CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

This document provides an email thread that began on March 31, 2008, with Anne Humpherys, part of the Graduate Center's External Review Committee for the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS). In her email, Humpherys stated she was responsible for writing CSWS's history but could not find a list of directors before 1994, when CSWS's director position was combined with the Women's Studies Certificate Program (WSCP) coordinator. Laura Ciavarella-Sanchez, Elizabeth Small, Susan Saegert, Cynthia Epstein, and Anne Kanellopoulos were added to the thread. Finally, though the original director was said to be Mary Brown Parlee, who started in 1979, it was acknowledged that Susan Saegert operationally ran the center from 1977 to 1979. The email thread also revealed that the singular "no" vote on CSWS's creation indicated skepticism and hostility to the fact that such a center was even being considered.