Special Events Return to Top
MHA Business Meeting
Recognition of Outgoing Board Members, Voting on New Board Members
Ignacio Garcia
MHA President
Financial Report
David Simmons
MHA Financial Chair
Preview of MHA 2021
Preview of MHA 2021, Rochester/Palmyra, New York
MHA Devotional
“Who We Lost: Latter-day Saints Who Died in the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920”
Ardis E. Parshall
Independent Scholar
Plenaries Return to Top
"Remember the Ladies": The Fight for Woman’s Rights
Martha Bradley-Evans
University of Utah
Sponsored by the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team (MWHIT) and Better Days 2020
Reflections of an Assistant Church Historian
Upon his retirement, Richard E. Turley Jr. reflects on his thirty-year tenure heading the History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Interview with Barbara Jones Brown
MHA Executive Director
"Presidential Conversation” and "Passing of the MHA Seerstone"
MHA President Ignacio Garcia
Brigham Young University
MHA President-Elect Jennifer Lund
Church History Department
Author Conversations Return to Top
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (2020)
Benjamin E. Park
Sam Houston State University
with Jennifer Reeder
Church History Department
Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences (2019)
Gregory A. Prince
Independent Scholar
with Calvin Burke
Brigham Young University
Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West (2019)
David Walker
University of California, Santa Barbara
with Sasha Coles
University of California, Santa Barbara
Individual Presentations Return to Top
Glocalization, Grobalization, and the Community of Christ in the Philippines, 1965-2015
David Howlett
Smith College
Historical Experiences of Mormon Nigerian Women and Gender Disparity
Henry Amaechi Okafor
University of Ibadan
Visions of a Spectral Past: Secularism and the Rise of the Manti Mormons
Cristina Rosetti
Independent Scholar
Corresponds with and Supports the Testimony of the Book of Mormon’: Early Latter-day Saint Apologetics and the Reception of the Book of Mormon
Stephen O. Smoot
Book of Mormon Central
Roundtables and Panels Return to Top
Archival Collecting: COVID-19 and other Collections
Christine Blythe
L. Tom Perry Special Collections, BYU
Matthew Heiss
Church History Department
Melanie Nef
Church History Department
Moderator:
Justin Bray
Church History Department
How to Publish Articles in Mormon History
Jessie L. Embry,
Journal of Mormon History
Steven C. Harper,
BYU Studies
Taylor G. Petrey,
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Moderator:
Sherilyn Farnes
Texas Christian University
Mormon and Latter-day Saint Publishing
Gary Bergera
Signature Books
Loyd Ericson
Greg Kofford Books
Scott Esplin
BYU Religious Studies Center
Matthew Grow
Church Historian’s Press
Kristine Haglund
By Common Consent Press
Moderator:
Riley Lorimer
Joseph Smith Papers
Nauvoo Connections to Washington, D.C.: A Painting, a Sunstone, and a Visit from Joseph Smith
Alexander L. Baugh
Brigham Young University
Byran Korth
Brigham Young University
Anthony Sweat
Brigham Young University
Podcasting Mormon History
Spencer McBride
Joseph Smith Papers
Lindsay Hansen Park
Sunstone Foundation
Moderator:
Sara Burlingame
Independent Scholar
Studying Mormonism in Graduate School
Dwain Coleman
University of Iowa
Hannah Jung
Brandeis University
Kathryn Mohrman
University of Colorado, Denver
Taunalyn Rutherford
Brigham Young University
Jeffrey Turner
University of Utah
Teaching Mormon History to Undergraduates
Brian Cannon
Brigham Young University
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
Montana State University
Patrick Q. Mason
Utah State University
Moderator:
Allison Kelley
University of Virginia
State of the Field Discussions Return to Top
Book of Mormon Studies
Janiece L. Johnson
Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship
Joseph M. Spencer
Brigham Young University
Global Mormon Studies
Carter Charles
Brigham Young University
Alison Halford
Coventry University
David Howlett
Smith College
Amy Hoyt,
Claremont Graduate University
Melissa Inouye
Church History Department
Elisa Pulido
Independent Scholar
Interdisciplinary Studies
Cristina Rosetti
Independent Scholar
Mees Tielens
Newbigin House of Studies
Moderator:
Joseph Stuart
University of Utah
Joseph Smith in Mormon History
Robin Scott Jensen
Joseph Smith Papers
John G. Turner
George Mason University
Race in Mormon History
Farina King
Northeastern State University
W. Paul Reeve
University of Utah
Moderator:
Melodie Jackson
University of Maryland
Ritual Studies and Mormon History
Jonathan Stapley
Independent Scholar
Ryan Tobler
Harvard University
Moderator:
Alexandria Griffin
New College of Florida