Amy Harris, Family History Coordinator, will deliver the Forum address.
Harris' remarks will be broadcast live on BYUtv, BYUtv.org (and archived for on-demand streaming), KBYU-TV 11, Classical 89 FM, BYU Radio, and will be archived on speeches.byu.edu.
A native of Ogden, Utah, Prof. Amy Harris is a member of large, sprawling, slightly crazy family. As the youngest of nine children and the youngest of 119 cousins, she has always been fascinated with family relationships. And that fascination continues to inspire her research and teaching. After graduating in family history from BYU she earned an MA in European history at American University and a PhD in British history from the University of California, Berkeley. She also has a professional accreditation in English genealogy. She uses both her historical and genealogical training to study family relationships of the past, specifically in eighteenth-century Britain. She is particularly interested in the way family and social relationships inform one another. She has written about sibling relationships, childhood, and marriage in England as well as essays about genealogical methods and early Mormon women.
Her first book, Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England was published by Manchester University Press in 2012. She is currently working on a new book: A Single View: Family Life and the Unmarried in Georgian England, which analyzes family relations across the lifespan of never-married men and women.
Prof. Harris, an associate professor in the history department, has completed fellowships at the Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Library and at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She teaches European history, introductory genealogical methods, English paleography, advanced British genealogical methodology courses, and women’s studies. She currently serves as the director for the Family History Program at BYU.