Emily Utt

Photo Credit: Jon Ryan Jensen, Church News

Emily Utt works as Historic Sites Curator for the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She specializes in historic preservation and research activities for Latter-day Saint meetinghouses, temples, and historic sites.

She frequently conducts on-site workshops and tours and lectures on the relationship between architecture and local history.

She double majored in religion and history, with a minor in sociology, at Case Western Reserve University. She holds a master’s degree in historic preservation from Goucher College, in Baltimore, Maryland.

• Deseret News, "Crawling together in basements: Historians preserve the Kirtland Temple, other church history sites"

• Media Library, Emily Utt, "Preserving the Legacy of Latter-day Saints: Florence S. Jacobsen"

Emily Utt explains the significance of an item from the time capsule retrieved from the Salt Lake Temple capstone to (left to right) Presidents Dallin H. Oaks, Russell M. Nelson, and Henry B. Eyring on May 20, 2020. Courtesy The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints