Update from Brett Whalen, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Needless to say, as History continues to wrestle with the implications of COVID-19, many of the department’s initiatives for supporting undergraduate research and travel remain temporarily suspended. Nevertheless, on 22 October, History celebrated the second annual University Research Week faculty lecture on research in progress when Professor Katie Turk gave behind-the-scenes look into her new book project, “A Dangerous Sisterhood: The Lost History of the National Organization for Women.” In this well attended remote lecture, organized by Meghan Prabhu, the History department undergraduate liaison for the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR), Professor Turk shared her experience of digging into the NOW archives to recover a sense of organization’s “big tent” early history, before later developments like the ERA began to divide NOW’s supporters.