Rachel Cope, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University.
Dr Cope spent four weeks doing research in Manchester in spring 2010: while there, she focused on the conversion experiences of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century women. In particular, she immersed herself in the manuscript copies of Mary Fletcher's narrative. Dr Cope has a particular interest in the evolution of female narratives as they moved from manuscript to published text. She is currently beginning an article on this topic, and is also in the midst of tracing conceptions of Jesus in the private and public lives of nineteenth-century women. In addition, Dr Cope is the recipient of New England Regional Consortium Fellowship and a Bridwell Library Fellowship, each of which is enabling her to prepare her dissertation for publication as a book. She is also the copy-editor for Wesley and Methodist Studies and a member of the Mormon Women's History Initiative Team.
