LDS Women Converts: Journeys from Scandinavia

This lecture will consist of three presentations.

Julie Allen will present Sisters in Zion: Scandinavian Convert-Immigrant Women in Pleasant Grove. She is Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature at BYU. Her book Danish but Not Lutheran (2017) examines how Danish society reacted to conversions to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 19th century.

Becca Driggs will present From Fjords to Fields: the Journeys of Early Swedish Mormon Settlers. She is a Kennedy Center Student Research Fellow, pursuing a BA in history and a minor in Global Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on suffrage, polygamy, and the religious lives of Utah women.

Sarah Reed will present “As many rare flowers as you can bring”: Anna Widtsoe’s Mormon Norwegian Immigration Letters. She is Assistant Professor of History at BYU where she teaches immigration and family history. Her research areas include German-American studies, Scandinavian-American studies, Mormon literature, and women writers.

Part of our fall 2022 lecture series, "The Global Religious Experience."

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