Karissa Haugeberg is an associate professor of history at Tulane University. Her first book, Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois Press, 2017), traced women’s participation in antiabortion organizing in the late twentieth century. She co-edits a popular textbook, Women’s America Refocusing the Past (Oxford University Press), and is completing a second book project on the history of American nursing since 1964. Her research has been supported by the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Duke University Libraries, and the State of Louisiana. Her essays in the Journal of Women’s History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences have received best article awards.

Prof. Haugeberg’s first book, Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century (Illinois, 2017), charted the experiences of women who shaped the contemporary anti-abortion movement. The book received an honorable mention from the Western Association of Women Historians’ Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Book Prize Committee in 2018. An article from the book, “‘How Come There’s Only Men Up There?’ Catholic Women's Grassroots Anti-Abortion Activism,” received the 2016 Judith Lee Ridge Prize for the best article on women’s history. Her research was supported by grants from the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture at Duke University, and the Newcomb Institute.

This event will take place on February 9 at 4pm in room 2-105. This event will be open to the public.