Carol C. Madsen

Carol Cornwall Madsen, professor emerita of BYU, received her PhD in history at the University of Utah and was employed by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History in the Church History Department. When the institute moved to BYU, she served as associate head of the Women’s Research Institute for two years and on several university committees, including the annual Women’s Conference. She also originated a course entitled “Women and the American Experience,” which she taught for many years. She has authored or edited five books and more than fifty articles on Utah and Latter-day Saint women’s history. Five of her articles and two of her books have been award winners.