Rachel Cope

Bio: Rachel Cope received her PhD in American History (with an emphasis in American Religious history and American Women’s history) from Syracuse University, and a MA and BA in American History from Brigham Young University. Her dissertation, titled, “‘In Some Places a Few Drops and Other Places a Plentiful Shower’: the Religious Impact of Revivalism on Early-Nineteenth-Century New York Women,” won the Outstanding Dissertation Prize from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Rachel was the Research Editorial Fellow at BYU Studies from 2009-2010, and was a visiting fellow at the Manchester Wesley Research Centre during the Spring of 2010. She has also been the recipient of a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, a Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant from Oberlin College, a Bridwell Library Fellowship from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, the Ruth R. and Allison L. Miller Fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society and a Gest Fellowship from Haverford College. Each of these fellowships has enabled her study of women and conversion in the first half of the nineteenth century. 
 
Courses taught: Doctrine and Covenants, Church History, Mormon Women’s History            
 
Areas of Expertise: Women’s History, Religious History in Antebellum America
 
Research Interests: Women’s Religious Experiences, Conversion, Revivalism, Lived Religion, Print Culture, Sanctification, Methodism, and the connections between faith and history