Marie Cornwall
Marie Cornwall (born 1949) is the editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, a professor of sociology and women's studies at Brigham Young University (BYU) and a former director of BYU's Women's Research Institute.
Biography
Cornwall holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Utah, a master's degree in sociology from BYU and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Minnesota.
=Career=
Besides being a member of the BYU faculty Cornwall was also a visiting professor at the University of Utah for one year.Salt Lake Tribune, Jan. 3, 2000{{full|date=December 2014}} She was a researcher for the LDS Church's Correlation Department prior to joining the BYU faculty, where she studied causes/patterns of Mormons leaving church activity for other ways of living.
Cornwall was one of the moving figures behind the growth of the Mormon Social Science Association.[http://history.utah.gov/findAids/B01010/B1010.XML History of the Mormon Social Science Association ] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130401204002/http://history.utah.gov/findaids/B01010/B1010.xml |date=2013-04-01 }}
Publications
Among other subjects Cornwall has written articles on women's suffrage, unemployment, gender roles in housekeeping, plural marriage and religion and family in such journals as Mobilization; Social Forces; Journal of Marriage and the Family and Review of Religious Research. Among other books, Cornwall edited Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives, with Tim B. Heaton and Lawrence A. Young.{{citation |title= Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives |editor1-first= Marie |editor1-last= Cornwall |editor2-first= Tim B. |editor2-last= Heaton |editor2-link= Tim B. Heaton |editor3-first= Lawrence A. |editor3-last= Young |year= 1994 |place= Urbana |publisher= University of Illinois Press |isbn= 0-252-06959-5 |oclc= 28721262 }} Along with Sherrie Mills Johnson, Cornwall has done studies critical of the view that Mormon women are submissive and degraded.[http://www.fairlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2004_Place_of_Mormon_Women.html article by Andrea Radke on Mormon women and mental health]
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Sources
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091201140447/http://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/Faculty/mc27 BYU faculty bio of Cornwall]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100621152505/https://facultyprofile.byu.edu/PublicFacultyProfile/vita/vita_mc27.pdf Cornwall's vita]
- [http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/62hka9hf9780252069598.html University of Illinois Press blurb on Cornwall]
- [http://search.barnesandnoble.com/BookSearch/results.asp?ATH=Marie+Cornwall Barnes and Noble listing of books by Cornwall]
- [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20131021194438/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-5906.2009.01484.x/abstract abstract of Cornwall's "From the Editor" piece in an issue of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion]
- [http://isbndb.com/d/person/cornwall_marie.html info on Cornwall]
- [http://squaretwo.org/Sq2ArticleWRIFarewell.html "A Farewell Salute to the Women's Research Institute of Brigham Young University" in SquareTwo, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Fall 2009)]
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