Dialogue Gospel Study with Rebecca de Schweinitz on November 10

A Dialogue Foundation Board member and grateful co-host of Dialogue’s Gospel Study program, Rebecca de Schweinitz originally hails from Fairbanks, Alaska where she grew up the eldest, and only girl, of seven kids. With a Ph.D. in United States history from the University of Virginia, and a few other adventures under her belt, she joined the history department at BYU in 2006. Her research centers on youth and American politics. She is the author of If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality (UNC Press), Achieving the 26^th Amendment (Routledge), and a smattering of articles and book chapters—some of which explore race, gender, and/or childhood and youth in LDS history. Two of those were published by Dialogue: “Preaching the Gospel of Church and Sex: Mormon Women’s Fiction in the Young Woman’s Journal, 1889-1910” and “‘There is no Equality’: William E. Berrett, BYU, and Healing the Wounds of Racism in the Latter-day Saint Past and Present.” Rebecca lives in Provo with her husband, Peter, and three kids. (They generally spend a chunk of the summer in Alaska.) She is happiest in a kayak on a lake, hiking in the mountains, and watching soccer.