The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies

This endowed chair was established with a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. The endowed chair funds research and teaching in feminist studies, as well as provides support for graduate fellowships.

Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, was honored as the inaugural appointee to the Presidential Chair in 2017.

In 2021, Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer was appointed the new Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies. Learn more about Professor Schaeffer here.

If you have questions about a donation to the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Endowment, please contact Cari Napoles, Senior Director of Development for the Humanities Division, by phone: (831) 459-4713, or by email at cmnapole@ucsc.edu