Studying Mormonism in Graduate School

Dwain Coleman is a Ph.D. history candidate at the University of Iowa. His research interests include nineteenth century African American history, environmental history, and early American religious history. Dwain is also a co-creator of the Iowa Colored Conventions Digital Project.

Hannah Jung is a PhD candidate at Brandeis University and will be the 2020-2021 Tanner Humanities Center's Mormon Studies Fellow. Her dissertation is about the practices of secrecy in polygamous families and communities as the practice waned in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She also has degrees in Religious Studies and Cultural Analysis and Social Theory.

Samuel Ross Palfreyman is a historic sites curator for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ History Department. In 2020, he completed his PhD in the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. He holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and wrote a dissertation on the Mormon architectural diaspora of the twentieth century.