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Derr, Jill Mulvay

 Person

biographical statement

Citation:
Wikipedia, Mar. 8, 2012: Jill Mulvay Derr (Jill C. Mulvay; Jill Mulvay; b. 1948; American history professor at BYU; raised in Salt Lake City, Utah; married to C. Brooklyn Derr, four children; bachelors degree from U of U, MA in teaching from Harvard; director of Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History, president of the Mormon History Association; published articles, Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, Women of the Covenant: The Story of Relief Society, Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry; served in church capacities)

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Jill Mulvay Derr papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8009
Scope and Contents

Contains Derr's teaching files and course materials as well as correspondence, administrative records, and other materials related to Derr's work as managing director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute.

Dates: 1977-2007

Jill Mulvay Derr course materials, 1978-2004

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains materials relating to the courses that Derr taught or had a role in developing including History 206 R Utah Women's History, History 390 R Mormon Heritage, and History 390 R/ Honors 322 R Mormon History and Culture. Includes course descriptions and outlines, syllabi and class calendars, reading lists, course suggestions and proposals, course development materials, class rolls, exams, and scholarly articles. Also contains notes and comments from students, student-submitted discussion...
Dates: 1978-2004

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History administrative records, 1989-2007

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains administrative records for the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute, including financial records, governance records, and strategy records. Financial records include budget records, a 2004 audit, information on the Mormon History Trust Fund, and fundraising records. Governance records include records from the College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences conference, minutes from meetings with the college dean, correspondence with the dean and assistant deans, especially with Dean David...
Dates: 1989-2007

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History correspondence, 1992-2005

 Sub-Series — Carton 2: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233286472], Folder: 46-52
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 6
Scope and Contents Contains both internal and external correspondence of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute on topics including publications, symposia, BYU Studies, the Eliza R. Snow project, outreach plans, and Executive Committee correspondence. Also includes Richard Bushman correspondence, chair of the Advisory Committee, relating to symposia and faculty, as well as Derr's correspondence relating to paper publications, symposia, copyrights, personal correspondence, and the transition following the...
Dates: 1992-2005

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History digital media, 2004

 Sub-Series — Carton 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233286498], Folder: 60
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 8
Scope and Contents

Contains four DVDs of lectures that were part of a 2004 lecture series entitled To Tell the Tale: Preserving the Lives of Mormon Women. Includes lectures on Relief Society, Mormon women's history, and women newspaper editors.

Dates: 2004

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History faculty files, 1987-2005

 Sub-Series — Carton 1: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233286480], Folder: 6-46
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains files for the faculty of the Joseph Smith Fielding Institute, including meeting minutes and memos, newsletters and handouts, and correspondence. Materials cover faculty retreats, productivity reports, lists of books and publications made by the faculty, and staffing and hiring records, 1987-2005.

Dates: 1987-2005

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records, 1977-2008

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Contains records of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute collected by Derr, including administrative records and faculty files. Also includes records on symposia, funding, and grants, and materials for various special projects carried out by the institute. Also contains correspondence, records on BYU Studies and Women's History Inititative Team. Includes four DVDs from a lecture series in 2004, 1977-2008.

Dates: 1977-2008

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records on BYU Studies, 1992-2005

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 5
Scope and Contents Contains records from BYU Studies relating to the Joseph Fielding Smith Insitute (JFSI) and its role as the institute's primary publisher. Materials include book lists, invoices, a review of the organization including its aims and objectives, JFSI publication projects, memorandums and correspondence about the relationship between the JFSI and BYU Studies, proposals and publication procedures, and newsletters from both organizations. Also contains correspondence, edited articles, book review...
Dates: 1992-2005

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History records on Women History Initiative Team, 1977-2008

 Sub-Series — Carton 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197233286498], Folder: 6-59
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents Contains materials related to the Women's History Initiative Team (WIT) of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute. Includes meeting minutes, strategy notes, correspondence and memorandums, programs and schedules for seminars and symposia, faculty retreat records, published articles, poetry, information on summer fellowships and photographs from a reunion, records on the Mormon Women's History Course 390 R, records from the Eliza R. Snow film project, and lists of dissertations and published...
Dates: 1977-2008

Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History special project records, 1995-2005

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8009 Series 2 Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents Contains records for special projects carried out by the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute, including records on an Eliza R. Snow documentary, Mormon Studies leadership awards and symposia, a Yale Conference entitled God, Humanity and Revelation: Perspectives from Mormon Philosophy and History, international outreach efforts, agendas and proposals of the Council on Religious Endeavors (CORE), coordination with the Brigham Young University Special Collections and church archives, Mormon...
Dates: 1995-2005

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Archival Object 10
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Subject
Letters 7
Research institutes -- Utah -- Provo 7
Memorandums 4
Publications 4
Minutes (Records) 3