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The Women of Bethel

A Digital History of a Christian University

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Category: Quantitative

Faculty and Staff…

Women and STEM at Bethel

22 Sep 2025
We're now in the final stage of this project. I've concluded archival research, I'm getting final feedback on my main essays and writing a short conclusion, and I'm making plans…
Quantitative…

The Quantitative History of Women’s Enrollment at Bethel

13 May 2025
It was one of my first questions when I conceived the idea of writing a women's history of Bethel, yet I haven't fully addressed it yet: How has women's enrollment…
Faculty and Staff…

From the Archives… Social Science Studies

21 Feb 2025
Now that I'm back to teaching a typical spring load of three courses, I've had less time to dedicate to research. But I am setting aside a few hours a…
Faculty and Staff…

The Gender Demographics of the Bethel Faculty: 1986-2024

25 Sep 20249 Dec 2024
In part one of this brief series, we saw that the share of women on the Bethel College faculty actually declined through the Sixties before starting to grow slowly during…
Faculty and Staff…

The Gender Demographics of the Bethel Faculty: 1958-1985

24 Sep 20249 Dec 2024
"In the concept of the Christian body," wrote Carl Lundquist during his last decade as Bethel president, "every member is important and essential to the others. There are no 2nd.…
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Bethel’s Most Gendered Majors

16 Sep 20249 Dec 2024
Have Bethel's women been more likely to study certain fields than others? Have some majors historically been dominated by women, or by men? Has that changed over the years? I'm…

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