Rachel Cope is an associate professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. She received a PhD in American History, with an emphasis in women's history and religious history, from Syracuse University. Rachel has published several articles on American women's spirituality and conversion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which have appeared in various edited volumes and journals. She also co-edited several volumes, including: The Writings of Elizabeth Webb: A Quaker Missionary in America, 1697–1726 (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019); Mormon Women's History: Beyond Biography (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017); Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820 (Routledge, 2015), a four-volume collection of manuscript records documenting the lives of early American and British families. Rachel is also an associate editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies and is serving on the organizing committee of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. In 2025, Rachel's devotional book, The Slow Work of God, was published by Deseret Book. As a vesicovaginal fistula survivor, Rachel is deeply committed to raising awareness of and funding for obstetric fistula victims throughout the developing world and deeply values her working relationship with the Worldwide Fistula Fund.