Charlotte Hansen Terry

Charlotte Hansen Terry is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. Her dissertation, titled “Mormons, Pacific Islanders, and the Boundaries of Belonging in the Age of Empire,” explores Mormon missionization efforts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and responses to these efforts by Pacific Islanders and their governments, U.S. imperial agents, and other missionary organizations. She traces white Mormon and Pacific Islander attempts to define and expand racial, religious, familial, and national belonging. She completed her MA in U.S. History at the University of Utah in 2015, where she focused on women’s history and religious history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Prior to her Ph.D., she worked at the LDS Church History Library on the women’s history team and on the Joseph Smith Papers.