Amy Harris
February 7 Lecture
Amy Harris is a professor of history at Brigham Young University and an accredited genealogist. She currently serves as the coordinator of the Family History Bachelor’s Program. Her research focuses on families, women, and gender in eighteenth-century Britain. Her first book, Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike (Manchester, 2012) used both historical and genealogical methods to explore sibling relationships and their connections to political and social ideas of equality. Her most recent work, Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried (Oxford, 2023) uncovers family dynamics beyond couplehood and parenthood to reveal how unmarried or childless people shaped family life, childrearing, and genealogical practices in the eighteenth century. Her most recent book is Redeeming the Dead for the Maxwell Institute series, Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants (Maxwell Institute and Deseret Book, 2024).