Faculty and Staff Turning Points in the Women’s History of Bethel 29 Jul 2025 In addition to teaching undergraduates at Bethel, I also enjoy frequent chances to teach adult students at churches, senior living communities, libraries, museums, and other sites. Since they tend to…
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…
Announcements… Wrapping Up Our Oral History Project 28 Mar 2025 You may have noticed that not much has happened at this blog in recent weeks. While I expect that to change in April-May, as more time opens up in my…
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… 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.…
Quantitative… 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…
The Women of Bethel 