About Us

Karissa Haugeberg is the Eva-Lou Joffrion Edwards Newcomb Professor in History at Tulane University. Her first book, Women against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century (Illinois, 2017) traced the forty-year history of the contemporary US anti-abortion movement. Her work has appeared in the Middle West Review, the Journal of Urban Studies, the Journal of Women’s History and the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. She is completing a book on the history of US nursing since 1964. With Cornelia Hughes Dayton, Haugeberg edits the textbook Women’s America: Refocusing the Past (Oxford); the tenth edition will be published in 2025. At Tulane, Haugeberg teaches classes on US women’s history, legal history, and the history of medicine.

Clare Daniel is Senior Professor of Practice and Director of Research at Tulane University’s Newcomb Institute. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of New Mexico. Her book, Mediating Morality: The Politics of Teen Pregnancy in the Post-Welfare Era (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017), charts a shift in the political and popular discourse about adolescent pregnancy in the wake of the 1996 U.S. welfare reform policy. Her work on reproductive politics has also appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, American Journal of Public Health, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Women’s Health Issues, Feminist Media Studies, Social Sciences, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is also co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (Athabasca University Press, 2024). Her opinion pieces have been published in The Advocate, The Hill, and Ms., among others. She received the 2020 Coalition Builder Award from the National Women’s Studies Association for her work with the New Orleans Maternal and Child Health Coalition. She is also a founding editor of the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online digital guide, which received the 2024 Open Scholarship Award from the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute.

Kate Baldwin is a scholar and teacher who specializes in comparative literary and cultural histories. Her first book, Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters between Black and Red, remaps black American modernism by addressing the involvement of African-American intellectuals with Soviet communism and a Russian intellectual heritage. Her most recent book, The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side (2016), examines the relationships between domestic space and cultural diplomacy during the Cold War. Looking at midcentury design, film, advertising, fashion, and literature, The Racial Imaginary shows how structures of feeling associated with U.S. domesticity were taken up, championed, reconstituted, and resisted in the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s. Baldwin’s new book on women, race, and work developed from a course she started teaching a decade ago called “Motherhood and its Discontents.” Her articles chronicling these issues have been published by the Huffington Post, The Hill, Quartz, Global Post, and Truth-Out.

Sarah M. Hedgecock is the Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow at Tulane. Her work engages the fields of religious, childhood, and gender studies, and she is currently at work on a book project about nostalgia, relationality, and white American evangelical girlhood from the Cold War to the present day. Her work has been supported by the American Examples program at the University of Alabama and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, as well as research grants from Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College and the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Sarah received a Ph.D. in religion at Columbia University and holds a B.A. in anthropology from Princeton University.

Darcy Roake is a Unitarian Universalist Minister who is a PhD candidate in history at Tulane University with a focus on the reproductive health, rights, and justice movements. Reverend Roake was formerly the Minister at Community Church Unitarian Universalist, a sanctuary congregation in New Orleans, LA. She has a wide background in social justice and pastoral care in settings as varied as Oxfam America, Amnesty International, the United Nations, the Navajo Nation Public Defender’s Office, Massachusetts General Hospital, Planned Parenthood’s National Clergy Advocacy Board, and the Unitarian Universalist Association. Darcy received a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University and graduated with a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. She has published essays in Guernica, and The New Orleans Advocate, among other venues; was named a “Faith Leader to Watch in 2016” by the Center for American Progress and is a former Mellon and current Sawyer and Monroe Fellow. Rev. Darcy proudly continues her scholarship and community ministry, focusing on reproductive justice, in Louisiana.