Amy Harris

Amy Harris is a native of Ogden, Utah. Without any effort on her part, she was raised by spectacularly good parents and particularly stellar siblings, a blessing she is daily grateful for. She began filling out pedigree charts when she was six or seven and has never lost her love of the past and her interest in family relations. A professor of history and family history at BYU, Amy’s research focuses on families, women, and gender in eighteenth-century Britain, though she has also written on family and genealogy in the Latter-day Saint context. In 2017 she delivered a BYU forum talk about genealogical consciousness titled, somewhat inexplicably, “How dead cats, your siblings, eighteenth-century English clergy, making lists, TED talks, evolutionary biology, Susa Young Gates, and my mom can save the world from being utterly wasted.” Her most recent work, A Single View: Family Life and the Unmarried in Georgian England will be published by Oxford University Press next year. Amy currently serves as coordinator for BYU’s Family History bachelor’s program.