Amy Harris

Assistant Professor of History
Office: 2130E JFSB
Phone number: (801) 422-6408

Schooling

• BA in History, Brigham Young University: Emphasis in British Genealogy
• MA in History, American University
• PhD in History, University of California, Berkeley
• Dissertation: Share and Share Alike: Sisters and Brothers in Georgian England

Areas of Specialty

• Great Britain since 1509, early modern Europe, sociology
• British genealogy and family history
• Early-modern and modern Britain (social and cultural)
• Women and gender history
• Early-modern and modern Europe

Languages

• Verbal and reading fluency in Swedish
• Basic reading comprehension in Norwegian, Spanish, and French

Published Materials

Papers

• "Emotion, Letters, and Apricot Jam: Love and its Manifestations among Siblings." Presented at the Mellon Consortia Conference, Berkeley, California, September 2005
• "Sibling Power Brokers: Gender, Birth Order, Marital Status and Family Politics." Presented at the Center for British Studies Conference, Berkeley, California, January 2005. (Earlier findings were also presented at the University of Massachusetts Graduate Student Conference on Power, October 2004; and Hawaii International Conference on Arts and the Humanities, January 2005.)

Book Reviews

• Review of Carol L. Sherman, The Family Crucible in Eighteenth-Century Literature, (Ashgate, 2005) and Patricia Comitini, Vocational Philanthropy and British Women’s Writing, 1790-1810, (Ashgate, 2005) Publication in Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2006

Family History Courses Taught

• Rel C 261 - Introduction to Family History (Genealogy)
• Rel C 293R - British Family History
• Hist 319 - Family in Europe
• Hist 390R - European Women's History (1500-Present)
• Hist 412 - England and Wales Before 1700 (Family History)
• Hist 413 - England and Wales Since 1700 (Family History)

Special Projects

• Independent researcher, BYU History Department, research in the Bancroft Library covering nineteenth-century horticulture and Utah agriculture, 2001-2002
• Research assistant, BYU History Department, research covering early modern English probate and church records, 1997-1998