Jenet Jacob Erickson is an associate professor in Church History and Doctrine in Religious Education at Brigham Young University. She received a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a master’s degree in Linguistics-TESOL at BYU, and then decided to pursue a PhD in Family Social Science from the University of Minnesota. After completing her PhD, she joined the faculty in the School of Family Life at BYU in 2007, where she taught about family processes, and the history of work and family for women.

She miraculously met and married her husband, Michael, when they were both 34 years old. She left her full-time position at BYU when they were blessed with children, LaDawn (now age 12) and Peter (now age 9). That is when really started learning about family life!

In her time away from BYU, she has been a research fellow of the Wheatley Institution and Institute for Family Studies as well as a columnist for the Deseret News. When not studying about or writing about the family, she loves singing, playing the harp, learning from and with her husband, and laughing with their children.