About

Robyn Spears, PhD is a leading voice in the study of global Latter-day Saint women. Her research interests focus primarily on religious women of the nineteenth century. As an Institute Instructor at the Northwest Arkansas Institute of Religion, she educates, writes, studies, and interprets history full-time. 

Robyn enjoyed her childhood at the feet of the Rocky Mountains in Thatcher, Idaho and her adolescence at the feet of Superstition Mountain in Mesa, Arizona. She and her husband, Greg, raised their five children in California and Arkansas. She has a BS in Zoology and a minor in Spanish from Brigham Young University, an MA in History from the University of Arkansas, and a PhD in History from the University of Arkansas. She and her husband, Greg, live in the best kept secret: Bentonville, Arkansas.