News

2017 Review

We welcomed our first Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Mormon Studies, Katy Mohrman, who has been teaching courses on Mormonism, race and gender. We recently…
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2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship

The University of Virginia's Religious Studies Department invites applications for one full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer for the 2018-2019 academic year. The anticipated start…
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Global Mormon Studies

Mormonism in the twenty-first century is a global religious tradition with diverse manifestations in many nations, cultures, and languages. Yet the academic field of Mormon…
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Kathleen Flake to give Annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture

Professor Flake will give the Annual Neal A. Maxwell Lecture on Oct. 21, 2017. Her address is entitled "By Study, Even By Religious Studies." Religious Studies…
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Amicus Brief Opposing Immigration Ban

Professor Kathleen Flake joined 20 other scholars in filing a brief in the United States Supreme Court, attacking President Trump’s ban on refugees and immigrants from…
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Professor Flake Speaks at Fudon University’s Center for American Studies, Shanghai

Professor Flake traveled to China to speak at the Pu Shi Institute for Social Science, in Beijing, during their Summer Training Program on Religion and…
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Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture

Professor Flake spoke in answer to the question: Many of our conversations hinge on well-known organizing principles:  gender, race, class, tradition, institutions, centuries, etc.   How well…
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Polygamy’s Long Durée

Professor Flake presented at the Sandra Day O'Connor Law School. Her paper was entitled, "Polygamy's Long Durée," and began: "Latter-day Saint history of plural marriage…
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Panel: Women’s Ordination in Catholicism and Mormonism

Prof. Flake will participate in a dialogue comparing ordination theology and practice in the priesthoods of the Latter-day Saint and Catholic tradition. The event is sponsored…
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Publication: “Ordering Antinomy”

Professor Flake's article "Ordering Antinomy: Ante Bellum Mormonism’s Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship” will be published in the summer volume of the "Journal of Religion…
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