Women's Studies Programs, Departments, Centers, and Libraries

In the United States

• University at Albany, SUNY
  • Center for Women in Government and Civil Society
  • Institute for Research on Women
• Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Baylor College of Medicine
• Brandeis University has a Women's Studies Research Center and is also the home of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute. 614 HBI E-Zine is the Institute's newsletter.
• Women's Research Institute, Brigham Young University
• Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, State University of New York at Buffalo.
• Catalyst is a nonprofit research and advisory organization working to advance women in business and the professions.
• University of California Davis
  • Chicana/Latina Research Center
  • Consortium for Women and Research
• Center for the Study of Women, University of California Los Angeles. CSW Update is the Center's newsletter.
• Center for Research on Women & Social Justice, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Center for Feminist Research, University of Southern California. The Center has a newsletter.
• Center for Women Policy Studies is an independent feminist policy research and advocacy institution located in Washington, DC. It has a newsletter.
• Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University
• Institute for Women and Work, Cornell University
• Five College Women's Studies Research Center, housed on the Mount Holyoke campus, is co-sponsored by Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts.
• Women's Research Center, University of Central Florida
• Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida. News and Views is the Center's newsletter.
• Women's Studies Research and Resource Center, George Mason University
• Center for the Study of Women, Science, & Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, Hastings College of Law, University of California, supports women asylum-seekers fleeing gender related harm.
• African American Women's Institute, Howard University
• Center for Research on Women and Gender, the University of Illinois at Chicago. Building Research Connections is the Center's newsletter.
• Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington, DC, includes projects on Health & Safety, Poverty, Welfare & Income Security, Work & Family, and other research topics. Issues of IWPR Quarterly Newsletter are down the page a bit.
• International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC, researches issues of gender and development.
• Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University, includes the Archives of Women's Political Communication.
• Kinsey Research Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana University
• Gannon Center for Women and Leadership, Loyola University
• Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee. Standpoint is its newsletter.
• University of Michigan
  • Center for the Education of Women; one of its projects is the National Clearinghouse on Academic Worklife.
  • Institute for Research on Women and Gender; its newsletter.
• University of Minnesota
  • Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute. One of its projects produces case studies in women and public policy.
  • Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport. Tucker Center News is the Center's newsletter.
• University of Mississippi Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies; its newsletter
• The National Council for Research on Women (U.S.) site includes their Directory of Member Centers, List of International Centers for Research on Women, and information about other NCRW publications, initiatives, and conferences.
• National Research Center for Women & Families promotes the health and safety of women, children, and families
• National Women's Law Center works to get new laws on the books and enforced; litigates ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts, and educates the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women
• Newcomb College Center for Research on Women, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• University of Pennsylvania
  • Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality
  • Center for Research on Reproductive and Women's Health (in the School of Medicine)
• Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women and Gender, University of Rochester
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
• Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
  • Center for American Women and Politics studies women office holders, voting patterns, and more
  • Center for Women's Global Leadership; its newsletter
• Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, in the School of Theatre, Television and Film at San Diego State (Link goes to an announcement in May, 2008)
• Society for Women's Health Research advocates for inclusion of women in research studies, more funding to research women's health, etc.
• Southwest Institute for Research on Women, housed at the University of Arizona; covers 30 campuses in the Southwest; newsletters
• Women's Research & Resource Center, Spelman College
• Center for Women's Intercultural Leadership, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame
• Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University focuses on women and gender in science, engineering, technology, mathematics, and business
• Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
• Institute for Women's Health, Texas Woman's University; its newsletter
• Institute for Teaching and Research on Women, Towson State University, Towson, Maryland includes the National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women.
• The Wellesley Centers for Women include the Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies, which has done theoretical work on women's psychological development. The Centers are at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Research & Action Report is its newsletter.
• University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Center for Women's Health and Women's Health Research
  • Women's Studies Research Center
• Women's Research and Education Institute's mission is to inform and help shape policies around women's issues.

Worldwide

Selected Centers Outside the United States

Austria

• The Rosa Luxemburg Institute; site includes a list of women's studies in German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, and Switzerland).

Canada

• Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
• Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, includes the Centre for Studies in Autobiography, Gender and Age
• Women's College Research Institute researches women and health
• McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, McGill University
• McMaster Research Centre for the Promotion of Women's Health, McMaster University The FREDA Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children, co-sponsored by Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and community groups.
• Centre for Women's Studies in Education, University of Toronto site includes a bibliography of "Feminist Theses Done at OISE/UT, 1972-2006"
• Centre for Women's Studies and Feminist Research at The University of Western Ontario

Croatia

• Centre for Women's Studies, Zagreb

Czech Republic

• Gender Studies Centre (site is in Czech)

Egypt

• Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, University of Cairo

Estonia

• Estonian Women's Studies and Resource Center

Germany

• Global Center for Women's Studies and Politics (GLOW), sponsored by the Feminist Institute of the Heinrich-Boell-Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Iran

• Center for Women's Studies, University of Tehran

Ireland

• WERRC: Women's Education, Research, and Resource Group, University College, Dublin, published f/m feminist magazine.

Japan

• National Women's Education Centre, Saitama, Japan

Lebanon

• Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, publishes Al-Raida

Macedonia

• Euro Balkan Research Center in Gender Studies, Skopje

Northern Ireland

• Center for Advancement of Women in Politics is based in the School of Politics and International Studies in Queen's University Belfast. The Center aims to foster "an appreciation of women's contribution to politics, government and public decision making in the UK and Ireland."

Norway

• Kilden: Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway, Oslo (English link)
• Nordic Gender Institute (formerly NIKK)

South Africa

• African Gender Institute, University of Capetown, South Africa

South Korea

• Asian Center for Women's Studies, Ewha Womans Unversity, Seoul, South Korea

Spain

• La Escalera Karakola, Madrid, "has housed projects investigating the working conditions and urban experience of migrant women, debates about the transformations of the LGBT movement, lesbian marriage and the ‘pink market’, discussions about the feminist grounding for antimilitarist interventions."

Sri Lanka

• Centre for Women's Research, Colombo

United Kingdom

• The Gender Equality Network (GeNet), sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, includes research projects in eight universities in the UK. Newsletter