UW-Milwaukee Office of Women's and Gender Studies Records, 1972-2024

Biography/History

The Office of Women's Studies was established in 1974 within the School of Social Welfare. The Women's Studies Certificate Program was created in 1991. The Office became the Center for Women's Studies and moved into the Graduate School in 1983. It changed to the Women's Studies Program in 2011. In 2013 the program became a tenure home (a department-like body) and the director position changed to a chair.

Department Coordinators

1974-1976 Lenore W. Harmon
1976-1983 Rachel Skalitsky

Directors, Center for Women's Studies

1983-1988 Margo Anderson
1988-1989 Margo Conk
1989-1992 Janice Yoder
1992-1995 Merry Wiesner-Hanks
1995-2000 Susan Burgess
2000-2002 Eleanor Miller
2002-2005 Merry Wiesner-Hanks
2005-2006 Genevieve McBride
2006-2013 Gwynne Kennedy

Chairs, Women and Gender Studies

2013-2016 Andrea Westlund
2016-2018 Caroline Eichner
2018-2019 Gwynne Kennedy
2019-present Anna Mansson McGinty