Carol Cornwall Madsen

After she obtained her MA in history in 1977 Madsen became a research historian with the LDS Church Historical Department.

She then moved to being a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History when it was formed in 1982.

She held these positions until she received emeritus status in 2002 and remained a senior research fellow with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute until it was disbanded, with various members relocating either to the Church History Department of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City to work on the Joseph Smith Papers Project or to the BYU History Department.

[4] Books by Madsen include In Their Own Words: Women and the Story of Nauvoo; Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail; Battle for the Ballot: Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah as well as An Advocate for Women: The Public Life of Emmeline B.

Madsen has also written an in-depth article on Doctrine and Covenants Section 25 and its meaning to Emma Smith over the rest of her life.

[6] Her article "'At Their Peril': Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900" was republished in Mary Ann Irwin's and James Brooks' Woman and Gender in the American West.

[7] Madsen also co-authored a chapter on women in the legal history of Utah with her daughter Lisa Madsen Pearson that was published in the book Women in Utah History: Paradigm or Paradox[8] In 2016, the Church Historian's Press released the book The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History, which was edited by Madsen, Matthew Grow, Jill Mulvay Derr and Kate Holbrook.