Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder is the nineteenth- century women’s history specialist at the LDS Church History Department in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has co- authored three collections of women’s writings and written a narrative history of Emma Smith. Reeder grew up playing under the quilts her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother sewed, and has an innate interest in folk art. At George Mason University, where she earned her PhD in American history, Reeder studied religious history, memory, and material culture.