research & Resource Center & Anna Julia Cooper Prof. of Women's Studies
E-mail: bsheftal@spelman.edu

M. Bahati Kuumba, Dir. Women's Research & Resource Center & Associate Professor
E-mail: kuumba@spelman.edu

Ayoka Chenzira, Director of Digital Moving Salon and Professor of Women's Studies
E-mail: chenzira@spelman.edu

Monica Melton, Assistant Professor Women's Studies
E-mail: mmelton2@spelman.edu

Yvonne Vinson, Program Coordinator
E-mail: yvinson@spelman.edu

Areas of Expertise:

Diversity & Leadership, Awareness & Education, Girls & STEM, Higher Education, Women's, Gender & Feminist Studies, Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

Member Experts:

Beverly Guy-Sheftall


Projects & Campaigns

Feminist Thought & Scholarship

Sojourner Truth Women's Studies Collective. Founded in 1999, the Sojourner Collective is a feminist organization designed to support not only Comparative Women's Studies majors/minors but all people interested in progressive struggle to end sexist/racist/classist/heterosexist oppression.

 

 

 

 

Reports & Resources

Newsletter

 

Sisters of the Word, bi-annual newsletter.

 

Opportunities, Grants & Fellowships

Toni Cade Bambara Writer/Scholar/Activist Program and Collective. This unique internship/mentoring program, builds on a long tradition of black feminist scholar/activism at the College. Founded in 1985, this unique student leadership development program was renamed in 1996 in honor of the late scholar/activist Toni Cade Bambara. Bambara's writings and political activism reflected a profound understanding of the interconnections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. This program is designed to attract and help nurture committed students who are interested in becoming scholar/activists.

 

 


Multimedia

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Angela Davis Honors Beverly Guy-Sheftall During NWSA Conference

Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad. She has been active as a student, teacher, writer, scholar, and activist/organizer. Davis served as the keynote speaker for the 2009 National Women's Studies Association's annual conference where she honored Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., NWSA President & Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Womens Studies at Spelman College.