Lisa Olsen Tait

Lisa Olsen Tait is a historian and writer specializing in women’s history at the Church History Department. Her work focuses on Mormon women’s history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and she serves on the executive board of the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT). She has published articles in several venues, including her award-winning “The 1890s Mormon Culture of Letters and the Post-Manifesto Marriage Crisis: A New Approach to Home Literature,” BYU Studies Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2013): 99–124.