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I love practical advice. suggestions:

I’m a sucker for how-to

how to schedule your time more

effectively, how to plan your days efficiently, or how to think about your life decisions in more conscious ways. I’m convinced that this is one of the many reasons why, as an “outsider” to the LDS movement, I am fascinated by—and in love with—this religious tradition. Mormons live to plan and to practice. From their early days in children’s programs, young LDS members are taught to think carefully about their life goals, to plot thoughtfully, and to live with the future in mind.

Our conference this year highlights that very focus on practice, practice, practice—one of the primary integrating elements of life in the restoration.

In

keeping with this theme, our innovative and exciting conference program features a host of “how-to” sessions that will spark discussion and new ideas: sessions on writing history, on thinking about gender, and on living out one’s faith in distinctive cultural contexts and sites. We will dance, craft, and sing—all ways of honoring the abiding Mormon interest in self-expression. Shifting the focus of religious history to the issue of practice encourages all of us to consider the lived experiences of Mormons in a variety of settings and time periods. It suggests that the histories of ordinary believers are a critical component of the story of the Mormon movement as a whole.

So, too, our tours introduce critical aspects of Mormon experience that have often been neglected. The worlds of African Americans and women in the LDS Church are highlighted in the pre-conference programs.

Our business meeting will feature a session that focuses on lived experiences in non-U.S. church settings.

After the conference, the tour on mining cultures will instruct participants on the myriad ways that LDS community life has been structured by—and has, in turn, affected—the pace and character of mining life in the Mormon culture region.

We are so glad you have joined us. Let’s think together in creative ways about how the practice of Mormon life—in whatever forms that takes around the world—can shape our views of the past and present. The Church is changing, and so, too, is its history developing, as it keeps up with shifting notions of how to interpret the past. Welcome to the conversation!

LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP, PRESIDENT

PRESIDENTIAL WELCOME

WELCOME TO THE MHA CONFERENCE 1 We are thrilled to welcome you to the 2016 MHA conference in Snowbird, Utah! This year’s theme is “Practice,” and was meant to be interpreted both provocatively (understanding elements of the Mormon experience in ways beyond what previous scholars have considered) and widely (bringing in considerations of Mormon life far outside the American context). We are pleased that MHA’s participants took up the challenge in such innovative and exciting ways, as displayed in the program. Attendees will be privileged to hear about the variations in how the LDS Church’s racial policies were “practiced” in Africa and South America prior to 1978, how Mormon identity has been “practiced” in theater and in cultural reenactments, how women writers “practiced” their devotion through novels and letters, and even “best practices” for teaching Mormon history in the university classroom. One innovative panel argues that hands-on practice of everyday activities such as spinning and tinsmithing can reveal historical insights inaccessible through texts (and will include a full-sized spinning wheel and other authentic tools to demonstrate that point). The Friday membership luncheon brings together participants from around the globe to discuss the international dimensions of contemporary LDS and Community of Christ history and practice. We are confident that listeners will leave this conference with a better understanding of the breadth and depth of Mormonism’s culture and history.

Of course the program also features panels that cover traditional hallmarks of Mormon historical scholarship, like the Book of Mormon, polygamy, and the rise of Mormon political conservatism, though in new and innovative ways. There are also panels that address contemporary issues, like the roundtable on Mormon feminism in the twenty-first century, the function of social media in shaping Mormon culture, or the varieties of Mormon mothering. And for those who want a better understanding of modern LDS archiving practices, there are workshops meant to demystify the LDS Church’s Granite Mountain Vault and the Church History Library’s policies governing access to documents.

Whatever your interests are, there should be something for you.

So bring a notebook, open your mind to new ideas, and genuinely enjoy yourself over these few days while feasting on a rich array of new work and engaging perspectives.

MELISSA WEI-TSING INOUYE, -

BENJAMIN E. PARK

University of Auckland, Co-Chair

University of Missouri, Co-Chair

GINA COLVIN, University of Canterbury

MAURO PROPERZI, Brigham Young University

JARED HICKMAN, Johns Hopkins University

NATALIE ROSE, Michigan State University

JANELLE HIGBEE, Independent Scholar

CHRISTINE TALBOT, University of Northern Colorado

ROBIN JENSEN, LDS Church History Department

CHRYSTAL VANEL, Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcité (GSRL), Paris, France

WELCOME TO SNOWBIRD! 2 Nestled in the mountain paradise of Little Cottonwood Canyon, roughly fifteen miles from downtown Salt Lake City, the steep canyon is home to the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, carved out by an alpine glacier in the last ice age. The steep granite walls at the mouth of the canyon provided quartz monzonite for the Mormon pioneer construction of the Salt Lake Temple, and the Albion Basin at the top of the canyon is home to a number of rare plants and wildflowers.

In addition to providing stone for the Mormon temple and housing a mountain vault closed to the public, Snowbird is a historic site: miners discovered silver within the rugged confines of the glacial canyon in 1869. The deposits soon evolved into a massive industry with one of the largest producers of silver ore in the Wasatch Mountains, producing more than $3.8 million in silver. At its peak, 8,000 people lived and worked in the canyon, with two smelters, 138 homes, hotels, boarding houses, stores, and a railroad. The town was later destroyed by a series of avalanches. The snow provided a new life to the area: in 1971, the narrow canyon became home to the world-famous Snowbird ski resort, a site for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Today, Snowbird and Little Cottonwood Canyon are home to recreational activities including hiking, camping, fishing, mountain biking, rock climbing, bouldering, and of course skiing, snowboarding, and backcountry use.

Snowbird is the perfect location for MHA’s 2016 conference. Preconference tours will travel to local sites in the Salt Lake valley with themes on the Utah African American experience and Mormon women’s public life and activism. Two preconference workshops will take attendees on location to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers to discuss material culture with past MHA president and Pulitzer Prize-winning specialist Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and crack research tips will be presented at the LDS Church History Library. A post-conference tour will explore historic mining and architectural sites along the Wasatch Front and Back, including Park City, Copperton, and Bingham.

You won’t want to miss the on-site conference events. Our opening reception will include the excitment and anticipation of all MHA opening sessions, as well as a special performance by the Lower Lights, a local hymn revival band known for their folksy bluegrass approach to familiar hymns, overlooked hymns, and more, connecting to beautiful, old songs with a rich mine of harmony, part-revival, part-vigil. Throughout the conference, MHA will host a Relief Society bazaar to raise money for the Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team, where you’ll be able to bid for homemade items such as quilts and jams and cookies, as well as modern history services, such as editing and writing. Our closing reception will include a showing of clips from the Mormon film archive at BYU. We are delighted to welcome you to Snowbird.

ANNE BARRETT, EMILY UTT, AND JENNY REEDER, LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS.

OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS

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LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH

LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP

BRIAN Q. CANNON

PAST PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT

PRESIDENT-ELECT

BRYON ANDREASEN

DARIUS GRAY

JB HAWS

JOSEPH STUART

LISA OLSEN TAIT

ROBERT L. RACKER

PUBLICATIONS

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

MEMBERSHIP

PUBLIC RELATIONS

AWARDS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

PATRICK Q. MASON

JONATHAN STAPLEY

JESSIE EMBRY

JEFFERY O. JOHNSON

EDUCATION LIAISON

EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY

FINANCES

HISTORIAN/ARCHIVIST

2016 MHA COMMITTEES 4 MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT

NOMINATING

Darius Gray, Chair Robert L. Racker

Glen M. Leonard, Chair Barbara Jones Brown Richard E. Bennett Keith Erekson Melissa Inouye

EDUCATION LIAISON Patrick Q. Mason, Chair

JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY EDITOR

FINANCE AND FUND-RAISING

Jessie Embry

Jonathan Stapley, Chair Robert L. Racker

JOURNAL BOARD OF EDITORS

PUBLICATIONS

Gary Bergera Michael H. Paulos Fr. Daniel P. Dwyer Janiece Johnson Colleen McDannell Marjorie Newton Barbara Walden Jennifer L. Lund Matthew Garrett Patricia Scott Rachel Cope

Bryon Andreasen, Chair

PUBLIC RELATIONS Lisa Olsen Tait, Chair

LONG-TERM & STRATEGIC PLANNING Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Chair Laurie Maffly-Kipp Brian Q. Cannon Robert L. Racker

Ronald Bartholomew - Book Review Editor

STUDENT RELATIONS

CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUBLICITY

Joseph Stuart, Chair

Steven Mayfield

AWARDS JB Haws, Chair Tom Alexander-Arrington Subcommittee Chair Lavina Fielding Anderson Richard L.Bushman Tona Hangen-Book Subcomittee Chair Elise Boxer Wilfried Decoo Fr. Daniel P Dwyer Barbara Walden

Sheree Bench-Article Subcomittee Chair Janelle Higbee Mark Ashurst-McGee Susanna Morrill David Morris Brian Birch-Student Work Subcommittee Chair Sheree Bench Scott Esplin Boyd Petersen Greg Prince

CONFERENCE PROGRAM DESIGN: Shane Allman (Cover), Brooke Woodall

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

CONFERENCE

5 OPENING PLENARY F R I D A Y , JU N E 10 • 9:00 - 10:00 A M • B A L L R O O M M O R MO N P R A C T I C E : A N A N T H R O P O LO G I S T ’S P E R SP E C T IV E A nt hropologic al approac hes priv ilege t he v i e w p o in t fro m religi on-as -prac t i c ed: Mormoni s m ‘ is ’ w hat is done on a d a ily b a sis, in any part ic ul ar t ime and plac e w here peopl e def ine th e m se lve s a s L at t er-day S aint s . C annell dis c us s es t he w ay Latte r-d a y S a in t w omen in a part ic ul ar w ard nav i gat e t he religi ous w or k o f b e co m in g a nd remai ni ng Mormon. I n t he c ours e of t hi s w or k, th e y co m e s urpri s ingly c l os e t o f orms of rel igi ous l if e w hi c h w o u ld in o th e r forms of C hri s t ian prac t ic e be des c ri bed as ‘int erc es sio n a ry’.

BIO:

FENELLA CANNELL

D r F enella C annel l has been w ork i ng w it h A merica n L a tte r-d a y S ai nt s at int erv al s s i nc e 2001, and has c onduc t ed p a rticip a n t obs erv at ion f i el dw ork on Mormoni s m in ups t at e N ew Y o rk a n d in U t ah. S he is als o a s pec ial is t i n S out heas t A s ian ant h ro p o lo g y a n d h as w ri t t en more broadl y on t he rel at i ons hi p bet w ee n C h ristia n ity and s oc ial t heory .

MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON PANEL CHRYSTAL VANEL Chrystal Vanel is a postdoctoral researcher at the GSRL (Paris), a laboratory from the French National Center of Scientific Research. His historical and sociological research are on Mormonisms and Protestantisms.

F R I D A Y , JU N E 10 12:15 - 1:45 “G L O B A L P R A C T I C E : PERS P E C T I V E S O N MO R MO N DIVERSITY” INTE RNA TIO NAL E X P E RTIS E O N ME THO DS , S O URCE S , AND THE O RE TICAL FRAME W O RKS FO R CAP TURING G LO BAL MORMO N HIS TO RY IN THE LDS AND CO MMUNITY O F CHRIS T TRADITIO NS .

CHIUNG HWANG CHEN Chiung Hwang Chen is professor of communication, media and cultural studies at Brigham Young University-Hawai’i. Her research interests include gender, race, religion, and politics related issues in media and cultural studies.

GINA COLVIN

MELISSA INOUYE

WAYNE CROSBY

Gina Colvin is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand specializing in whiteness and critical race studies.

Gina has been a guest editor for the Journal of Mormon History, she is an international editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, maintains a Patheos blog, “Kiwimormon," and is the host of "A Thoughtful Faith" Podcast.

Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye is an associate editor of the Mormon Studies Review. Her areas of research specialization include religion and morality in China, the history of women and religion, and Asian and Pacific Mormonism.

Wayne Crosby over past 27 years has worked for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in several capacities.

Since 2009, he has been the Director of Global Support and Acquisitions for the LDS Church History Department. He is a graduate of the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in Business

Management.

HIGHLIGHTS

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

6 SMITH-PETTIT LECTURE SA T U R D A Y , JU N E 11 • 9:00 - 10:00 A M • B A L L R O OM RE C K O N I N G WI T H H I S T O R Y : R I C H A R D B U S H MA N, G E O R G E MARSDEN, AND THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY Ric hard B us hman and G eorge Mars den rank as t w o o f t h e m o s t dist inguis hed hi s t ori ans in t he w orld. T heir dis t i nc t ion l i es n o t o n l y i n t h e qu ant i t y and qualit y of t hei r w ork but al s o in t heir public c o m m i t m e n t t o writ e f rom t he pers pec t i v e of t hei r f ait h t radit i ons , M o r m o n a n d Evangelic al. F oc us ing on B us hman’ s pri z e-w inning bi ograp h y o f J o s e p h Sm it h and Mars den’ s pri z e-w inning bi ography of J onat han E d w a r d s , t h i s talk w i l l ex plore s ome of t he as s umpt ions , met hods , and goa l s t h a t m a r k the w ork of t hes e t w o s c hol ars . I n mos t w ay s t hey parallel ea c h o t h e r , b u t in s ome res pec t s t heir C hris t i an al i gnment s f os t er dif f erenc es o f a p p r o a c h an d out look .

GRANT WACKER

BIO: G ra nt W ac k er i s t he G i l bert T . R ow e P rof es s or E merit us o f C h r i s t i a n His t ory at D uk e D iv init y S c hool . H e is t he aut hor of H eav en B e l o w : E a r l y Pe nt ec os t al s and A meri c an C ul t ure (2001), and A meri c a’ s P a s t o r : B i l l y G ra ham and t he S hapi ng of a N at i on (2014), bot h publ i s he d b y H a r v a r d Uni v ers it y P res s . W ac k er i s pas t pres i dent of t he S oc i et y f o r P e n t e c o s t a l Stu di es , pas t pres ident of t he A meric an S oc i et y of C hurc h H i s t o r y , a n d a for mer s enior edit or of C hurc h H i s t ory : S t udies i n C hri s t ianit y a n d C u l t u r e .

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS SAT U R D A Y , JU N E 11 • 7:00 - 9:00 P M • B A L L R O O M THE C LO C K A N D T H E C O MP A S S : MO R MO N C U LT U R E IN M O T IO N T he early Mormon mov ement w as an orient eering t radi t ion. A s t h e S a i n t s m o v ed ac ros s t he A meric an lands c ape, t hey f oc us ed i nt en t l y o n a n e w un ders t andi ng of t i me and s pac e t hat ref ramed t heir c ollec t i v e d e s t i n y . B u t wha t does t he more rec ent grow t h of t he LD S C hurc h, es p e c i a l l y i n t h e So ut hern H emi s phere, s ugges t about rev is ions t o t hat origin a l g e o g r a p h i c an d t emporal organi z i ng s c heme? A s t he C hurc h maps it s el f o n t o d i f f e r e n t lan ds c apes , how w ill c ommuni t y prac t i c es be reori ent ed or re v i s e d ?

LAURIE MAFFLY-KIPP

BIO: La urie F . Maf f l y -K ipp is t he A rc her A l ex ander D is t i ngui s hed P r o f e s s o r i n t h e Hum anit i es at W as hi ngt on U ni v ers it y in S t . Louis , w here s he w o r k s i n t h e Jo hn C . D anf ort h C ent er on R eligion and P olit i c s . H er prev i ou s p u b l i c a t i o n s include R el i gi on in F ront ier C alif ornia (1994), P roc lamat ion t o t h e P e o p l e : Nine t eent h-C ent ury Mormonis m and t he P ac i f ic B as i n F ront i e r ( e d i t e d w i t h Reid N eils on, 2008), and S et t ing D ow n t he S ac red P as t : A f ri c a n A m e r i c a n Rac e H i s t ori es , 1780-1920 (2010). S he w as t he rec ipient in 2 0 1 4 o f t h e Ja mes W . C . P enningt on A w ard in A f ric an A meric an H is t o r y f r o m t h e Univ ers i t y of H ei del berg, and i s a pas t pres i dent of t he A meric a n S o c i e t y o f Chu rc h H i s t ory .

MAP OF CLIFF LODGE 7 LEVEL B AV 3 AV 5

AV 2

AV 1 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN

AV 4

LEVEL C

EXHIBITOR AREA

Primrose AB

MOTHER’S LOUNGE

ATM

Primrose B A

T H U R S D AY 9 J U N E

Day at a Glance

8 CLIFF LODGE MAIN ENTRANCE

CLIFF LODGE MAIN ENTRANCE

CLIFF LODGE MAIN ENTRANCE

BALLROOM LOBBY

7:00 - 6:00

Registration

ALL DAY

Church History Library: Power Searching Shuttle Departs

8:00 AM

Utah African American Experience Tour Bus Departs

8:15 AM Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism Tour

8:30 AM

Bus Departs

Church History Library: Power Searching Shuttle Returns

Material Culture Shuttle Departs

12:30 PM

1:30 PM Utah African American Experience Tour Bus Returns

Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism Tour Bus to Return

Material Culture Shuttle Returns

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Opening Reception Welcome The Lower Lights performance

7:00 PM

Utah African American Experience

Join us for a tour of significant sites and stories related to African-Americans in Utah. Led by Darius Gray and others, this tour includes stops at homes, churches, cemeteries, parks, museums and many others. Sites with connections to Latter-day Saint Church History will be visited along with sites connected to broader themes and experiences.

Women’s Public Life and Activism

Join historians Andrea Radke-Moss and Janelle Higbee for a special pre-conference tour of Mormon Women’s Public Life and Activism.

Church History Library: Power Searching

Bring your laptop, questions, and curiosity to the MHA “Power Searching” Workshop at the CHL to learn tips and tricks that will enlarge your research in CHL resources.

Material Culture

Material Culture is a rich historical resource but it can be difficult to understand this source material and how to use it in your research. Join Laurel Thatcher Ulrich for a half-day workshop on LDS material culture research hosted by the International Society of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers.

F R I D AY 1 0 J U N E Day at a Glance

9 BALLROOM / GOLDEN CLIFF

PRIMROSE A

PRIMROSE B

MAYBIRD

WASATCH B

Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon History

Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America

Mormonism in Practice: Insights from Church History Dept. 2016 Releases

“Deny Not the Gifts of God”: Charismata in Mormon Memory and Practice

Holy Theater: Mormon Performance, Identity and Representation

From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse

Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics

The Granite Mountain Records Vault

Newcomer’s Breakfast

7:00 - 8:00

Golden Cliff

JMH Editor Board Breakfast Eagles Nest

9:00 - 10:00

Opening Plenary Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 12:00

BREAK

12:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 1:45

Membership Luncheon -Panel Ballroom

BREAK

1:45 - 2:00 The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal

2:00 - 3:30

Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism

BREAK

3:30 - 4:00 Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Hokulani Aikau’s A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i

4:00 - 5:00

The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism

5:00 - 6:30

6:30 - 8:30

Awards Banquet Ballroom

8:30 - 10:00

Student Reception Golden Cliff

Exhibitor Hall open from 8:00 am - 6:30 pm

10 MAGPIE B

WASATCH A

MAGPIE A

WHITE PINE 7:30 - 8:00

9:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding Through Material Culture and Living History

Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and Work

Of Myths, Memories, and Missions: The Practices of Modern Mormon Missionaries

Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn of the Century

BREAK

10:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 12:15 12:15 - 1:45

BREAK Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe

1:45 - 2:00 The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography

Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s)

Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France

BREAK Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon Mexican Colonies

Leonard Arrington and the History Division: Lessons to be Learned

Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren

2:00 - 3:30 3:30 - 4:00

“That They May Dwell in a Place of Their Own�: The Evolution of Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places

4:00 - 5:00

5:00 - 6:30

6:30 - 8:30

8:30 - 10:00

in Superior A and B

S AT U R D AY 1 1 J U N E Day at a Glance

11 BALLROOM / GOLDEN CLIFF 7:30 - 8:30

9:00 - 10:00

PRIMROSE A

PRIMROSE B

MAYBIRD

WASATCH B

The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text

Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry

Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War

On Active Duty: The Utah War’s Women at Home and Afield

Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team Breakfast Golden Cliff Smith-Pettit Lecture Plenary Speaker: Grant Wacker Ballroom

10:00 - 10:30 10:30 - 12:00

BREAK

12:00 - 12:15 12:30 - 2:00

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN BREAK

1:45 - 2:00 Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservatism after 1960

2:30 - 4:00

The Legal World of Early and Contemporary Mormonism

4:30 - 5:30

The Practice of Mormon Mothering

The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives

The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth Century

Mormonism and World Leaders

Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and Intellectual Property at the Church History Library

BREAK

5:30 - 7:00

9:00 - 10:00

YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital Pedagogy

BREAK

4:00 - 4:30

7:00 - 9:00

PRE-PURCHASED BOX LUNCHES CAN BE PICKED UP IN BALLROOM LOBBY

Presidential Banquet Ballroom Closing Reception Ballroom

Exhibitor Hall open from 8:00 am -5-+:30 pm

9 MAGPIE B

WASATCH A

MAGPIE A

12

WHITE PINE 7:30 - 8:30

9:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 10:30 People, Places and Businesses in Territorial Utah

Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism

Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation

Practicing 21st Century Research

BREAK

12:00 - 12:15

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

PRE-PURCHASED BOX LUNCHES CAN BE PICKED UP IN BALLROOM LOBBY

12:30 - 2:00

BREAK Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites

Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

1:45 - 2:00 The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49

Mormonism and Religious Sensibility

BREAK Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop

Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism

The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work

BREAK

10:30 - 12:00

2:30 - 4:00 4:00 - 4:30

A Close Look at Willima B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet

4:30 - 5:30

5:30 - 7:00

7:00 - 9:00

9:00 - 10:00

in Superior A and B

S U N D AY 1 2 J U N E Day at a Glance

13 TOTAL BALLROOM

CLIFF LODGE MAIN ENTRANCE

8:30

8:30 Sunday Devotional Wain Myers Speaker One Voice Choir (Genesis Group)

9:00

Mining and Community Building in Zion overnight (Park City) Bus Departs

11:00

7:30

9:00

LDS Film Tour bus leaves

5:00PM MONDAY

KAERB Mining and Community Building in Zion (Park City) Bus Returns

Devotional

Mining and Community Building in Zion

Explore the dynamic connections between Mormonism, mining, and the growth of communities along the Wasatch Front and Back

CONFERENCE INFO MOTHER’S LOUNGE For those in need, the Little Pine breakout room on Level C has been set up as a complimentary Mother’s Lounge.

REGISTRATION DESK The registration desk (located on Level , B , Ballroom Lobby) can assist you with any questions or concerns, including schedule issues, event information, and any other assistance you may need.

The registration desk hours are: Wednesday............ 3 PM - 7 PM Thursday................ 7 AM - 6 PM Friday..................... 7 AM - 6 PM Saturday................. 7 AM - 4 PM LOST AND FOUND In case of lost items, a Lost and Found is located at the registration desk on level B. If lost items are found, please return them to the registration desk.

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5:00PM MONDAY

SPEAKER GUIDE 13.5 NAME...........................................PAGE # (SESSION #)

Ad a ms, Li nda H unt er . . . . ............21(4E) Ai ka u , H ok ul ani K . . . . . . . . ............18(3A) Al e xa n d er , T hom as . . . . . . ............21(4E) Al fo r d , K ennet h L. . . . . . . . ...........21(4D) Al l r e d , M as on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............17(2F) Al vo r d , T r ev or . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............21(4G ) An d e r son, D ev er y . . . . . . . . ............17(2G ) Au g u sti ne- A dam s , K i f . . . . ...........24(6A) Be n n i o n , J anet . . . . . . . . . . . . ............19(3G ) Ba r b e r , I an. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........18(3B) Ba u g h , Al ex ander L. . . . . ...........20(4C) Be n n e tt, R i c har d. . . . . . . . . . ...........16(2A) Be r g e r a , Gar y J am es . . . ............24(6C) Bo xe r , El i s e. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............18(3A) Br a d l e y, D on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16(2B),20(4B) Br a d l e y- E v ans , M ar t ha. ............17(2G ) Br a d y, D ebi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........15(1E) Br a tt, Jo r dan F . . . . . . . . . . . ............22(5B) Br a y, Jus t i n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........23(5H) Br i g g s, R ober t H av en. . . ............21(4E) Br i n g h u r s t , N ew el l G. . . ............22(5A) Br i n ke r hof f - P l at t , J enni f er........17(2D) Br o w n , B ar bar a J ones . . . ...........19(3E) Br o w n , Sam uel . . . . . . . . . . . . ..20(4A),23(5H) Bushman, Claudia....................22(5C) Bushman, Richard....................16(2A) C a l l , Ha dy n B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........15(1E) C a l l , Ja r ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............23(5E) C a n n e l l , F enel l a. . . . . . . . . ............14(O P) C a n n o n , J ef f r ey G. . . . . . . ...........14(1B) C a n n o n , K ennet h L. . . . . ............24(6B) C h a te l a i n, J er em y J . . . . ............23(5F) C h e n , C hi ung H w ang. . . . ...........16(M L) C h r i ste ns en, C l i nt on D . ...........14(1B) C l a r k, A l an J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............15(1D) C l a r k, C as s andr a L. . . . . ............18(3C) C o l vi n , G i na. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..16(M L),23(5F) C o mb s, R y an Leav i t t . . . . ............21(4G ) C r o p p e r , C or r y . . . . . . . . . . . . ............17(2H) C r o sb y, W ay ne. . . . . . . . . . . . ...........16(M L) D a vi s, N i c hol as . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........15(1H) D e r r , Ji l l M ul v ay . . . . . . . . . . ............14(1C) D i n g e r , J ohn S . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........24(6A) D i r kma at , Ger r i t J . . . . . . . . ...........23(5G ) D o wd l e , B r et t D . . . . . . . . . . . ...........17(2F) D r i g g s, Ken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............25(6F) D u n ca n , C hr i s t i na. . . . . . . . ............23(5F) Esp l i n , S c ot t C . . . . . . . . . . . ............23(5E) El i a so n , E r i c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............15(1G ) Er e kso n , K ei t h A . . . . . . . . . ...........25(6G ) El l swo r th, B r ant W . . . . . . ............15(1G ) Eme r y, El i z abet h. . . . . . . . . . ...........17(2H) F a l a te r , M egan. . . . . . . . . . . . . ...........24(6D) F e i n a u e r , J ohn C . . . . . . . . ............22(5B) F l a ke , K at hl een. . . . . . . . . . . . ...........14(1A) F l e mi n g , S t ephen J . . . . . ............23(5D) F l u h ma n , J . S penc er . . . ..15(1F),16(M L) F o ste r , C r ai g L. . . . . . . . . . . ............25(6F) F o ste r , L aw r enc e. . . . . . . . . . ...........16(2B) Gi ve n s, T er r y l . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..18(3B),20(4A) Go d fr e y, A udr ey M . . . . . . ............20(4D) Go d fr e y, M at t hew C . . . . . ...........14(1C)

G ol dber g , R o b e r t A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 ( 5 A) G ol di ng , D a vi d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 G ) G onz al e z, Jo h n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 ( 3 E) G rua, D a vi d W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 ( 4 C ) G reen, Sp e n ce r L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 G ) G ri ffi ths , C a se y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 H ) G row, M a t t h e w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 A) Hal es , Br i a n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 ( 4 B) Hal es , L a u r a H a r r i s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 D ) Hal es , Sco t t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 ( 4 F ) Hal l , Da ve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 ( 5 C ) Hangen , T o n a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 C ) Hank s , Ma xi n e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 B) Harper, St e ve n C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 ( 4 C ) Harris, Matthew L. ................22(5A) Hatc h, Jo h n P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 G ) Hay c ock, Mi ch a e l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 B) Heath, Jo h n H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 ( 3 D ) Hedges, An d r e w H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 ( 5 G ) Henri c h se n , L yn n E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 D ) Hi gbee, Ja n e l l e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 B) Hodges, Bl a i r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 ( 3 H ) Hol broo k, Ka t e . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 D ) , 2 2 ( 5 C ) Inouy e, Me l i ssa . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( ML ) , 2 5 ( 6 H ) J ens en, D e va n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 D ) J ens en, R o b i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 ( 1 A) J ens en, H e a t h e r Be l n a p . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 H ) J es s op, Jo e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 ( 3 G ) J ohns on , Ja n i e ce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3 ( 5 D ) J ohns on , Je f f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 ( 6 C ) J ones , Me g a n Sa n b o r n . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 C ) Kearns , Al e c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 H ) Kerby , T a yl o r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 ( 4 H ) Ki ng, L a r r y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 ( 4 E) Ki tterm a n , Ka t h e r i n e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 E) Kram er, Br a d l e y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 D ) Lam b, C o n n i e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 E) Leahy , An n e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9 ( 3 H ) Lee, Da r yl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 H ) Lee, Ry a n K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 F ) Lel egre n , Ke l l y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 E) Lel egre n , Sh a y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 ( 1 E) Leonard , G l e n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 ( 6 D ) M ac Kay , Mi ch a e l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 ( 3 C ) M ac Ki n n o n , W i l l i a m P. . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 ( 4 D ) M affl y -K i p p , L a u r i e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 ( 6 E) M c Bri de , Ma t t h e w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 5 ( 6 H ) M ahas , Je f f r e y D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4 ( 1 C ) M arqua r d t , H . Mi ch a e l . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 ( 6 D ) M as on, Pa t r i ck Q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 ( 5 A) M i nert, R o g e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 E) M ons en , Jo se p h P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 ( 3 D ) M organ , Ba r b a r a . . . . . . . . . 1 7 ( 2 D ) , 2 1 ( 4 D ) M orri l l , Su sa n n a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2 ( 5 C ) M urphy, Jo n a t h a n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 ( 4 G ) M y ers , W a i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 Nei l s on , R e i d L . . . . . . . . . . 1 8 ( 3 D ) , 2 4 ( 6 B) O ’ Conn e l l , Sa m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 C ) O m an, N a t e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 ( 6 A) O ppedi s a n o , C a l l i e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 ( 2 C ) Park , Be n j a mi n E. . . . . . . 1 9 ( 3 F ) , 2 5 ( 6 E) Pars hal l , Ar d i s E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4 ( 6 C )

Pe r e g o , U g o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 0 (4 B) Pe t e r se n , Emi l y Ja n u a r y........2 2 (5 C) Pr i n ce , G r e g o r y. . . . . . . . . . 1 9 (3 F),2 4 (6 B) Po w e l l , R a n d a l l . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 3 (5 H) R a d ke - Mo ss, An d r e a G . 20 (4 C),2 5 (6 E) R e e d , An d r e w C . . . . . . . . . 23 (5 G),1 7 (2 F) R e e d , Sa r a h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 1 (4 F) R e e d e r , Je n n y. . . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 7 (2 D) Reeve,W.Paul..14(1B),16(2A),25(6E) R e yn o l d s, El i se . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 5 (1 F) R i f e , Ja r e d S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 5 (1 G) R o g e r s, Br e n t M. . . . . . . . 20 (4 C),2 3 (5 G) R o g e r s, Jo h n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 8 (3 B) R o se t t i , C r i st i n a M. . . . . . .........2 1 (4 H) R o ss, N a n cy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 3 (5 F) R o u e ch e , Ka r i L yn n e . . . . .........2 5 (6 H) R u t h e r f o r d , T a u n a l yn F ord ......2 3 (5 D) R yska mp , G e o r g e . . . . . . . . . .........2 1 (4 H) Se p p i , G r e g o r y. . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 8 (3 C) Sh i p p s, Ja n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 6 (2 A) Si l l i t o , Jo h n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 7 (2 G) Smi t h , Me r i n a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 0 (4 B) Smi t h , R . Er i c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 4 (1 C) St a p l e y, Jo n a t h a n A. . . . ..........1 4 (1 A) St e ve n so n , R u sse l l W . ..........1 4 (1 B) St r i n g h a m, D o u g . . . . . . . . . ..........1 9 (3 H) St u a r t , Jo se p h . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 2 (5 B) T a i t , L i sa O l se n . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 1 (4 F) T a yl o r , Amb e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 7 (2 F) T a l b o t , C h r i st i n e . . . . . . . . . ..........2 1 (4 H) T a l ma g e , Je r e my. . . . . . . . . ..........1 4 (1 B) T h a yn e , St a n l e y. . . . . . . . . . ..........1 8 (3 A) T e r r y, C h a r l o t t e H a n se n .........2 3 (5 E) T i e l e n s, Sa ski a . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 1 (4 F) T o b l e r , R ya n G . . . . . . . . . . 23 (5 D),1 4 (1 A) T h o ma s, Jo h n C . . . . . . . . . ..........1 5 (1 D) T i n a j e r o , An j a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 3 (5 F) T u r n e r , Je f f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 2 (5 B) U l r i ch , L a u r e l T h a t ch e r . .........1 5 (1 E) U t t , Emi l y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 3 (5 E) Va n D yk, G e r r i t . . . . . . . . . . . 15 (1 F),2 1 (4 G) Va n At t a , D a l e . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 9 (3 E) Va n e l , C h r yst a l . . . . . . . . . . . . .........1 6 (M L ) Ve g a , Su j e y. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 8 (3 A) W a cke r , G r a n t . . . . . . . . . . . . ................2 0 W a l ke r , Kyl e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 4 (6 D) W a t e r s, Ka r i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .........2 3 (5 F) W a t so n , D a vi d . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........2 5 (6 F) W a t so n , Ma r i a n n e T . . . . .........2 5 (6 F) W a t t , R o n a l d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..........1 7 (2 E) W e l ch , R o sa l yn d e F r a n d s e n ....2 0 (4 A) W i e w o r a , N a t h a n i e l . . . . . ..........2 3 (5 H) W o o d g e r , Ma r y Ja n e . . . . ..........1 5 (1 H) W r i g h t , Kr i st i n e L . . . . . . . . .........2 2 (5 B)

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

14 9:00 - 10:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

Opening Plenary Session

Sacred Books, Solemn Rites: Text, Ritual, and Cosmos in Mormon History

Priesthood: Policy and Practice in Africa and Latin America

Mormonism in Practice: Insights from CHD’s 2016 Releases

session

OP Fenella Cannell

London School of Economics

Mormon Practice: An Anthropologist’s Perspective

session

1A

session

Robin Jensen

Chair & Discussant LDS Church History Dept

Kathleen Flake

1B

W. Paul Reeve

Chair and Discussant University of Utah

Jeffrey G. Cannon

University of Virginia

LDS Church History Dept

‘There is No End to Priesthood’: Nauvoo’s Marital Sealings in Light of the Book of Abraham

Practicing the Priesthood and Temple Ban in South Africa

Russell W. Stevenson Michigan State University

Jonathan A Stapley Mormon Ordination: Texts, Powers, and Priesthoods

Prophets and Prosperity: The Growth of Mormonism in Postcolonial Igboland, 1964-1981

Ryan G. Tobler

Jeremy Talmage

Keeping the Books of Life: Rituals and Recording in Early Mormonism

Blurring the Ban: Brazil’s Pre-1978 Black Priesthood Ordinations

Independent Scholar

Harvard University

LDS Church History Dept

9:00 - 10:00

PRIMROSE A

1C

R. Eric Smith

Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept

Matthew C. Godfrey LDS Church History Dept

A Season of Blessings: What We Learn about Ordination and Patriarchal Blessings in Kirtland, Ohio, from the Joseph Smith Papers

Jeffrey D. Mahas LDS Church History Dept

‘As Good an Institution As We Should Want’: The Council of Fifty, the Whistling and Whittling Movement, and the Quest for a Theocratic Government

Clinton D. Christensen

Jill Mulvay Derr

Racial Perception and the Priesthood: Practice Among Latin American and Caribbean Saints

How Women Created and Negotiated Their Institutional Presence: Emergent Narratives from Key Documents in The First Fifty Years of Relief Society

PRIMROSE B

MAYBIRD

LDS Church History Dept

BALLROOM

session

1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 01 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 0

LDS Church History Dept

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

15 10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

Deny Not the Gifts of God: Charismata in Mormon Memory and Practice

Practicing as They Practiced: Enhancing Historical Understanding Through Material Culture and Living History

Lives Consecrated: May and James Talmage, Their Relationship and Work

Of Myths, Memories, and Missions: The Practices of Modern Mormon Missionaries

Progressive Practice: Development of Church Institutions at the Turn of the Century

session

1D

session

Bradley Kramer Chair and Discussant Writ & Vision

1E

session

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Chair and Discussant Harvard University

1F

session

J. Spencer Fluhman Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

1G

session

David Golding

Chair Brigham Young University

1H

Mary Jane Woodger Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

Lynn E. Henrichsen

Kelly Lelegren

Gerrit van Dyk

Brant W. Ellsworth

Casey Griffiths

York College

Brigham Young University

We Believe in the Gift of Tongues: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century LDS Missionary Experiences Learning and Using Foreign Languages

Home Manufacture and the Mormon Call to Dust Off the Spinning Wheel

May Booth Talmage: A Life of Reflection and Service

Portals to the Past: Reflexivity and the Study of Memories

Elise Reynolds

Spencer L. Green

Young, Progressive, and in Love: Joseph F. Merrill, Laura Hyde and the Origins of Latter-day Saint Educational Practices

Brigham Young University

John C. Thomas Brigham Young U - Idaho

Ambivalence Lost?

Remembering and Forgetting Unknown Tongues

Alan J. Clark

Claremont Graduate University

The LDS Antinomian Faith Crisis: Snuffer, Pontius, Kelly and the LDS Hunger for Spiritual Expression

WASATCH B

Cedar City, UT

Debi Brady

UT Tour Guide Association

Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, Or Do Without: Weaving as a Cause for Mormon Frugality

Shay Lelegren Cedar City, UT

Tinsmithing in the Untamed West

Brigham Young University

LDS Church History Dept

James E. Talmage: Scientist, Educator, Apostle, and PR Man

Ryan K. Lee

Brigham Young University

Beyond Educator, Scientist, and Apostle: James E. Talmage as a Family Man

Hadyn B. Call

Utah State U/Davis School District

Return with Bother: Awkward Dating Stories with Recently Returned Missionaries

Jared S. Rife

Central Pennsylvania College

LDS Missionary Acclimation and Adjustment: The Stories Fold Two by Two

Eric Eliason

Interpreting the Past through the Lens of Living History: The Material Culture of Mormon Pottery

MAGPIE B

Pennsylvania State U, Harrisburg

Brigham Young University

Comments

WASATCH A

10:30 - 12:00

MAGPIE A

Nicholas Davis

Brigham Young University

A Line in the Sand: Joseph Keeler’s Institutionalized Bishop’s Court Practices in the Progressive Era

Alec Kearns

Brigham Young University

The Boy Scouts of America and the Development of Mormon Patriotism in the Progressive Era

WHITE PINE

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

16 MEMBERSHIP LUNCHEON

12:15 - 1:45

2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

Roundtable and Audience Discussion:

The Council of Fifty Minutes: An Initial Scholarly Appraisal

Gendering Nineteenth-Century Mormonism

Holy Theatre: Mormon Performance, Identity, and Representation

“Global Practice: Perspectives on Mormon Diversity” session

ML

session

Membership Luncheon

Spencer Fluhman, Chair

Annual MHA Membership/ Business Report

2A

session

Matthew Grow

Chair LDS Church History Dept

Panalists:

Alexandria, VA

Columbia University Brigham Young University-Hawai’i

Gina Colvin

University of Canterbury

Chair Pleasant Grove, UT

Michael Haycock

Richard Bushman Chiung Hwang Chen

2B

session

Janelle Higbee

Jan Shipps

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

Richard Bennett

Brigham Young University

2C

Callie Oppedisano Chair Draper, UT

Tona Hangen

Worcester State University

Have Done with Lesser Things: Foundations of Nineteenth-Century Mormon Masculinity

Performing Trek: Becoming ‘Pioneer Children’ in the Digital Age

Maxine Hanks

Sam O’Connell

Salt Lake City, UT

Worcester State University

Wayne Crosby

And Thou Shalt Be Ordained: Have Mormon Women Been Ordained Since 1830?

The Sacred and the Profane: Performing Mormon Identities in The Book of Mormon

Chrystal Vanel

Lawrence Foster

Megan Sanborn Jones

Melissa Inouye University of Auckland

Paul Reeve

University of Utah

LDS Church History Department

Georgia Institute of Technology

GRSL, Paris, France

The Impact of the Great Mormon Trek West in 1846-47 on the Establishment of Polygamy and New Forms of Family and Kinship Ties among the Latter-day Saints

Brigham Young University

Testimony in the Muscles, in the Bone: Proxy Performance at the Mesa Easter Pageant

Don Bradley

Utah State University

Comments

BALLROOM

12:15-1:45 PM

PRIMROSE A

PRIMROSE B

10:30 - 12:00 2:00 - 3:30

MAYBIRD

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

17 2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

2:00 - 3:30

From Earthly to Eternal Families: Historical and Cultural Insights into Latter-day Saint Heaven Discourse

Twentieth-Century Mormon Practices in Eastern Europe

Mormon Pilgrimages to (the) Holy Land(s)

The Perils and Pitfalls of Mormon Biography

Mormonism and Social Practice in Nineteenth-Century France

session

2D

session

Kate Holbrook

Chair LDS Church History Dept

Barbara Morgan & Devan Jensen Brigham Young University

Line Upon Line: Joseph Smith’s Growing Understanding of Families and Heaven

Laura Harris Hales Layton, UT

Legal Briefs or Pastorals?: The LDS Church’s Three Official Statements on Marriage and Family

Jennifer Brinkerhoff-Platt

2E

session

Rogert Minert

Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

2F

session

Andrew Reed

Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

2G

session

Martha Bradley-Evans Chair and Discussant University of Utah

2H

Elizabeth Emery Chair and Discussant Montclair State U

Katherine Kitterman

Mason Allred

John P. Hatch

Daryl Lee

Undaunted: Austrian Mormon Experience

Dr. Hirschell and Mr. Hyde: Restorationism, Descendancy, and Orson Hyde’s Shifting Jewish Identity

Lorenzo Snow: The Prophet of Paradox

Devery Anderson

Mormonism as a Secte Rouges in 19th-Century French Thought

Willard Richards: Crafting a Life

Heather Belnap Jensen

American University

Connie Lamb

Brigham Young University

A New Chapter: Recent History of the LDS Church in Turkey

LDS Church History Dept

Brett D. Dowdle

Texas Christian University

Ronald Watt

West Valley City Historical Society

Arther Gaeth: The Making of a Mission President for Czechoslovakia, 1926-1929

Promised Gatherings to Promised Lands: Mormon Gatherings, Early Zionism, and Orson Hyde’s 1840 Mission to Jerusalem

Signature Books

Signature Books

Jon Sillito

Weber State University

B.H. Roberts: Defender and Advocate of Mormonism

Dangerous Similarities: Mormons in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction

A Great Trek to Zion: Manifestations, Movements, and Meanings of the LDS Presence in the Holy Land, 1841-1989

Jenny Reeder

LDS Church History Department

Romantic Socialism, La Nouvelle Femme, and Representations of Mormon Women in Nineteenth-Century French Art and Literature

Brigham Young University

Brandeis University

Latter-day Saint Discourse on Eternal Families, 1844-2015: A Cultural Perspective

Brigham Young University

Corry Cropper

Amber Taylor

Provo, UT

Brigham Young University

Comments

WASATCH B

MAGPIE B

WASATCH A

2:00 - 3:30

MAGPIE A

WHITE PINE

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

18 4:00 - 5:00 Author Meets Critics: A Panel Discussion of Hokulani Aikau’s A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) session

3A

4:00 - 5:00

4:00 - 5:00

4:00 - 5:00

The Intellectual and Theological World of Early Mormonism

Faith and Science: The Intersection of Mormonism and Eugenics

The Granite Mountain Records Vault

session

Stanley Thayne

Chair Univ at North Carolina

Panelists Sujey Vega

Arizona State University

Elise Boxer

University of South Dakota

Author-Respondent Hokulani K. Aikau

University of Hawai’i, Mānoa

PRIMROSE A

3B

session

session

Terryl Givens

Chair and Discussant University of Richmond

John Rogers Yale University

3C

Michael MacKay

Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

3D

Reid L. Neilson

Chair LDS Church History Dept

Cassandra L. Clark

Presenters

Legitimizing Whiteness: John A. Widtsoe’s Correspondence with Eugenic Scientists in the Early Twentieth Century

Joseph P. Monsen

University of Utah

Latter-day Milton: Speculations on an Early Mormon Reading Practice

Ian Barber

University of Otago

A New Chapter to Us: A Novel View of Joseph Smith’s 1820s Work as a Seer from a Sympathetic Non-Mormon Reminiscence

LDS Church History Dept

John H. Heath LDS Church History Dept

Gregory Seppi

Brigham Young University

’Our Interest in Eugenics’: The Latter-day Saints and Early 20th Century Perceptions of Race and Class

PRIMROSE B

1 0 :43: 0 0- -1 25 : 0 0

MAYBIRD

MAGPIE A

FRIDAY 10 JUNE

19 SPECIAL EVENTS 4:00 - 5:00 4:00 - 5:00

4:00 - 5:00

4:00 - 5:00

Strangers in the Borderlands: An Unlikely Tale from the Mormon Mexican Colonies

Leonard Arrington and the History Division: Lessons to be Learned

Fundamentalist Mormon Apostolic United Brethren

session

3E

session

Barbara Jones Brown Chair and Discussant South Jordan UT

John Gonzalez Draper, UT

3F

session

Benjamin E. Park Chair Unversity of Missouri

Gregory Prince Potomac, MD

3G

session

Janet Bennion

Chair and Discussant Lyndon State College

Joe Jessop Hamilton, MT

Dale Van Atta

3H

6:30 - 8:15 Awards Banquet Room: Total Ballroom

8:30 - 10:30 Student Reception Room: Golden Cliff

Blair Hodges

Chair and Discussant Brigham Young Unversity

Doug Stringham Utah Valley University

Anne Leahy

Ashburn, VA

MAGPIE B

‘That They May Dwell In a Place of Their Own’: The Evolution of Deaf Latter-day Saint Worship and Gathering Places

Salt Lake City, UT

WASATCH A

MAGPIE A

4:00 - 5:00

WHITE PINE

FRIDAY EVENING

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

20 SPECIAL EVENTS

7:30 - 8:30 Mormon Women’s History Initiative Team Breakfast Room: Golden Cliff

9:00 - 10:00 Smith-Pettit Lecture

Grant Wacker Duke Divinity School

Reckoning with History: Richard Bushman, George Marsden, and the Art of Biography

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

The Book of Mormon: New Views of an Old Text

Joseph Smith, Josephine Lyon, and the Puzzles of Nauvoo Polyandry

Contested Memories of the 1838 Missouri-Mormon War

session

session

4A

Rosalynde Frandsen Welch Chair & Discussant St Louis MO

4B

Merina Smith

Chair and Discussant San Diego, CA

Samuel Brown

Don Bradley

University of Utah

Utah State University

‘To Read the Sound of Eternity’: Speech, Text, and Scripture in the Book of Mormon

Did Joseph Smith Father Josephine Lyon? The Historical Evidence on a Reputed Child of Nauvoo Polyandry

Terryl Givens

Ugo Perego

University of Richmond

The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant Theology

University of Perugia

Was Joseph Smith the Biological Father of Josephine Lyon? The Genetic Evidence

Brian Hales

John Whitmer Historical Assoc.

Polyandry and the ‘Offer’ Mentioned in D&C 132:51

session

4C

Alexander L. Baugh Chair Brigham Young University

David W. Grua

LDS Church History Dept

Joseph Smith’s 1838-1839 Missouri Jail Letters and Mormon Persecution Memory

Brent M. Rogers LDS Church History Dept

Gendered Memories of the 1838 Missouri War

Andrea G. Radke-Moss Brigham Young University-Idaho

Sexual Violence and the Practices of Memory: Competing Constructions of the Missouri Rapes in LDS and non-LDS Discourses

Steven C. Harper LDS Church History Dept

Comments

BALLROOM

PRIMROSE A

PRIMROSE B

1 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 01 0 : 3 0 - 1 2 : 0 0

MAYBIRD

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

21 10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

10:30 - 12:00

On Active Duty: The Utah War’s Women at Home and Afield

Peoples, Places, and Businesses in Territorial Utah

Women Writers and the Practice of Mormonism

Practicing 21st Century Research

Mormon Uniqueness and Identity Formation

session

4D

session

Barbara Morgan Chair and Discussant

4E

session

Thomas Alexander Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

4F

session

Lisa Olsen Tait

Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept

4G

session

Jonathan Murphy

Chair and Discussant Brigham Young University

4H

Christine Talbot

Chair and Discussant U. of Northern Colorado

Kenneth L. Alford

Larry King

Saskia Tielens

Gerrit van Dyk

George Ryskamp

The Utah War’s 1858 Move South Viewed through Women’s Eyes

Analyzing the Success of ZCMI in Pioneer Utah

Online Tools for Mormon Research

Audrey M. Godfrey

Linda Hunter Adams

’When Men Were Men and Women Were Women’: An Exploration of the Regency Romance Novel in a Mormon Context

Meliton Gonzalez Trejo: A Former Catholic and Mormon Temple Rites

Brigham Young University

Independent Scholar

Lifeline by Mail: Utah War Letters From the Field and Home Front

William P. MacKinnon

Orem, UT

Brigham Young University

Archibald Gardner’s Lumber Mills in Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons

Independent Scholar

Rescued or Kidnapped: The Trans-Atlantic Saga of Henrietta Polydore

Robert Haven Briggs

Sarah Reed

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Polygamy and Postmemory: Virginia Sorensen’s Utah Novels

Fullerton, CA

Ira Hatch: Mountain Meadows Militiaman, Indian Scout, Explorer and Colonizer on the Mormon Frontier

WASATCH B

TU Dortmund

MAGPIE B

Scott Hales

Brigham Young University

Ryan Leavitt Combs

LDS Church History Dept

Online Tools from the LDS Church History Library

Trevor Alvord

Brigham Young University

Preserving the Future of History: BYU’s Web Archive

LDS Church History Dept

The Poet and the Apostle: The Correspondence of Ina Coolbrith and Joseph F. Smith

WASATCH A

10:30 - 12:00

MAGPIE A

Brigham Young University

Taylor Kerby

Claremont Graduate U

In the World, but Not of It: The Drive for Mormon Uniqueness

Cristina M. Rosetti U of California, Riverside

‘The Glory of God is Intelligence’: The Centrality of Religious Education in Mormon Identity Formation

WASATCH B

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

22 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

LUNCH ON YOUR OWN or PRE- ORDERED LUNCH from SNOWBIRD Pre-ordered Lunches picked up in Ballroom lobby

2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

Ezra Taft Benson and the Rise of American Conservativism after 1960

YouTube as Historical Archive for Lived Religion and Digital Pedagogy

The Practice of Mormon Mothering

session

5A

session

Robert A. Goldberg Chair & Discussant University of Utah

5B

session

Joseph Stuart

Chair and Discussant University of Utah

Newell G. Bringhurst

Jeff Turner

Ezra Taft Benson’s Quest for the U.S. Presidency

Deconversion Narratives in the Internet Age: The ‘I am an Ex-Mormon’ Campaign

Visalia, CA

Matthew L. Harris Colorado State U, Pueblo

University of Utah

5C

Susanna Morrill

Chair Lewis and Clark College

Emily January Petersen Utah State University

Mother’s Work: Organizing Mormon Motherhood in the Early Twentieth Century

John C. Feinauer

Ezra Taft Benson, Martin Luther King and the ‘Communist Conspiracy’

University of Utah

YouTube Mormonism: Arguing the Case of Mormon Fundamentalism

LDS Church History Dept

Patrick Q. Mason

Jordan F. Bratt

Dave Hall

Claremont Graduate University

Twentieth-Century Environmental Politics in the Mormon Culture Region

George Mason University

Searching for Mormonism: Digital Religion in the Age of YouTube

Kate Holbrook

Mothers at Work: A Look at the 1970s

California State U, Fullerton

Changing Realities for Mormon Women: The Gospel Literacy Effort During the Presidency of Elaine L. Jack

Kristine L. Wright Independent Scholar

’You are Hereby Called to Serve’: Opening the White Envelope, Performance and Collective Identity

PRIMROSE A

12:30 - 2:00

PRIMROSE B

10:30 - 12:00 2:30 - 4:00

Claudia Bushman Columbia University

Comments

MAYBIRD

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

23 2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

2:30 - 4:00

The Book of Mormon in Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Sacred Geography, Sacred Artifacts, Sacred Sites

Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

The Public Side of Mormon Distinctiveness, 1831-49

Mormonism and Religious Sensibility

session

5D

session

Ryan G. Tobler

Chair and Discussant Harvard University

5E

session

Emily Utt

Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept

5F

session

Christine Duncan Chair Dixie State University

5G

session

Brent M. Rogers

Chair and Discussant LDS Church History Dept

5H

Samuel Brown

Chair and Discussant University of Utah

Stephen J. Fleming

Jared Call

Kari Waters

J eremy J . C hat el ai n

Justin Bray

When Did Joseph Smith Know What He Knew? Hints at Pre-Existence, Deification, and Eternal Marriage in the Book of Mormon

The Geography of the Dissenters

Mormon Feminist Social Networks in the Age of Newsletters and Phone Calls

The Practice and Practicing of Mormon Agenda Setting in the Times and Seasons, 1839-1842

The Nose Knows: Mormons, Smell, and Sensory History

Fallbrook, CA

Janiece Johnson

Brigham Young University-Idaho

Becoming A People of the Books: Early Mormon Converts and the New Word of the Lord

Taunalyn Ford Rutherford

Claremont Graduate University

Book of Mormon and Bhagavad Gita: Latter-day Saint Practice of ‘Translation’ in India

Utah State University

Charlotte Hansen Terry

Houston, TX

University of Utah

Scott C. Esplin

Brigham Young University

Changing Their Practice: Latter-day Saint and Reorganized Church Approaches to Historical Interpretation in Nauvoo, Illinois

Randal Powell

Claremont Graduate U

LDS Church History Dept

Documents and Properties for Furs: Wilford C. Wood and the Preservation of Church History

University of Utah

Anja Tinajero

Andrew H. Hedges

The Rise of Women’s Blogs in the Early Twenty-First Century: Mormon Feminism, Secular Feminism, and Mormon Mommies

Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, 1847-49

Morelos, Mexico

Gina Colvin

University of Canterbury

Mormon Feminist Storytelling Through Podcasting

Nancy Ross

Brigham Young University

’Beyond the Veil’: The Spirit World of Popular Mormonism

Nathaniel Wiewora Harding University

Gerrit J. Dirkmaat Brigham Young University

Agriculture, Adversaries, and Apostasy: Joseph Smith’s Unpublished Revelation and the Conflict Over Frederick G. Williams’ Consecrated Farm

‘Extreme Force of Language and Energy of Action’: Antebellum Evangelicals and the Fanaticisms of Mormonism

Dixie State University

Comments

Andrew C. Reed

Brigham Young University

Finding Pathways and Practices for Religious Tolerance in Early Mormonism

WASATCH B

MAGPIE B

WASATCH A

2:30 - 4:00

MAGPIE A

WHITE PINE

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

24 4:30 - 5:30 The Legal World of Early and Contemporary Mormonism

session

6A

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

The Elections and Travels of Church Leaders in the Twentieth Century

Mormonism and World Leaders

A Close Look at William B. Smith: In the Shadow of a Prophet

session

Nate Oman

Chair & dDscussant College of William and Mary

6B

session

Gregory Prince Chair & Discussant Potomac, MD

6C

session

Jeff Johnson

Chair and Discussant Utah Historical Society

John S. Dinger

Kenneth L. Cannon II Salt Lake City, UT

Ardis E. Parshall

Meridian, ID

Mormons and the Jury in Hancock County, 1839-1845

Separation of Prophet and State? The 1914 Reelection of Reed Smoot

‘The Matter is Having My Close Attention’: Discoveries into Winston Churchill’s Investigation of Mormonism in Britain

Kif Augustine-Adams Brigham Young University

Reid L. Neilson

LDS Church History Dept

BYU, Civil Rights, and Religious Exemption to Title IX

‘A Fine Intellectual and Spiritual Opportunity’: Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington’s Tour of the LDS Church’s Asian Area General Conferences, August 1975

PRIMROSE A

PRIMROSE B

Keepapitchinin

Gary James Bergera Smith-Pettit Foundation

6D

Glen Leonard Chair Farmington UT

P res en te rs: H . Mich a e l M a rq u a rd t Sandy, UT

Megan Falater

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Response: Kyle Walker

Brigham Young University-Idaho

Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959: Memory Embellished

1 04 : 3 0 - 15 2: 3: 0 0

MAYBIRD

WHITE PINE

SATURDAY 11 JUNE

25 SPECIAL EVENTS

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

Teaching Mormon History: Pedagogy Workshop

Nathaniel Baldwin and the Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism

Restriction-ism Unveiled! A Workshop on Research Access and Intellectual Property at the Church History Library

The Practice of Mormon Missionary Work

session

6E

session

Benjamin E. Park Chair University of Missouri

Laurie Maffly-Kipp Washington U in St. Louis

W. Paul Reeve University of Utah

Andrea Radke-Moss

Brigham Young University-Idaho

6F

session

David Watson

Chair Independent Scholar

6G

7:00 - 9:00 Presidential Banquet Room: Total Ballroom

MHA Presidential Address by President Laurie Maffly-Kipp

session

Keith A. Erekson

Session Leader Director, LDS Church History Library

6H

Melissa Inouye

Chair and Comment University of Auckland

Craig L. Foster

Matthew McBride

Like Sparks of a Wildfire: The Spread of Early Fundamentalist Mormonism

‘An Ardent Desire to Speak Myself’: Early Women Missionaries and Gendered Separate Spheres

M a r ia n n e T. W a ts o n

Kari Lynne Roueche

Nathaniel Baldwin: Key Figure in the Emergence of the Fundamentalist Mormon Community

Missionary Experiences in Great Britain after the Call to Zion

Layton, UT

LDS Church History Dept

Lehi, UT

“The Clock and the Compass: Mormon History in Motion”

9:00 - 10:00 Closing Reception

Room: Total Ballroom or Golden Cliff

Kingsport, TN

Ken Driggs

Independent Scholar

Comments

MAGPIE B

WASATCH A

WASATCH B

4:30 - 5:30

MAGPIE A

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CONFERENCE SUPPORT/SPECIAL GIVING 26

We express our sincere appreciation to those who generously give to the Mormon History Association, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

BENEFACTORS OF MHA AWARDS AND SPECIAL GIVING Curtis T. Atkisson Jr. Gary James Bergera and Turner Family Christopher Talmage Jones Family The Hartley Foundation G. Kevin Jones Gerald E. Jones Gregory A. and JaLynn Prince Patricia Lyn Scott Family

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2016 CONFERENCE SPONSORS Opening Reception: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, BYU Durham Jones & Pinegar/Ken Cannon and Connie Holbrook Closing Reception: Gary Payne Richard Behrens

Student Reception: Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University Church History and Doctrine Department, BYU Neil A. Maxwell Institute, BYU (Conference Bags) Religious Studies Center, BYU (Student Travel)

DONOR MEMBERSHIP ($500) Michael Byrne Gregory Christofferson Armand L. and Ruth Mauss

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Our sincere thanks fo the many who have contributed to the success of this conference.

The Program Committee listed on page 4, co-chaired by Melissa Inouye and Ben Park has crafted a remarkable lineup. Much follow-up is always required and the committee has performed most ably and diligently. Our Local Arrangements Committee and Volunteers, co-chaired by Anne Barrett, Jenny Reeder and Emily Utt have tackled with zeal a very complex and multi-faceted conference plan. The result is a remarkable opportunity for MHA attendees to enjoy to their fullest the conference offerings, excellent facilities, food and beauties of Snowbird and the Salt Lake City area, through tours and workshops.

We have witnessed the great generosity of contributors who have given money to fund the Opening, Student and Closing receptions. Many students each year delivering papers have had their travel augmented by the Student Travel Fund. There have been other conference expenses, including our entertainment, certain meals, and devotionals that others have stepped up, contributing to an enjoyable and entertaining conference.

For our exhibitors and advertisers whose financial support and loyalty can’t be overstated. We ask you to support these exhibitors by purchasing their fine products and patronizing their kindred organizations and publications.

Of course, there is no conference without the scores of presenters who have engaged in research, the assembly of their investigation, and the writing and delivery of their papers and panel discussions. For the session chairs and commenters who add so much to our unique format and interest in the sessions. The 2016 Snowbird Conference must go down as one of the finest and most diverse presented in recent memory. MHA is so very appreciative to all those who have participated and added so much to fostering the study and presentation of Mormon history.

We also want to thank again and recognize the generosity of the award sponsors for their funding of the MHA Awards and enabling our organization in carrying out it’s mission. The many committees that serve the organization, all voluntarily, have added so much to the success of the conference. In the absence of such devotion and commitment, MHA goes nowhere.

We also express thanks to the MHA Officers and Board for their tireless work in helping to plan and execute not only the conference but also the ongoing work of MHA.

Mormon History Association 52nd Annual Conference 28 Call for Papers, June 1-4, 2017 2017 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI “CROSSING AND DWELLING IN MORMON HISTORY” The fifty-second annual conference of the Mormon History Association will be held June 1-4, 2017, at the St. Charles Convention Center in the St. Louis, Missouri metro area. The 2017 conference theme, “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History,” borrows concepts from religious studies scholar Thomas A. Tweed, who argues that religion is simultaneously in motion and in place. The theme seeks to capture both St. Louis’s general history and Latter-day Saint connections to the city’s past.

St. Louis was founded by fur traders in 1764. The territory in which St. Louis was located was governed by Spanish and French authorities prior to the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, after which it became part of the United States. The city’s geographical position on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers ensured that St. Louis would be an important trade center and a launching point for westward migration.

In the twentieth century, the city’s historic status as the Gateway to the West was made tangible when St. Louis hosted the World’s Fair in 1904 (held partly to honor the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase) and the construction of the famous Gateway Arch in 1965.

The conference theme, “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History,” seeks to capture the essence of Mormon connections with St. Louis’s history. As early as 1831, Oliver Cowdery and his companions passed through the city on their way to the Indian territory. In subsequent years, many Saints, including Joseph Smith, stopped in St. Louis as they traveled between the Mormon settlements in Missouri and Ohio. In 1839, the inhabitants of St. Louis welcomed Latter-day Saint refugees fleeing Governor Lilburn W. Boggs’s infamous “extermination order.” Within a decade, as conditions in Illinois deteriorated, many Mormons again found a safe haven in St. Louis. From the 1840s through the late 1860s, thousands of European converts passed through the city on their way first to Nauvoo and then the Great Basin. In the 1850s, the semi-permanent Mormon population in St. Louis had grown to the point that the Utah church established a stake in the city for a few years, until the stake was discontinued during the Utah War in 1857. The Reorganized Church (now Community of Christ) maintained a prospering branch in St. Louis during the second half of the nineteenth century, with Joseph Smith III presiding over two General Conferences in the city in 1869 and 1872. In the twentieth century, both major manifestations of the Restoration have claimed significant presences in St. Louis.

The program committee invites proposals that address the conference theme of “Crossing and Dwelling in Mormon History.” How has the practice of “gathering” tied the various Restoration traditions to specific places, and how have those places been connected with the broader society? How have the various traditions of Mormonism crossed from one place to another, both literally and figuratively? How have ideas and practices remained constant or changed over time?

Although the program committee is especially interested in papers that address the theme, all proposals will be considered. A strong preference will be given to proposals for complete panels, meaning a chair, three presenters, and a commentator. Sessions including international presenters (in person or via teleconference), and creative formats such as roundtables, performances, film screenings, or other experimental arrangements, are particularly encouraged. Please send 1) a 300 word abstract for each paper or presentation and 2) a brief 1-2 page CV for each presenter, including email contact information. Session proposals should also include the session title and a 300 word session abstract, along with a confirmed chair and/or commentator, if applicable. Previously published papers are not eligible for presentation at MHA. An individual may only submit one proposal as a session presenter, although it is acceptable for a presenter in one session to be a chair or commentator in another. Limited financial assistance is available to some student presenters and presenters from less economically-developed nations. Those who wish to apply for funding should include estimated travel expenses with their proposals.

The deadline for all proposals is October 1, 2016. Proposals should be sent by email to the program co-chairs, David Grua and Janiece Johnson, at mhaconference2017 AT gmail DOT com. Notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by December 15, 2016.

David W. Grua, LDS Church History Department, Co-Chair Janiece Johnson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, Co-Chair Devery Anderson, Signature Books Rebecca De Schweinitz, Brigham Young University-Provo John Hamer, Community of Christ Christopher Jones, The College of William and Mary Amy Tanner Thiriot, Independent Historian Saskia Tielens, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

AWARDS 29 L EON AR D J . A R R I N G T O N AWARD BE S T ARTICLE O N MO RMO N WO ME N' S HIS TO RY ( $ 350) Awa r d e d annually t o a s c h o la r wh o se co n t rib u t io n s a re t ru ly o u t s tandi ng fo r d i st i nguis hed s er v i c e t o Mo r mo n h ist o r y. T h e se le ct io n co mm i ttee w i l l co n si d e r t he inf luenc e of c e r t a in in d ivid u a l wo rks b y n o min e e s f or thi s a wa rd , as w ell as t hei r c umu la t ive re co rd s o f me r it o rio u s sch o la rshi p i n g e n e ra l . A w ar ded s inc e 19 9 9 , t h is a wa rd is n a me d a n d g ive n in memory a n d re c ognit i on of a f ound in g f a t h e r o f t h e Mo r mo n Hist o ry Asso ci ati on a n d p r em ier m ent or and pro mo t e r o f Mo rmo n h ist o ry. T h is a wa r d repl aces th e G ra c e For t A r r i ngt on A wa rd f o r Hist o r ica l Exce lle n ce t h a t was offered fro m 1 981 t hr ough 1998.

Sp o n s o r e d b y : M o r m o n W o m e n 's H is to r y In itia tiv e Te a m

Aw arded for an outstandi ng arti cl e on the experi ences of Mormon women i n the ni neteenth and tw enti eth centuri es. Sponsored by the Mormon Women’ s H i story Ini ti ati ve Team (MWH IT), an i ndependent group of schol ars from around the U ni ted States w ho encourage research, writing, and publ i cati ons on Mormon w omen’ s hi story.

BE S T INTE RNATIO NAL ARTICLE AWARD ( $ 3 5 0 ) Sp o n s o r e d b y : J o s e p h a n d J u lia To d d

B EST BO O K A W A R D ( $ 2 ,0 0 0 ) Sponsor e d b y : C u r t i s T . A t k isso n

Awa r d e d f or t he bes t book p u b lish e d o n Mo r mo n h ist o ry. Give n t o honor a n d e n c our age t he s ens e of p u r p o se , d e d ica t io n , e xce lle n ce o f s tudy, re se a rc h and s c holar s hip in t h e f ie ld o f Mo rmo n h ist o r y. F u n d e d by C urti s T . Atkis s on i n m em or y of h is wif e , Ma r y An n At kisso n , a lo ve r o f hi story, a n a ccom plis hed ar t is t , and MHA me mb e r .

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F u n d e d in honor of E lla La r se n T u rn e r, a p u b lish e d h ist o r ia n a n d g e n e a logi s t , and her daugh t e r , Ella Ru t h T u r n e r Be r g e ra , a p u b lis hed fa m ily h is t or ian, nov elis t , a n d p o e t .

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Aw arded for the best arti cl e on i nternati onal Mormon hi story (in print or onl i ne j ournal s), i n honor of Andrew Jenson, Assi stant LDS Church H i stori an, for hi s outstandi ng contri buti on i n documenti ng nearly every LD S congregati on around the w orl d.

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Aw arded for the best doctoral di ssertati on on a Mormon historical theme.

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One of MH A’ s pri mary obj ecti ves - fosteri ng research and publication of Mormon hi story - i s met by encouragi ng young schol ars i n undergraduate and graduate programs to parti ci pate i n the process. In November 2013, l ong-ti me MH A member G. Kevi n Jones agreed to fund an annual student paper competi ti on at the uni versi ty l evel . Kevi n’ s generosity has allowed for an expansi on of thi s ki nd of competi ti on from to seven universities with programs speci fi c to Mormon studi es. Thi s aw ard i s gi ven in honor of Professor D avi s Bi tton.

Awa r d e d f or t he bes t publish e d a r t icle o n Mo rmo n h ist o r y. F u n d ed by the Ha r tle y Foundat ion t o honor n o t e d Mo r mo n h ist o r ia n W illia m G. Hartl ey.

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BYU Religious Studies Center Edited by Reid L. Neilson and R. Mark Melville, A Historian in Zion tells the story of Andrew Jenson, who served as Assistant Church Historian of the LDS Church for over forty his personal journals and church records to help tell the story of the Restoraimportant window into the Mormon past.

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Written by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Sacred Space sorts through the complicated history of where the Church was established and illuminates what the sacredness of a place means for modern-day members.

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President Uchtdorf ’s keynote address begins this compilation of scholarly papers presented at the BYU Church History Symposium.

Mormon exodus from Nauvoo to a new mountain home “far away in the West.”

and text that traces the unique details that help tell the stories of each of Provo’s two temples.

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MHA CONFERENCES 2016 51 ST SNOWBIRD, UTAH 2015 50 TH PROVO, UTAH 2014 49 TH SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 2013 48 TH LAYTON, UTAH 2012 47 TH CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA 2011 46 TH ST. GEORGE, UTAH 2010 45 TH INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI 2009 44 TH SPRINGFI ELD, ILLINOIS 2008 43 RD SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 2007 42 ND SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 2006 41 ST CASPER, WYOMING 2005 40 TH KILLINGTON, VERMONT 2004 39 TH PROVO, UTAH 2003 38 TH KIRTLAND/CLEVELAND, OHIO 2002 37 TH TUCSON, ARIZONA 2001 36 TH CEDAR CITY, UTAH 2000 35 TH AALBORG, DENMARK 1999 34 TH OGDEN, UTAH 1998 33 RD WASHINGTON, D.C. 1997 32 ND OMAHA, NEBRASKA 1996 31 ST SNOWBIRD, UTAH 1995 30 TH KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA 1994 29 TH PARK CITY, UTAH 1993 28 TH LAMONI, IOWA 1992 27 TH ST. GEORGE, UTAH 1991 26 TH CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA 1990 25 TH LAIE, HAWAII 1989 24 TH QUINCY, ILLINOIS 1988 23 RD LOGAN, UTAH 1987 22 ND OXFORD, ENGLAND 1986 21 ST SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1985 20 TH INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI 1984 19 TH PROVO, UTAH 1983 18 TH OMAHA, NEBRASKA 1982 17 TH OGDEN, UTAH 1981 16 TH REXBURG, IDAHO 1980 15 TH CANANDAIGUA, NEW YORK 1979 14 TH LAMONI, IOWA 1978 13 TH LOGAN, UTAH 1977 12 TH KIRTLAND, OHIO 1976 11 TH ST. GEORGE, UTAH 1975 10 TH PROVO, UTAH 1974 9 TH NAUVOO, ILLINOIS 1973 8 TH SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 1972 7 TH INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI 1971 6 TH PROVO, UTAH 1970 5 TH LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 1969 4 TH SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 1968 3 RD SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA 1967 2 ND PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA 1966 1 ST PORTLAND, OREGON 1965 (ORGANIZED) SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

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Leonard Arrington and the

Writing of Mormon History Gregory A. Prince The most comprehensive biography of Leonard Arrington to date—a story of scholarship and controversy

$39.95 $31.96

Women and Mormonism Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman A combination of thematic, cultural, and historical approaches to the study of Mormon women

$34.95 $27.96

A Faded Legacy Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872–1959

Directions for Mormon Study in the Twenty-First Century

Alma Richards, Olympian Larry R. Gerlach

Edited by Patrick Mason

The story of America’s most accomplished

Mormon Studies

win an Olympic gold metal

$29.00 $23.20

$34.95 $27.96 Forthcoming in July

Mormonism and the Making of a British Zion Matthew Lyman Rasmussen

A Kingdom Transformed Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church SECOND EDITION

Dave Hall Social worker, progressive, and activist Amy Mormon women’s lives and concerns

in Britain

Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd

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The evolution of LDS doctrinal emphases explored through content analysis of General Conference rhetoric

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The Mormon Experience in Perspective EDITED BY ROBERT A. GOLDBERG AND W. PAUL REEVE The Juanita Brooks Prize in Mormon Studies $10,000 Biennial Award and Publication Prize

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The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman | 1832–1877 Scott H. Partridge, editor

Rounding out our spring list with

GLORIOUS IN PERSECUTION

Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844 Martha Bradley-Evans ISLAND ADVENTURES

The Hawaiian Mission of Francis A. Hammond, 1851–1865 John J. Hammond THIRTEENTH APOSTLE

The Diaries of Amasa M. Lyman, 1832–1877 (Available June 20) Scott H. Partridge