Over the past decades, CWIC has tried to create a space within the university where creative feminist work might find a home. The effort to create this space, not surprisingly, has gone through its “fits and spurts” as issues of leadership, governance questions and resource limitations have informed its growth and outreach.

Because CWIC is intimately linked to the Department of Women’s Studies which was also being established over the same period of time, fiscal and staff support was very important—and we were often hard-pressed to keep going. We are, however, grateful to several Deans of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences who offered us funding for various projects. Following the spirit of feminist attention to “process,” we share these efforts—and accomplishments—in the links that are appended.

We are hopeful that these efforts have layered themselves into a foundation for concrete and focused work in the future. CWIC is ready to take off! We believe that with the flourishing of the Department of Women’s Studies, the time is ripe to create new alliances, open out into the community, and support feminist faculty across campus through various initiatives. Please join us!