An Interview with Brittany Chapman, “Women of Faith in the Latter-days” (Episode 27)

Summary: Brittany Chapman claims St. Louis, Missouri as her hometown and has overseas experience teaching children English in Taiwan and working in Special Education. She attended her first two years of college at Southern Virginia University, a small liberal arts college astride the Blue Ridge mountains, where she studied performing arts. After transferring to BYU, she graduated in humanities with an English emphasis and music minor. Brittany attended the University of Leicester in Leicester, England and graduated with an MA in Victorian Studies. Her Thesis focused on women's life writings (diaries and autobiography) and Utah woman suffrage, club movements, and plural marriage, using the experience of one woman--Ruth May Fox--to illustrate these larger social movements. Through this project, she got to know people at the LDS Church History Library, where she eventually interned and then was hired full-time. Brittany now works at the Church History Library with the public and specialize in LDS women's history. In this interview, Kirk Caudle interviews Brittany Chapman about the Church's "Women of Faith" project, reasons women had for entering into polygamy, and why the history of LDS women is often neglected.

An Interview with Brittany Chapman, “Women of Faith in the Latter-days” (Episode 27)

Directory

Click for all Categories