10 Year Anniversary
The Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago was established in 1996, after a decade of faculty and student self-organization. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Center for Gender Studies. Our mission has been to foster innovative research, teaching, and debate on gender and sexuality and to help build a feminist public sphere here at the University of Chicago.
Looking back at these ten years, there is firm ground for optimism: the Center continues to produce challenging programming for audiences within and outside the university; we have a thriving major and a new minor for undergraduates; we have sponsored approximately forty-five dissertating students whose work constitutes the next generation of scholarship in the field; we have likewise provided scores of teaching opportunities for graduate students; we continue to have a vibrant faculty community engaged with the Center. As we enter our second decade, the Center is committed to working with our students, faculty and alumnae to maintain the high level of energy we have enjoyed and to foster ground-breaking approaches to the future of feminism, gender and sexuality studies and queer studies.