Events

On October 25th, 2025, UVA Mormon Studies and the Forum on Religion and Democracy hosted three scholars of American religious identity to discuss “Belief…

Author and journalist Jana Riess delivered the eleventh annual Joseph Smith Lecture, entitled “Not All In, But Not Out: Exploring the Borderlands Between Mormon…

A sneak preview of David Walker’s documentary film, Mormon Wrestling: A Genealogy.  
David Walker is the J. F. Rowny Chair in Religion and…

Dr. Laurie Maffly-Kipp, UVA’s new Director and Professor of Mormon Studies, delivered the tenth annual Joseph Smith Lecture on October 19th, 2024, entitled “Mormonism…

A Research Workshop Hosted by the University of Virginia Mormon Studies Program
Research Workshop Schedule
8:30 a.m.  Continental Breakfast

9:00 to 11:00 a.m….

Dr. Anthea Butler, Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, delivered the Ninth…

The University of Virginia’s Mormon Studies Program is pleased to announce the inaugural award of the Aileen H. and Hal M. Clyde Research Fellowship…

Professor Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards are currently soliciting contributions for an anthology of speeches from Latter-day Saint history. This…

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023

The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…

“This Prison… of a Crooked, Broken, Scattered, and Imperfect…