Judy Elsley

I'm Dr. Judy Elsley, retired English professor, fabric artist and potter. I loved my work as a teacher and administrator, but after 26 years at Weber State University, it was time to shift gears. I retired in July 2016.

Articles

Quilts as Women’s History | Mary Bywater Cross, Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations: Treasures of Transition, and Kate Covington, ed., Gathered in Time: Utah Quilts and Their Makers, Settlement to 1950

Women’s history got short shrift when the telling of the past focused entirely on wars and laws, but increasingly, as attention is being paid to the domestic history of day-to-day lives, historians are recovering women’s…