Title: UW-Milwaukee Office of Women's and Gender Studies Records
Inclusive Dates: 1972-2024

Creator:

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Office of Women's and Gender Studies

Call Numbers: UWM Archival Collection 64; Accession 2021-003

Quantity:

• .4 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
• 36 digital files (170.3 GB)
• plus additions of 3.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes)

Repository:

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives Department

Archival Location:

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Miscellaneous records of the Office of Women's and Gender Studies, as well as materials preceeding the office's establishment in 1974 which focus on the need for a women's studies program and document the office's development. The collection contains a correspondence file with various memos and announcements relating to courses, staffing, and other department functions; also included are minutes of the Women's Studies Advisory Committee. The collection also contains a questionnaire (1972-1975) given to faculty regarding women's issues being taught in their courses; the results were used to compile a cross-listing of courses with the Office of Women's Studies. Other records in the collection include correspondence regarding a lecture given by Sheila Tobias, a report on the campus day care program, brochures, newspaper clippings, and several issues of the Women's Studies News.

Language: English

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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

Scope and content notes of each series are provided in the contents list.

The files are organized alphabetically by personal name or by subject, then chronologically. This collection was received in, and is organized in, multiple parts. Additional materials have not been physically or intellectually arranged and interfiled, and researchers may need to consult more than one part of the collection to locate similar materials.

1. UWM Manuscript Collection 64: Records, 1972-2024
2. Departmental Records, 1972-1991
3. Asia: in Conversation, 2020-2023
4. Diversity History Book - Oral History Interviews, 2020-2021

The collection contains one additional accession.

• Accession 2021-003: Office of Women and Gender Studies records, 1972-1991

Citation Guide for Primary Sources

Access Restrictions

There are some access restrictions on the materials, the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. There are restrictions to box two of Accession 2021-003.

Use Restrictions

The researcher assumes full responsibility for conforming with the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright which may be involved in the use of this collection (Wisconsin Statutes 19.21-19.39).

Acquisition Information

An unknown individual transferred the collection to the Archives prior to 1989. Gwynne Kennedy donated Accession 2021-003 in 2021.

Processing Information

Meredith L. Curtis processed the collection at the Archives in February 1994. Jeremy Brett added a few files in November 2006. Chloe Joy minimally processed addition 2021-003 in May, 2022. Lauran Slagle added information about digital files in February 2024.

UWM Archival Collection 64	Records, 1972-2024 Physical Description: .4 cubic ft. (2 boxes); 32 digital files (169.7 GB)
	Series: Departmental Records, 1972-1991 Scope and Content Note: This series consists of miscellaneous departmental records, as well as materials preceeding the office's establishment in 1974. The collection contains a correspondence file with various memos and announcements relating to courses, staffing, and other department functions; also included are minutes of the Women's Studies Advisory Committee, correspondence, reports, brochures, and several issues of the Women's Studies News.
Box   1 Folder   1	Advisory Council Meetings, 1974-1978
Box   1 Folder   2	Committee on the Status of Academic Women, 1977, 1984
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1972-1976
Box   1 Folder   4	Course Evaluation Forms, 1976, undated
Box   1 Folder   5	Day Care, 1974-1975
Box   1 Folder   6	Directory of Milwaukee Area Women's Organizations, 1978, 1981
Box   1 Folder   7	Great Lakes Women's Studies Association, 1978-1979
Box   1 Folder   8	Miscellaneous, 1975-1976, 1979, 1986, undated
Box   2 Folder   1	Newspaper Clippings, 1972-1976
Box   2 Folder   2	Planning Documents, 1981-1982, 1982-1983, and 1983-1984
Box   2 Folder   3	Program Brochures, 1974, 1976, 1979-1980
Box   2 Folder   4	Questionnaire and Cross Listed-Courses, 1972-1975
Box   2 Folder   5	Sheila Tobias Lecture, 1972
Box   2 Folder   6	Women's Film Festival, 1975
Box   2 Folder   7	Women's Studies News, 1975-1986, 1991
	Series: Asia: in Conversation, 2020-2023 Scope and Content Note: This series consists promotional flyers for, and recordings of, the Asia: in Conversation interview series.	⇧
	2021 April 15 Scope and Content Note: "We Are Here: Queer Feminist Engagements" with Shitou, Chinese Queer Artist; Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, Associate Professor, Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway; Xin Huang, Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (3.55 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 40 min., 38 sec.)
	2021 November 12 Scope and Content Note: "Career Development for Asian Faculty in Academia" with Ivy Lingqian Hu, Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UWM; Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, San Jose State University; James Nguyen H. Spencer, Vice Provost and Dean, The Graduate School, Louisiana State Univerrsity.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (1.11 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 30 min., 05 sec.)
	2021 December 10 Scope and Content Note: "All That is Bounded Melts Into Air: Discerning Cities Across Difference" with Swati Chatttopadhyay, Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara; Jeremy White, Architect, Game Designer, Lecturer, Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Arijit Sen, Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (2.47 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 27 min., 27 sec.)
	2022 February 11 Scope and Content Note: "Dialogue on Engagement with Communities and Research" with Janan Najeeb, President, Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition; Anna Mansson McGinty, Associate Professor, Geography and WOmen's and Gender Studies, UWM; Caroline Seymour-Journ, Professor, Comparative Literature, UWM; Kristin Sziarto, Associate Professor, Geography, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 27 min., 53 sec.)
	2022 November 18 Scope and Content Note: "Media, Technology, and Society in Late Imperial China" with Tobie Meyer-Fong, Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University; Suyoung Son, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University; Xin Yu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (1.13 MB)
	2023 February 24 Scope and Content Note: "Making Objects Speak: Material Culture in Asian History and Art History" with Morgan Pitelka, Distinguished Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill; Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor, Art History, University of Chicago; Hilary K. Snow, Teaching Faculty, Honors College, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (1.16 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 29 min., 29 sec.)
	2023 April 21 Scope and Content Note: "Making Objects Speak: Asian-related Materials in UWM's Special Collections" with Max Yela, Head, Special Collections, UWM Libraries; Nirmal Raja, Independent Artist and Curator, Milwaukee; Jingwei Zeng, Graduate Student, Department of Art History, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (1.11 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 32 min., 38 sec.)
	2023 November 03 Scope and Content Note: "Adaptations of Buddhist Thought and Practice in Modern Contexts: Three Case Studies" with Nalika Gajaweera, Senior Research Analyst, Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California; Rongdao Lai, Assistant Professor, School of Religious Studies and Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University; David DiValerio, Associate Professor, History and Religious Studies, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (435 KB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 32 min., 31 sec.)
	2024 March 15 Scope and Content Note: "Navigating Asian/Asian-American Identity in the Midwest, Southwest, and West: Fourishing in Unfamiliar Terrain" with Hyowon Ban, Professor, Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach; Seungyeon Lee, Associate Professor, Psychology and Counseling, University of Central Arkansas; Hyejin Yoon, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (1.35 MB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 29 min., 56 sec.)
	2024 April 3 Scope and Content Note: "Memory Fields and Histories of Circulation" with Kavita Panjabi, Former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Kumkum Sangari, Vilas Professor of English and the Humanities, UWM.
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Flyers\	Flyer Physical Description: 1 digital file (482 KB)
Electronic Folder     \Asia_in_Conversation\   Recordings\	Recording Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 49 min., 11 sec.)
	Series: Diversity History Book - Asian American Oral History Interviews, 2020-2021 Scope and Content Note: This series consists of recordings of the Diversity History Book - Asian American Oral History Interviews.	⇧
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Arora, Swarnjit 2021 January 14 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 02 min., 26 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Chan, Adrian 2020 December 17 Physical Description: 1 digital file (46 min., 58 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Chen, Yea Fen 2021 January 13 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 34 min., 26 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Cho, Kyoung Ae, 2021 March 06 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 14 min., 21 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Huang, Linda, 2021 January 15 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 06 min., 01 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Kiram, Emraida, 2021 January 26 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 10 min., 38 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Kuramoto, Alice, 2021 January 13 Physical Description: 1 digital file (58 min., 34 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Lamborn, Susie, 2021 January 23 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 08 min., 52 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Lie, Gwat-Yong, 2021 January 13 Physical Description: 1 digital file (49 min., 03 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Rasavong, Channy, 2021 January 11 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 07 min., 18 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Rohatgi, Pradeep, 2021 February 11 Physical Description: 1 digital file (39 min., 27 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Sangari, Kumkum, 2021 February 10 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 03 min., 44 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Takahashi, Shinji, 2021 January 14 Physical Description: 1 digital file (37 min., 31 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Vang, Chia Youyee, 2020 January 21 Physical Description: 1 digital file (1 hr., 09 min., 14 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Vang, Dao, 2021 January 15 Physical Description: 1 digital file (52 min., 44 sec.)
Electronic Folder     \Diversity_History_Book_Asian_American_Oral_History_Interviews\	Venupagalan, Devarajan, 2021 January 21 Physical Description: 1 digital file (53 min., 53 sec.)
Accession 2021-003	Office of Women and Gender Studies records, 1972-1991 Abstract: Additions of materials from 1972-1991.Box one contains meeting materials, budget notes, correspondence, and meeting calendars. Box two contains restricted materials, including scholarship applications and materials, and Title IX cases. Box three contains UWM Pro-Choice Coalition records and materials, and UWM Feminist Center records. Box four contains CSAW correspondence, and AWE records. Physical Description: 3.5 cubic ft. (4 boxes)