Marie Cornwall

Marie Cornwall is Professor Emerita, Sociology Department, Brigham Young University. She taught sociology courses for over thirty years at BYU and was for a time the director of the Women’s Research Institute. She taught the sociology of gender and courses on the family and social change with a focus on documenting the changing lives of women in Utah and the United States. She helped establish the Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Womens Legacy Archive at the University of Utah Marriott Library, conducting dozens of life history interviews with women born in the early part of the twentieth century. Since retiring, she has been writing the histories of her women ancestors who became Latter-day Saints between 1841 and 1861 in Ireland, Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States.