By appointment

• Hist 404. US-Southern States Family History Research

• Hist 120. The United States through 1877
• Hist 377. American Social History
• Hist 400. The Family and the Law in American History
• Hist 404. US-Southern States Family History Research
• Hist 406R. North American Family History
• Hist 565. Sources and Problems in Latter-day Saint History
• Rel C 261.
• Rel C 262.

Kathryn Daynes, an assistant professor in the Department of History, joined the faculty at BYU in 1994. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her undergraduate work was started at BYU and completed at DePauw University. Her areas of specialty are U.S. family history, with emphasis on the Southern States, and U.S. social history. Having written her dissertation on Mormon plural wives in nineteenth- century Utah, she has published articles on Mormon plural marriage. In addition to continuing research in that field, she is also working on a project about marriage patterns in Tennessee before and after the Civil War. She is married to Bill Daynes, professor of political science at BYU, and they have three children.

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