Directors and Staff

Faranak Miraftab (Urban and Regional Planning), Acting Director 2021-2022
Flavia Andrade (School of Social Work), Acting Director 2020-2021
Colleen Murphy (College of Law; Philosophy; Political Science), Director 2013-2020 (currently on Sabbatical until August 2021)
Gale Summerfield (Human and Community Development; GWS, and ACE) 1998-2013
Kathleen Cloud (Human and Community Development) Director 1986-1998
Frances Magrabi (Family and Consumer Economics) Acting Director 1985-1986
Founding Director Barbara Yates (Education Policy Studies) 1980-1985
Anita Kaiser, Assistant Director joined WGGP in 2005.
Manisha Desai was Associate Director from 2003-2007
Benda Eheart was Associate Director from 1991-1997
Noreen Sugrue was Assistant Professor and Research Associate from 2005-2017
Kathy Martin was Office Manager from 1990 to 2010
Min Zhan, Director joined CSGGE/WGGP in 2024

WGGP Historical Reflection on Directors and Staff (First 40 years)

 

Donors Through the Years
Jean Due and GRID Student Sophy Cai, April 2016
Mr. and Mrs. David Goodman with GRID Student Junjie Chen, 2004
Evelyne Accad and Gale Summerfield, 2013
Evelyne Accad with Beth Stafford and Gale Summerfield, 2013
Marianne Ferber, Gale Summerfield and GRID Alumni, 2011
Jean Due, 2006
Mr. and Mrs. David Goodman with Goodman Fellowship Recipient Maminirina Randrianandrasana, 2008
Marianne Ferber, 2007
Jean Due with Paolo Leon and Rose Korang-Okrah, 2007
Mr. and Mrs. David Goodman with Goodman Fellowship Recipient Eeshani Kandpal, 2009
Jean Due and Marianne Ferber during WGGP 2009 Spring Reception and Award Ceremony
Marianne Ferber with Merle Bowen and Maimouna Barro, 2010
Jean Due with GRID Students Tutin Aryanti and Tahreer Araj, 2010
Jean Due with GRID Students Maimouna Barro and Tutin Aryanti
Mr. and Mrs. David Goodman and Norman Goodman with former Goodman Fellowship Recipients, Spring 2011
Barbara Yates and Colleen Murphy, 2016

WGGP Major Donors Over the Years (1980-2020)

 

Event and Celebration Photos
GRID Graduates, 2010
Spring Recognition, 2007
Gale Summerfield with GRID Students, 2007
Gale Summerfield with GRID Students, 2005
GRID Student Batamaka Some, 2007
WGGP office photo, 2001
GRID Ceremony, 2002
GRID Students, 2000
Gale Summerfield with GRID seminar
GRID seminar
GRID Students
Gale Summerfield and Hewlett Conference participants
Spring Reception, 2007
Spring Reception photo, 2007
Spring Reception, 2007 with donors, GRID current and former students
Souad Halila event
Spring 2010 award recipients
2010 Spring Reception photos
2010 Spring Reception GRID Student photo
Spring 2010 photo
WGGP 30th Anniversary Lunch Concert with Jackline Madegwa
audience during 30th Anniversary lunch concert
Climate Change Roundtable, 2014
Photo from Fall 2013 Reception
Colleen Murphy, Karen Flynn, and Merle Bowen
GRID Students in Washington, DC, Oct. 1993 for AWID Conference
GRID Students with Kathy Martin and Kate Cloud, 1997
GRID Students with Kathy Martin, Kate Cloud, and Gale Summerfield, 1999

Photos of GRID Students Throughout the Years (1980-2020)

 

Highlighted Events
Event Poster 2020 Faculty Affiliate Lecture, Kathryn Anthony
Silvia Beltrametti, September 2020 Event
Dara Goldman Faculty Affiliate Lecture Feb 6 2020
International Women's Day 2020 March 9 2020
Migration Talk by Jonathan Inda December 4, 2019
Swarna Rajagopalan
Colleen Murphy Book Talk October 23 2017
WGGP Student Research Symposium September 20 2017
Turkish Studies Sympsoium
Black Lives Matter Conversation
Migration Conference
Mary Robinson
Conference poster
Womens Empowerment in International Development 2016
Karen Flynn Talk
Lenore Matthew
Poverty Simulation
Roger Thurow
Irene Tinker October 1999
Gender and Migration, 2004
Ruth Pearson Talk on Corporate Gender Responsibility, April 2006
Mircoeconterprise, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Environment March 1999
Gender and Agribusiness Project funded by USAID, 1999
1987 GRID concentration announcement
1994 Feminist workshop
1996 UN conference on year later
1998 GAP program
2000 20th anniversary celebration
2000 20th anniversary celebration 2
2003 MillerComm event poster
2004 Gender and Human Security event
2005 human security policy forum
2006 human security policy forum
2006 Rural Health Symposium
2007 women and hiv aids africa
2008 global economic crisis
2008 social dimensions on biofuels
2009 Global food security forum
2009 sustainable biofuels and human security
2009 rural economies in crisis
2010 30th anniversary celebration
2010 labor migration in China
2011 gender relations
2011 International migration of health care workers
2012 10th anniversary Due and Ferber
2012 Food Security Symposium
2013 The Last Hunger Season
2014 CAS MillerComm
2015 Establish Evelyne Accad
2015 Graduate College Focal Point on Women and Development
2015 Hosting Inaugural Annual GRID Alum Lecture
2015 International Conference on Nutrition
2016 Cross Border Conversations on Black Lives
2016 International Workshop on Climate Change
2017 Endowment created for Barbara A. Yates
2017 Turkish Studies Symposium
2018 1st International Women's Day campus celebration
2018 Teaching Transitional Justice Symposium
2019 #MeToo and academia series
2020 20th anniversary goodman fellowship
2020 40th anniversary celebration symposium
Coble Hall photo
WGGP logo small
wggp logo
2021 Lual Mayen
2022 International Women's Day Celebration

WGGP 30th Anniversary (2010)
30th Anniversary lunch concert
30th Anniversary symposium group picture
30th anniversary news release

WGGP 20th Anniversary (2000) Office Name Change from Women in International Development (WID) to Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (WGGP)
20th anniversary symposium cover
symposium schedule page 1
symposium schedule page 2
symposium schedule page 3

WID 10th Anniversary (1990)
10th anniversary newsletter page 1
10th anniversary newsletter page 2
10th anniversary newsletter page 3

Women in International Development (WID) Established (1980)
WID 1st brochure page 1
WID 1st brochure page 2
WID 1st brochure page 3
WID 1st brochure page 4

WID/WGGP Buildings Over The Years
WID began in Coble Hall until moving to International Studies Building (ISB) in August 1991
WID moved to the newly built ISB in August of 1991 and stayed until January 2017
WGGP moved to its current home in January 2017

WID/WGGP in the News
Inside Illinois 091699
Estate Gift Creates Endowed Fund, Education Generations Spring 2018
Daily Illini Oct 20 2000
Daily Illini March 12 1999
Daily Illini Nov 1997
Daily Illini Mar 7 1996
Illinois International Review Fall 2005
Illini Week March 26 1987
Illinois International Review Spring 2009

WGGP Historical Events Through the Years (1980-2020)

 

2000 Interviews with GRID Students and Alumni

Video archives of interviews from 2000 are now available digitally.  To view the individual interviews, please go to https://wggp.illinois.edu/resources/october-2000-historical-video-grid-program