Research Interests
Haugeberg is completing a manuscript on the history of women anti-abortion activists in the United States. Women to the Rescue: Leaders, Martyrs, and Foot Soldiers in the Campaign to End Abortion (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press), traces the forty-year history of the contemporary U.S. anti-abortion movement, from the 1960s into the first decade of the twenty-first century. Haugeberg traces how women leaders shaped and were influenced by the political and religious transformations in American life. Drawing upon oral histories, organizational records, and the personal papers of abortion providers, Haugeberg offers that the far-right bent of the movement was neither inevitable nor uncontested: many of the first women who joined the movement identifies as political liberals, agreed with many of the principles of the women’s liberation movement, and supported the expansion of welfare programs.

Haugeberg has begun a second project on the history of nursing in the United States. This book will examine how the nursing profession engaged the resurgent feminist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. She will draw upon medical literature, nursing curricula.

Teaching Interests
U.S. women and gender to 1830 and1830-present; history of medicine in the U.S.; history of conservative women in the U.S.; history of sexuality in the U.S.; history of reproductive rights in the U.S. In each of these courses, I teach students how to use archival sources so that they may draw upon the rich manuscript collections housed in New Orleans archives. In Spring 2014, Haugeberg will offer a service-learning course that will enable students to document the history of abortion in New Orleans before 1973. Haugeberg edits a journal featuring undergraduate essays on women and gender; it will soon be available on the Newcomb College Institute website.