CSW’s continuing success in creating a vital environment within which scholars explore new frontiers of knowledge about women, sexuality, and gender is owing largely to the amazing devotion, expertise, and commitment to excellence of each of our directors.

Grace Kyungwon Hong
Director, July 2020--Present
Center for the Study of Women
Rachel Lee
Director, April 2015--June 2020; Interim Director, Winter--Spring 2013
Center for the Study of Women
Elizabeth Marchant
Interim Director, July 2014--December 2014
Center for the Study of Women
Kathleen McHugh
Director, 2005--Fall 2012, July 2013-June 2014
Center for the Study of Women
Christine Littleton
Interim Director, 2003--2005
Center for the Study of Women
Miriam Silverberg
Director, 2000--2003
Center for the Study of Women
Sandra Harding
Director, 1996--1999
Center for the Study of Women
Kathryn Norberg
Director, 1992--1995
Center for the Study of Women
Helen Astin and Julia Wrigley
Acting Codirectors, 1990--1991
Center for the Study of Women
Carrie Menkel-Meadow and Letitia Anne Peplau
Acting Codirectors, 1988-1990
Center for the Study of Women
Karen Rowe
Founding Director, 1984--1988
Center for the Study of Women