Welcoming Reception Plenary: "The Document Diggers & Their Discoveries" (MHA '86) v. "The Conman & His Forgeries" (MHA '21) Thirty-fifth Anniversary Panel on the Mark Hofmann Case
Barbara Jones Brown Moderator
Mormon History Association
Sandra Tanner
Editor, Tracking the White Salamander: The Story of Mark Hofmann, Murder, and Forged Mormon Documents (1986)
Jeffery Johnson
Retired archivist, Church History Library and Utah State Archives (1969-2008)
Curt Bench
Rare document dealer, Benchmark Books
Shannon Flynn
Gilbert, Arizona
Allen Roberts
Co-author, Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (1988)
Richard E. Turley Jr.
Author, Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case (1992)
Jared Hess and Tyler Measom
Co-directors, “Murder Among the Mormons” (2021)
Opening Plenary: “From Ancestral Ute Lands to Parley’s Park to the Olympic Park: Generations of Resilience”
Forrest Cuch
Former director, Utah Division of Indian Affairs; Former trustee, Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
Sandra Morrison
Park City historian and Curator, Alf Engen Ski Museum, Utah Olympic Park
Session 1A: First Vision to Settling the West: C.C.A. Christensen’s Artistic Visions
Cynthia Connell Chair and Comment
Provo, Utah
Jennifer Champoux
Northeastern University
Darren Parry and Devan Jensen
Northwestern Band Shoshone Nation and BYU Religious Studies Center
Nathan Rees
University of West Georgia
Membership Luncheon Plenary: The Hill Cumorah — Restoring a Sacred Site
Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr.
Church Historian and Recorder,
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Session 2A: Reexamining Biography as Mormon History: New Questions, New Purposes, New Insights
Janelle Higbee
Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team
Chair and Comment
Sherilyn Farnes
Texas Christian University
Amy Tanner Thiriot
BYU-Idaho/ University of Dundee
Ardis E. Parshall
Keepapitchinin’
Session 3A: Evolving Views on Race, Lineage, and the Status of Black People within the LDS Church
Darron T. Smith Chair
Independent Scholar
Farina King Comment
Northeastern State University
Matthew Harris
Colorado State University – Pueblo
Cameron McCoy
United States Air Force Academy
Newell Bringhurst
Visalia, CA
Session 4A: Roundtables: New Directions and Questions for American Indian AND Mormon Histories
P. Jane Hafen and Brenden Rensink Moderators and Panelists
University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Brigham Young University
Farina King
Northeastern State University
Elise Boxer
University of South Dakota
Erika Bsumek
University of Texas at Austin
Thomas Murphy
Edmonds College
Michalyn Steele
Brigham Young University
Lori Taylor
Salt Lake City, Utah
Michael P. Taylor
Brigham Young University
Session 5A: Saints and Suffrage: Revisiting the Movement After 150 Years
Andrea Radke-Moss Chair and Comment
Brigham Young University, Idaho
Rebekah Clark
Better Days 2020
Tiffany Taylor Bowles
Church History Museum
Tiffany Hunter Greene
Better Days 2020
Katherine Kitterman
Better Days 2020
Session 6A: Roundtable: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects
Mark Ashurst-McGee Moderator
Church History Department
Jared Hickman
Johns Hopkins University
Christopher James Blythe
Brigham Young University
Amy Easton-Flake
Brigham Young University
Matthew Grey
Brigham Young University
Richard Bushman
New York City, New York
David Grua
Joseph Smith Papers
Gerrit Dirkmaat
Brigham Young University
David Golding
Church History Department
Don Bradley
Springville, Utah
Smith-Pettit Lecture: "Jesus en las Americas: Exploring Latter-day Saint Latinx Politics and Culture"
Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh
Azusa Pacific University
Roundtable: Reconstruction and Mormon America
Clyde A. Milner II Moderator
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Brian Cannon
Brigham Young University
Patrick Mason
Utah State University
Christine Talbot
University of Northern Colorado
Brett D. Dowdle
Church History Department
The Historical Evolution of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint in Quebec, Canada
Sandra Pallin Moderator
Toronto, CAN
G. Eric Jarvis
McGill University
Catherine Jarvis
McGill University
Laurent M. Leclerc
Montreal, Quebec, CDA
Texts and Imagined Communities
Charlotte Hansen Terry Chair
University of California, Davis
Michelle Louise Graabek
European University Institute
Benjamin Child
Colgate University
John Hilton III
Brigham Young University
Mormonisms in the Global South
Spencer W. McBride
Joseph Smith Papers
Holly Miller
University of Otago, New Zealand
Matthew McBride
Church History Department
Vinna Chintaram
UNC-Chapel Hill
Prophetic Voices Across Cultures
Stephen T. Betts Moderator
University of Virginia
Chase Kirkham
Joseph Smith Papers
Stephen Fleming
Anaheim, California
LDS Women and the 1896 Idaho Suffrage Amendment
Katherine Kitterman Moderator
Better Days 2020/American University
Brandi Burns
Boise, Idaho
Building the LDS Church: Theologies, Space, and People
Jeffrey Turner
University of Utah
Rachel Hunt Steenblik
Claremont Graduate University
Hope Dargan
MIT
Latter-day Saints in Eastern Europe: Navigating Questions of Faith, Identity, and Diversity
Kahlile B. Mehr Moderator
Bountiful, Utah
James A. Miller Commentator
Church History Department
Sergei Antamanov
Church Communications Department
Liudmyla Fylypovych
H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy
Ihor Kozlovskyi
H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy
Art, Architecture, and Mormon Representations
Emily Larsen Moderator
Springville Museum of Art
Bryley Michelle Deneen
Grand Rapids, MI
Christian Goodwillie
Hamilton College
James Perry
Church History Department
Text(s) and Environment(s)
Dwain Coleman Chair, Moderator, and Presenter
University of Iowa
Brian Passantino
Church History Library
Colby Townsend
Indiana University Bloomington
Silk in History and Memory
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Harvard University
Chris Rigby Arrington
New York City, New York
Sasha Coles
University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrea Radke-Moss
BYU-Idaho
Latter-Day Saint Politics and Influence: Local, National, International
Allison M. Kelley
University of Virginia
Richard Armstrong
Wichita, Kansas
Kenneth L. Alford
Brigham Young University
Tonya S. Reiter
Salt Lake City, Utah
Theologies on the Margins: Lgbtq+ Mormon Histories
Benjamin E. Park Chair and Comment
Sam Houston State University
Sara Patterson
Hanover College
Joshua Stephen Smith
Boston University
Calvin Burke
Brigham Young University
Gender Anxieties in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Taylor Petrey Chair and Comment
Kalamazoo College
Christine Talbot
University of Northern Colorado
Mees Tielens
Church Divinity of the Pacific
Author Meets Critics: Benjamin Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo
Janiece Johnson
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Patrick Q. Mason
Utah State University
Lindsay Hansen Park
Sunstone Foundation
Benjamin Park
Sam Houston State University
Author Meets Critics: Taylor Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay
Stephen Betts
University of Virginia
Matthew Bowman
Claremont Graduate University
Kristine Wright
Princeton University
Taylor Petrey
Kalamazoo College
Author Meets Critics: Christopher James Blythe, Terrible Revolution
Joseph Stuart Chair
University of Utah
Ardis E. Parshall
Keepapitchinin
Cristina Rosetti
San Juan Capistrano, California
Joseph Spencer
Brigham Young University
Christopher James Blythe
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young Did Nothing Wrong: The Appropriation of Mormon History and the Reactionary #DEZNAT Twitter Hashtag
Spencer Greenhalgh
University of Kentucky
Amy Chapman
Columbia University
Is There a Mormon Intellectual Tradition? Introducing the Series Introductions to Mormon Thought
Alison Syring Moderator
University of Illinois Press
Matthew Bowman
Claremont Graduate University
Joseph Spencer
Brigham Young University
Kristine Haglund
St. Louis, MO
Michael Austin
University of Evansville
George Handley
Brigham Young University
The Hofmann Forgeries: A Virtual Glimpse at Several Documents
Brandon Metcalf
Church History Department
Varieties of Twentieth-Century Mormon-American Culture
Jana K. Riess Chair and Comment
Religion News Service
Patrick Q. Mason
Utah State University
Allison M. Kelley
University of Virginia
Stephen Betts
University of Virginia
Brigham Young’s Documentary Record
John Hatch Chair and Comment
Signature Books
Elizabeth Kuehn
Joseph Smith Papers
Glen Leonard
Layton, Utah
Katie Rich
Saratoga Springs, Utah
Ecological Histories of Mormonism
Madison Daniels Chair and Comment
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Erika Bsumek
University of Texas at Austin
Anna Thurston
Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
Amanda Beardsley
San Diego State University
Science, Race, Health and Mormon Bodies
Cassandra Clark Chair and Comment
Salt Lake Community College
Rebekah Strain
Brigham Young University-Hawaii
Robyn Shahan Spears
University of Arkansas
Jenny Hale Pulsipher
Brigham Young University
Visions Embodied in Texts: Joseph Smith, Emma Smith, and the Book of Mormon
Rachel Cope Chair and Comment
Brigham Young University
Jennifer Reeder
Church History Department
Robin Scott Jensen
Joseph Smith Papers
Timothy Farrant
Pembroke College, Oxford
Lineage, Community, and Institutions in a Globalizing Church
Ignacio Garcia Chair
Brigham Young University
Melissa Inouye Comment
Church History Library
Andrew Hall
Kyushu University
Russell Stevenson
Brigham City, Utah
Jaclyn Foster
Missoula, Montana
Author Meets Critics: Joseph Smith: History, Methods, and Memory
Alexander Baugh Moderator
Brigham Young University
Keith A. Erekson
Church History Library
Richard Saunders
Southern Utah University
Hillary Kirkham
Brigham Young University
Ronald O. Barney Author
St. George, Utah
Living African American Mormon History
W. Paul Reeve Chair
University of Utah
Tarienne Mitchell Comment
Church History Library
Robert S. Burch Jr.
Sema Hadithi African American Heritage and Culture Foundation and Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society “Researching, Writing, and Living African American History and Genealogy”
Alice Faulkner Burch
Community Event Producer & Former Genesis Group Relief Society President
C. Andrew Smith III
The Movement of Mormon Missions Across Time and Space
David Golding Chair and Comments
Church History Department
Maclane Heward
Utah Valley Institute of Religion
Rachel Felt
Salt Lake City, UT
Taunalyn Ford
Brigham Young University
New Perspectives on the Early History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Jay Burton Chair
Church History Library
Gerrit Dirkmaat Comment
Brigham Young University
S. Spencer Wells
Southern Utah University
LaJean Carruth
Church History Library
Steven Hepworth
Church History Library
Author Meets Critics: Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Richard E. Turley Jr. Moderator
Farmington, Utah
Brian Cannon
Brigham Young University
Martha Bradley Evans
University of Utah
John Turner
George Mason University
Thomas G. Alexander Author
Brigham Young University
Developing LDS Exegesis: Trends and Influences in Hermeneutics and Epistemology from 1876-1980
Matthew Bowman Chair and Moderator
Claremont Graduate University
Amy Easton-Flake and Kayla Bach
Brigham Young University
Ben Spackman
Claremont Graduate University
Envisioning Digital Mormon Histories
Sasha Coles Chair and Comment
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jordan Bratt
Ball State University
Hannah Jung
Brandeis University
Jeff Turner
University of Utah
Jeremy Browne and Elizabeth Smart
Brigham Young University and Harold B. Lee Library
Mormon Women in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Interracial Marriage, Priesthood, and Pandemic
Caroline Kline Chair and Comment
Claremont Graduate University
Brittany Romanello
Arizona State University
Cristina Rosetti
San Juan Capistrano, California
Emily January Petersen
Weber State University
David Howlett & Nancy Ross
Smith College and DSU
The Role of Race, Religion, and Culture in Documenting Black Pioneers' Perspectives
Joseph Stuart Chair and Comment
University of Utah
Suzanne Midori Hanna
Capella University
Pumza Sixishe
Johannesburg, South Africa
Tarienne Mitchell
Church History Library
Women Artists in Mormon History, c. 1900-1950
Laura P. Howe Chair and Comment
Church History Museum
Heather Belnap
Brigham Young University
James R. Swensen
Brigham Young University
Emily Larsen
Springville Museum of Art
Post-Manifesto Politics and Polygamy
Hannah Jung Chair and Comment
Brandeis University
CarrieAnn DeLoach
Rice University
Bradley Armstrong
Logan, UT
Joel J. Campbell
Brigham Young University
Violence and Rhetorics of Morality in Latter-day Saint Practice
Kristine Haglund Chair and Comment
St. Louis, Missouri
Sarah Rounsville
Brigham Young University
Emily Larsen and Heather Belnap
Springville Museum of Art and Brigham Young University
Kif Augustine-Adams
BYU Law School
Latter-day Saint Women's Lives, Religion, and Politics
Taunalyn Ford Chair and Moderator
Brigham Young University
Casey Paul Griffiths
Brigham Young University
Cathy Gilmore
Utah State University
Brooke LeFevre
Baylor University
Language, Law, and Experience in Latter-day Saint History
Michael W. Homer Chair and Comment
Salt Lake City, Utah
Stephen S. Davis
St. Louis, MO
Erik Freeman
University of Connecticut/ Choate Rosemary Hall
Jeffrey Mahas
Church History Department
Mary Jane Woodger
Brigham Young University
Mormonism, Gender, and Empire
Joseph Stuart Chair and Comment
University of Utah
Steve Petersen
Montana State University
Amanda Hendrix- Komoto
Montana State University
Stephanie V. Griswold
Claremont Graduate University
Alexandra Himonas
Georgetown University Law Center
Conversations Across Cultural Borderlands
Brittany Romanello Chair and Comment
Arizona State University
Catherine S. Freeman
Wallingford, CT
Barbara Morgan Gardner
Brigham Young University
Calvin J. Burke
Brigham Young University
Adille Rigoni Massimini and Daniel Zacariotti
São Paulo, Brazil
Intellectuals and Intellectual Currents, Foreign and Domestic
Edje Jeter Chair and Comment
Provo, UT
Ryan Davis
Illinois State University
Rebekah Westrup
Utah Valley University
Amber Taylor
Church History Department
Utopia, Zion, War, and Peace
Janiece Johnson Chair and Comment
Neal A. Maxwell Institute
J.B. Haws
Brigham Young University
Sondra Jones
Brigham Young University
Lori Wilkinson
Salt Lake Community College