Kathryn M. Daynes
Kathryn M. Daynes is Associate Professor of History Emerita at Brigham Young University and serves on the Church History Board of BYU Studies Quarterly. Her book More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System received the Best Book of the Year on Mormon History award for 2001 from the Mormon History Association and the Best Book award for 2001 from the Utah State Historical Society. She has published a number of articles and chapters in her specialty and is now engaged in two book projects that continue her study of plural marriage. In 2008–2009 she served as president of the Mormon History Association.
BYU Studies Publications
- Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy, Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
- Plural Marriage in St. George: A Summary and an Invitation
- Probing the High Prevalence of Polygyny in St. George, 1861–1880: An Introduction
- Striving to Live the Principle in Utah’s First Temple City: A Snapshot of Polygamy in St. George, Utah, in June 1880
- Three books about plural wives and polygamists