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 MHA Mormon History Association
Friday, June 9   |   1:00 pm EDT

Opening Plenary

Richard Newman
Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology

 MHA Mormon History Association
Friday, June 9   |   2:30 pm EDT

Session 1H: Beginnings and More Beginnings: The LDS Young Women’s Organization, 1870-2020

Charlotte Hansen Terry Chair
University of California, Davis

Lisa Olsen Tait
Church History Department

Amber Taylor
Church History Department

Anne Berryhill
Church History Department

 MHA Mormon History Association
Friday, June 9   |   6:00 pm EDT

Session 2H: The History and Impact of the Joseph Smith Papers

Grant Underwood Chair
Brigham Young University

Grant Underwood
Brigham Young University

Matt Grow
Church History Department

Ron Esplin
Church History Department

Matthew C. Godfrey
Church History Department

Sharalyn D. Howcroft
Church History Department

Elder Kyle S. McKay
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

 MHA Mormon History Association
Friday, June 9   |   8:00 pm EDT

Session 3H: A Tribute to Lester Bush on the 50th Anniversary of the Article that Changed the Church

Gregory A. Prince Chair
Independent Historian

Gregory A. Prince
Independent Historian

Darius Gray
Salt Lake City, Utah

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   1:00 pm EDT

Smith-Pettit Lecture

Karin Wulf
Professor of History, Brown University, Director & Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   2:30 pm EDT

Session 4H: The Rise, Fall, and Potential Resurgence of Mormon Democrats and Religious Rhetoric

Jeffrey Mahas Chair
Church History Department

Angela Bell
Lone Star College CyFair

Benjamin E. Park
Sam Houston State University

Matt Harris
Colorado State University- Pueblo

Jana Riess
Religion News Service

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   4:15 pm EDT

Plenary & Luncheon

Sara Patterson
Baron Professor of Social Justice Education, Professor of Theological Studies and Gender Studies, Hanover College

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   6:00 pm EDT

Session 5H: Battlefields to Temple Grounds: Latter-day Saints in Guam and Micronesia

Mary Jane Woodger Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University

Devan Jensen
BYU Religious Studies Center

Casey Paul Griffiths
Brigham Young University

Clint D. Christensen
Church History Department

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   8:00 pm EDT

Session 6H: Influential Individuals in Twentieth Century Mormon History

Sara Patterson Chair
Hanover College

J.B. Haws
Brigham Young University

Steven Peck
Brigham Young University

Patrick Mason
Utah State University

 MHA Mormon History Association
Saturday, June 10   |   11:00 pm EDT

Presidential Banquet

Matthew Bowman
MHA President & Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University


Presentation Audio Recordings Return to Top
SESSION 1A

Language of Beginnings: Book of Mormon Translators and Globalization

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye Chair
LDS Church History Department

David Golding
LDS Church History Department

Ryan Saltzgiver
LDS Church History Department

Zoya Gulko
Translator, Ukrainian

Hasvira Minasaryan
Translator, Armenian

Murat Cakir
Translator, Turkish

Gvido Senkans
Translator, Latvian

Minnie Mae Wilding-Diaz
Translator, American Sign Language

SESSION 1B

The Sacerdotal Home: Latter-day Saint Families and their Sacred Objects in Practice and Memory

Jonathan Stapley Chair and Comments
Bellevue, WA

John Engler
Utah State University

Cathy Gilmore
Utah State University

Millie Tullis
Utah State University

SESSION 1C

New Insights into Brigham Young

John G. Turner Chair and Comments
George Mason University

LaJean Purcell Carruth
Church History Library

Ken Adkins
Church History Department

Bryce Gessell
Southern Virginia University

SESSION 1D

Scandinavian LDS Convert-Immigrant Women in Utah

Jennifer Black Chair
Boise State University

Michelle Graabek Comments
European University Institute

Amanda Reece

Rebecca Driggs
Brigham Young University

Anna Taylor Smith
Brigham Young University

SESSION 1E

Doctrine, Discourse & Genre

Matthew C. Godfrey Chair
Church History Department

El Call
Lancaster University

Jared G. Bennett
Utah State University

Garrett Maxwell
Brigham Young University

SESSION 1F

The Materiality and Paratexts of the Early Sacred Texts of Mormonism

Jared Hickman Chair
John Hopkins University

Sonia Hazard Comments
Florida State University

Elizabeth Fenton
The University of Vermont

Robin Scott Jensen
Joseph Smith Papers

Ann Taves
UC Santa Barbara

SESSION 1G

Wounds and Worship: An Examination of Trauma, Violence, and Military Expansion in the lives of Latter-day Saints

Patrick Mason Chair and Comments
Utah State University

CarrieAnne Simonini DeLoach
Reinhardt University

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Washington University in St. Louis

Amy Hoyt
Victor Valley College

SESSION 2A

Early Morminism in Britain, Ireland, and Wales

Matthew Rasmussen Chair
Church History Department

Jacob D. Rawlins
Brigham Young University

Samuel Benson
Brigham Young University

Hadleigh Weber
University of New Hampshire

Elizabeth Mawlam
Claremont Graduate University

SESSION 2B

The "Resurrection of the Mormons" and the French Années Folles

Janiece Johnson Chair
Brigham Young University

Corry Cropper
Brigham Young University

Carter Charles
Brigham Young University

Heather Belnap
Brigham Young University

SESSION 2C

Mormon Marriage and Sealing Practices

Samuel Newton Chair
University of Idaho

Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law School

Kathleen Flake
University of Virginia

Noel A. Carmack
Utah State University Eastern – Price

SESSION 2D

"Women’s Rights Women": Restoration, Rhetoric, and Remembering the Roots of Activism

Lisa Olsen Tait Chair and Comments
Church History Department

Lori Motzkus Wilkinson
Salt Lake Community College

Janelle M. Higbee
Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT)

Rebekah Ryan Clark
Better Days; Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team

SESSION 2E

"Seek Ye Out of the Best Books": Literary Beginnings and the Shape of Mormon Understandings

Kylie Nielson Turley Chair
Brigham Young University

Hannah Rushton Stott
BYU-Idaho/Idaho State University

Ian McLaughlin
BYU Law

Conor B. Hilton
University of Iowa

SESSION 2F

Let’s Begin Again: Critical Reflections on Researching Mormonism Internationally

Brittany Romanello Chair
Arizona State University

Alison Halford
Coventry University, Coventry, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Hazel O’Brien
South East Technological University, Ireland

Vinna Chintaram
UNC Chapel Hill

SESSION 2G

Slavery and Abolition in Civil War Era Utah

Dwain Coleman Chair and Comments
University of North Alabama

W. Paul Reeve
University of Utah

Jordan Watkins
Brigham Young University

Andrea G. Radke-Moss
Brigham Young University-Idaho

SESSION 3A

Roundtable on North American Northeast Area “Field Activities” Relating to Mormon “Beginnings”

D. Brent Smith Chair and Moderator
North American Northeast Area Church History Adviser

Elizabeth Heath Chair and Moderator
Church History Department

Richard Bushman
New York City

Claudia Bushman
New York City

Helen K. Warner
Brampton, Ontario

Michelle Larsen
New York City

G. Eric Jarvis & Catherine Jarvis
McGill University, Montreal

SESSION 3B

Mormonism and Mexico - A Reflection on NEH’s Summer Institute of Religion in the Borderlands

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto Chair and Comments
Montana State University

Stephanie Griswold
Claremont Graduate University

Thomas W. Murphy
Edmonds College

Cristina Rosetti
Utah Tech University

Hovan Lawton
Utah State University

Ricardo Osario Jr.
Independent Scholar

Rex Wilkins
University of Arizona

Amber Taylor
Church History Department

Jessie Christensen
BYU Library

Brittany Romanello
Arizona State University

SESSION 3C

Nineteenth Century Dreams and Visions

Alex Baugh Chair
Brigham Young University

Casey P. Griffiths Comments
Brigham Young University

Mary Jane Woodger
Brigham Young University

Michelle Graabek
European University Institute

Stephen Fleming
Anaheim, CA

SESSION 3D

Mormon Women and Female Identity in the Nineteenth Century

Sasha Coles Chair
Penn State University

Marian Peck Rees
Sandy, UT

Constance L. Lieber
Salt Lake City, UT

Romney Burke
West Linn, OR

SESSION 3E

Mormon Feminism and Queer Mormonism

Alecia Hart Chair
Independent Scholar

Adille Rigoni Massimini
Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Natalie Malter
Harvard University

Kristin Perkins
Millbrook, NY

SESSION 3F

Ritual Practice

Kris Wright Chair and Comments
Princeton University

Robyn Spears
University of Arkansas

David W. Grua
Joseph Smith Papers

Jonathan A. Stapley
Bellevue, WA

SESSION 3G

Circles of Secrecy: Analyzing secrecy in early Mormon practices—and their influence today

Kif Augustine Chair
Brigham Young University

Jedediah Rogers Comments
University of Utah Press

Stirling Adams
Independent

Cheryl L. Bruno
Seaside, CA

Todd M. Compton
Independent Historian

SESSION 4A

Insights into the First Vision

J.B. Haws Chair
Brigham Young University

Richard Saunders
Southern Utah University

Kyle Beshears
University of Mobile

William Perez
Florida State University

Maxine Hanks
Independent Scholar

SESSION 4B

Kate Holbrook and the Future of Women’s History

Matt Grow Chair
Church History Department

Matt Grow
Church History Department

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Washington University in St. Louis

Sasha Coles
Penn State University

SESSION 4C

Their Zion/There, Zion: Narrating Community and Place Among Haitian and Latinx LDS Communities

Vinna Chintaram Chair
UNC Chapel Hill

Carter Charles Comments
Brigham Young University

Rex Wilkins & Ricardo Osario, Jr.
The University of Arizona, Claremont Graduate University

Brittany Romanello
Arizona State University

SESSION 4D

Recording New Beginnings: Women at Moments of Change

Kif Augustine Chair
Brigham Young University

Amber Taylor Comments
Church History Department

Holly Miller
University of Colorado Boulder

Janika Isakson Dillon
Northeastern University

Jennifer Black
Boise State University

SESSION 4E

The Devil’s in the Details: The Influence of Formal and Popular Demonology on Early and Modern Mormonism

Mary Clements Chair

John Turner Comments
George Mason University

Stephen Hepworth
Church History Library

Manuel W. Padro
Independent Reseacher

Shiloh Logan
Claremont Graduate University

SESSION 4F

After the Massacre at Mountain Meadows: New Books, New Interpretations

Elise Boxer Chair
University of South Dakota

W. Paul Reeve Comments
University of Utah

Barbara Jones Brown
Signature Books

Richard E. Turley

Janiece Johnson

SESSION 4G

Indigenous and Mormon Connections

Farina King Chair and Comments
University of Oklahoma

Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Brigham Young University

Meagan A. Evans
University of Oklahoma

Charlotte Hansen Terry
University of California, Davis

SESSION 5A

Indigenous Beginnings: Shoshone and Haudenosaunee Contributions to Church History

David Grua Chair
Church History Department

Carrie Garrow, J.D., M.P.P.
Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, Akwesasne, NY

Danielle Mayberry, J.D.
Western Shoshone, Massena, New York

Melissa A. Smith
Syracuse University

SESSION 5B

The Work of the Joseph Smith Papers: A Roundtable

Nathan Waite Chair
Church History Department

Robin Scott Jensen
Church History Department

Jessica M. Nelson
Church History Department

Jeffrey Mahas
Church History Department

Elizabeth Kuehn
Church History Department

Mark Ashurst-McGee
Church History Department

SESSION 5C

Sacred Unity: Gathering the Stories of Native Mormons

Thomas Murphy Chair and Comments
Edmonds College

Sujey Vega
Arizona State University

Shane Castillo Manning
Arizona State University

Elise Boxer
University of South Dakota

SESSION 5D

Narratives as Foundation for Latino LDS History

Ignacio M. Garcia Chair and Comments
Brigham Young University

Sarai Silva
Brigham Young University

Paul A. Guajardo
Brigham Young University

Ignacio M. Garcia
Brigham Young University

Richard Oman
Senior Curator, Museum of Church History, retired

SESSION 5E

Gender, Race, and Discourses of Family in Mormon History

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto Chair and Comments
Montana State University

Makoto Hunter
University of California, Santa Barbara

Issac Barnes May & S. Spencer Wells
Yale Law School (May); University of Southern Utah (Wells)

SESSION 5F

Silence, Violence, and Polygamy

Blair Hodges Chair and Comments

Jaclyn Foster
University of Montana

Brooke LeFevre
Baylor University

Cristina Rosetti
Utah Tech University

SESSION 5G

Visual Images of Joseph Smith

Heather Belnap Chair
Brigham Young University

Nathan Rees Comments

Nancy Ross & Lauren DiSalvo
Utah Tech University

Lachlan Mackay
Nauvoo, IL

Curtis G. Weber
Saratoga Springs, UT

SESSION 6A

Shifting Discourse and Experiences with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Jana Riess Chair
Religion News Service

Heather J. Stone & Alecia Hart
Independent Scholars

Nicole Isaac
Neal A. Maxwell Institute

Janice Hila
Baltimore, MD

SESSION 6B

Transnational Crossings

Ryan A. Davis Chair and Comments
Illinois State University

Thomas W. Murphy
Edmonds College

Jessie Christensen
BYU Library

Hovan Lawton
Utah State University

SESSION 6C

Emerging Genres of Mormonism

Conor B. Hilton Chair
University of Iowa

Emma Tueller Stone
University of Cambridge

Kent Larsen
Hunter College

Barrett Burgin
The Glass Lookers

SESSION 6D

Early Morminism

D. Brent Smith Chair
North American Northeast Area Church History Adviser

Christian Goodwille Comments
Director and Curator of Special Collections, Hamilton College

Bruce A. Van Orden
Springville, UT

Michael W. Homer
Attorney

Rick Grunder
Lafayette, NY

Jared Halverson
Brigham Young University

SESSION 6E

Mormon History Careers Outside the Academy

Blair Hodges Chair
Fireside with Blair Hodges

Ardis E. Parshall
Keepapitchinin

Barbara Jones Brown
Signature Books

Blair Hodges
Fireside with Blair Hodges

SESSION 6F

Context, Composition, and Reception of Joseph Smith’s Texts

Robin Scott Jensen Chair
Church History Department

Christopher C. Smith
Albany, NY

Susan Staker
Independent Scholar

Colby Townsend
Indiana University Bloomington

Greer Bates Cordner
Boston University

SESSION 6G

Sacred Space and Environment

Matthew McBride Chair
Church History Department

Dwain Coleman
University of North Alabama

Emily Peck
New Haven, CT

Page Johnson & Sam Palfreyman
Independent Researcher, Church History Department

David L. Cook
Mendon, NY