Rachel Cope

Rachel Cope is Associate Professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. She received a PhD from Syracuse University in American History, with an emphasis in religious history and women’s history. Rachel’s research centers on female spirituality and religious experience in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She most recently co-edited a book titled The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726, published by Penn State University Press. Rachel is currently working on a book project about spiritual friendships in early America. She also serves as the assistant editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and as the assistant chair of the Council of Religious Outreach at Brigham Young University.