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…
Faculty and Staff… Images of Women’s Sports, Decade by Decade 23 Jul 20251 Aug 2025 Early on this project, I reflected on the value of photographs as historical evidence, which "can be especially significant in answering historical questions on which other evidence is silent." But…
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… Before They Were Famous 26 Feb 2025 At some point last fall, it struck me that the Bethel College of the late Seventies and early Eighties was home to a remarkable list of women who studied and/or…
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…
Sources… From the Archives… College Women in 1992 15 Jan 2025 What was it like to be a woman studying at Bethel? That's an obviously important question to ask, in a history project that aspires "to tell a version of our…
Sources… From the Archives… Seminary Women in 1994 10 Jan 2025 While my sabbatical is now over, I'll continue to conduct research this spring and finish writing my women's history of Bethel University over the summer. I've been very happy with…
Faculty and Staff… The Women’s History Month Devotionals 26 Nov 202429 Jan 2025 The beginning of March "means more than approaching midterms and spring break," The Clarion informed Bethel students that month in 1987; "it also means National Women's History Month." Both "a…
Faculty and Staff… The Origins of the Bethel Nursing Program 13 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 As the 1970s began, Elaine Peterson left the western Wisconsin farm where she'd grown up and came to St. Paul, Minnesota to study for her career. She didn't head for…
Rough Drafts… Anti-Feminism at Bethel in the 1970s 4 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 While the Seventies are often remembered as an era when even theologically conservative Christians began to rethink assumptions about women's roles in family, church, and society, it was also an…
The Women of Bethel 