Jill Mulvay Derr

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Jill Mulvay Derr is a historian for the Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was an American history professor at Brigham Young University, director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, and the president of the Mormon History Association. She is the author, co-author, or editor of several articles and books including, Women’s Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 (with Kenneth W. Godfrey and Audrey M. Godfrey), Women of Covenant: The Story of Relief Society (with Janath Russell Cannon and Maureen Ursenbach Beecher), and Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry (with Karen Lynn Davidson).