Carol Cornwall Madsen

Carol Cornwall Madsen (born 1930) is an emeritus professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) where she was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History. She also served as associate director of BYU's Women's Research Institute. She has written 50 scholarly articles and several books.

Born Carol Cornwall, she was the youngest daughter of J. Spencer Cornwall and his wife Mary Alice Haigh Cornwall. Her father was the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and her mother was a noted soloist. Carol was the youngest of seven children.

Carol Cornwall married Gordon A. Madsen in 1953. They are the parents of six children.

Madsen did undergraduate studies at the University of Utah and took one semester at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Madsen served as an associate instructor in the University of Utah's English department from 1960-1967. She then joined the Department of Continuing Education at the UofU in 1967, and in 1970 became an instructor with the Department of Independent Studies, a position she retained until 1991.

After she obtained her MA in history in 1977 Madsen became a research historian with the LDS Church Historical Department. Along with Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and Jill Mulvay Derr Madsen was one of the first three professional historians in the Church History Department assigned to work on Women's history.

She then moved to being a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History when it was formed in 1982. In 1986, shortly after receiving her Ph.D., Madsen became an associate professor in BYU's history department. She became a professor in the History Department and a Research Professor in the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute in 1994. 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.

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