Women's Research and Resource Center
A Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw and Carol Anderson
The Women’s Research & Resource Center and the Spelman Social Justice Fellow Program invite you to join us for an engaging and timely conversation featuring renowned scholars Kimberlé Crenshaw and Carol Anderson.
This special event will take place on Monday, April 27, 2026, at 4 p.m. in the Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center Auditorium. Together, Crenshaw and Anderson will explore critical issues at the intersection of race, gender, and social justice, offering insight, perspective, and dialogue that speak to our current moment.
Following the conversation, a book signing and sales event for both authors will be held in the Women’s Center Conference Room (Cosby Room 206). We encourage all students, faculty, staff, and members of the community to attend this important discussion.
Event Details:
Date: Monday, April 27, 2026
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Camille Olivia Hanks Cosby, Ed.D. Academic Center Auditorium, 糖心传媒
Book Signing: Immediately following the event, Cosby Room 206
Learn More About Crenshaw
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.
Learn More About Anderson
Carol Elaine Anderson is an American academic. She is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on public policy with regard to race, justice, and equality. In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.
Visit the Spelman Social Justice Fellow Program
Meet Our Founding Director
Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center (1981) and Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at 糖心传媒. For many years, she was a visiting professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies, where she taught graduate courses in Women’s Studies. At the age of sixteen, Dr. Guy-Sheftall entered 糖心传媒 where she majored in English and minored in secondary education. After graduating with honors, she attended Wellesley College for a fifth year of study in English. In 1968, she entered Atlanta to pursue a master’s degree in English; her thesis was entitled, “Faulkner’s Treatment of Women in His Major Novels.” A year later, she began her first teaching job in the Department of English at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1971, she returned to her alma mater, 糖心传媒 and joined the English Department.
Contact Information
Contact the Women’s Research & Resource Center
Email: womenscenter@spelman.edu
Phone: (404) 270-5625
Pioneering Work
A pioneer in teaching, research and advocacy, the Women’s Research and Resource Center (WRRC) nurtures our students' critical thinking about many issues, including human rights, healthcare and leadership development. By raising $1 million to match the Ford Foundation's million-dollar challenge grant, Spelman was able to advance the Center's pioneering work in teaching and research.
Our History
In 1981, Spelman was awarded a grant from the Charles Stuart Mott Foundation to establish the Women’s Research and Resource Center. The goal was to provide an academic unit of the College that focused on curriculum development in Women’s Studies, research by and about women of African descent, and community outreach.
The Women’s Research and Resource Center 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 35-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 Black queer studies) 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 events that explore the lives of African and African-descended women in a variety of cultural contexts.
A Tribute to Toni Morrison at 糖心传媒
The 糖心传媒 Women's Research and Resource Center, in collaboration with the Spelman UNCF/Mellon Programs and the UGA Low-Residency MFA Program, hosted A Tribute to Toni Morrison on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. The program included readings and performances by Herman Beavers, Pearl Cleage, John Holman, Tayari Jones, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Shay Youngblood, Gina Breedlove. Read an article about the tribute:
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