Publications
The publications and achievements listed here represent the work which faculty members and graduate students at the University of Utah have produced.
Sister Saints:
Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy
By Professor Colleen McDannell
Religion of a Different Color:
Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
By Professor W. Paul Reeve
- W. Paul Reeve, "'I Dug the Graves': Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions,"Journal of Mormon History, 47, No. 1 (January 2021), 29-67.
- W. Paul Reeve, “Reconstruction, Religion, and the West: The Great Impeacher Meets the Mormons,” Journal of Mormon History, 46, no. 2 (April 2020): 5-45.
- W. Paul Reeve, “Century of Black Mormons: A Preliminary Interpretation of the Data,” Current Research in Digital History, vol. 2 (2019).
- Jeremy Talmage, "Black, White, and Red All Over: Skin Color in the Book of Mormon," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 28, no. 1 (2019): 46-68.
- Matthew S. McBride, “Female Brethren’: Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915," Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 4 (October 2018): 40-67.
- Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Buttons, Banners, and Pie: Mormon Women’s Grassroots Movements: “Equality Yes, ERA No” versus “Another Mormon for ERA,”Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 4 (October 2018): 112-137.
- Joseph R. Stuart, “A More Powerful Effect Upon the Body’: Early Mormonism’s Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 87, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 768-796.
- Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Scribbling Women in Zion: Mormon Women’s Fascination with Fanny Fern,” Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 1 (January 2018), 74-94.
- Jeremy Talmage and Clinton D. Christensen, “Black, White, or Brown? Racial Perceptions and the Priesthood Policy in Latin America,” Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 1 (January 2018), 119-145.
- Jeffrey Mahas, “I Intend to Get Up a Whistling School’: The Nauvoo Whistling and Whittling Movement, American Vigilante Tradition, and Mormon Theocratic Thought," Journal of Mormon History 43, no. 4 (Fall 2017): 37-67.
- Colleen McDannell, “Mexicans, Tourism, and Book of Mormon Geography,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 50, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 55-86.
- Nathan Lassen Jones, “The Ancient Order and the New Measures: Early Mormon Temple Worship and Finneyite Revivalism,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 2 (April 2016): 110-138.
- Joseph R. Stuart, “Our Religion is Not Hostile to Real Science’: Evolution, Eugenics, and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism’s First Century,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 1 (January 2016): 1-43.
- Cassandra L. Clark, “No True Religion without True Science’: Science and the Construction of Mormon Whiteness,” Journal of Mormon History 42, no. 1 (January 2016): 44-72.
- Bruce Worthen, “A Member of the Family: Dr. John Milton Bernhisel and the Aftermath of the Death of Joseph Smith,” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 36, no. 1 (2016): 110-130.
- Bruce Worthen, “Zachary Taylor is Dead and in Hell and I am Glad of It!”, Utah Historical Quarterly 83, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 85-97.
- Colleen McDannell, “Mormon Gender in the Mid-Twentieth Century,” in Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 2020), 143-156.
- Joseph R. Stuart and Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, “Race and Gender in Mormonism, 1830-1978,” in Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 2020), 26-37.
- Margaret Toscano, “Men and the Priesthood,” in Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (New York: Routledge, 2020), 580-597.
- Colleen McDannell, “Heritage Religion and the Mormons,” in Ivan Gaskell and Sarah Anne Carter, eds., The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture(New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), 337-354.
- W. Paul Reeve, “The Council of Fifty and the Search for Religious Liberty,” in The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History, ed. by Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith (Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2017), 181-190.
- Colleen McDannell, “Mormons and Materialism: Struggling against the Ideology of Separation,” in Hugh McLeod and David Hempton, eds. Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), 121-140.
- W. Paul Reeve, All “Mormon Elder-Berry’s” Children: Race, Whiteness, and the Attack on Mormon “Anglo-Saxon Triumphalism” in Directions for Mormon Studies in the 21st Century, ed. by Patrick Mason (University of Utah Press, 2016), 152-175.
- W. Paul Reeve, “The Mormon Church in Utah,” in The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism, ed. by Terryl L. Givens and Philip L. Barlow (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015), 38-54.
- Margaret Toscano, “Retrieving the Keys: Historical Milestones in LDS Women’s Quest for Priesthood Ordination,” in Voices for Equality: Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism, ed. Gary Shepherd, Gordon Shepherd, and Lavina Fielding Anderson (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2015), 137-166.
- Margaret Toscano, “Movement from the Margins: Contemporary Mormon Women’s Visions of the Mother God,” in Spirit, Faith and Church: Women’s Experiences in the English Speaking World, 17th -21st Century, ed. Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Claire Sorin (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), 207-226.
- “Mormon Morality and Immortality in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series,” in Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise, ed. Melissa Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, and Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), 21-36.
- Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Scribbling Women in Zion: Latter-day Saint Women’s Vision of Restoration,” PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2020.
- Sam Newton, “Blood and Thunder: Joseph Smith and Mormon Resistance in Antebellum America,
1827 - 1844,” PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2020.
- Assistant Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Idaho.
- Justin R. Bray, “Hoary Heads in Zion: Old Age, Elderhood, and the Latter-day Saints,” History PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2020.
- Robin Scott Jensen, “Archives of the Better World: The Nineteenth-Century Historian’s
Office and Mormonism’s Archival Flexibility,” PhD Dissertation, University of Utah,
2019.
- Associate Managing Historian, Joseph Smith Papers, Church History Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Nathan Jones, “In the Nation of Promise: Mormon Political Thought in the Twentieth Century,” PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2019.
- Research Assistant, Joseph Smith Papers, Church History Department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Bruce Worthen, “Out of the West: John M. Bernhisel, Washington, and the Mormon Frontier,” PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2018.
- Jeremy Chatelain, “The Imprint of the Press: A Cultural History of the Influence of Nineteenth-Century American Print on Mormonism in Kirtland, Ohio, 1831-1837,” Communication PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2018.
- Heather Stone, “Young Women in Mormon Homelands, 1975-2000: An Oral History Project,” Communication PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2018.
- John Ben Haws, “The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Shaping Public Perception of Latter-day Saints,
1968-2008,” History PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, 2010.
- Associate Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University
Paul Reeve, President, Mormon History Association,2018-2019
Colleen McDannell, editorial board, Journal of Mormon History
Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, editorial board, Journal of Mormon History
Colleen McDannell, American Academy of Religion, Mormon Studies Steering Committee, 2010-2018; co-Chair,
2014
Joseph R. Stuart, Mormon History Association Conference co-chair, 2020, 2021
2020
- Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Restoration of Womankind.”
- Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award, Mormon History Association
2019
- Colleen McDannell, Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
- Mary Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians
- Best Book (Honorable Mention), Mormon History Association
- Matthew S. McBride, “Female Brethren’: Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915,” Journal of Mormon History 44, no. 4 (October 2018): 40-67.
- Best Article, Mormon History Association
- Joseph R. Stuart, “A More Powerful Effect Upon the Body’: Early Mormonism’s Theory of Racial Redemption
and American Religious Theories of Race,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 87, no. 3 (Fall 2018): 768-796.
- Article Award of Excellence, Mormon History Association
2018
- Jeffrey D. Mahas, “I Intend to Get Up a Whistling School’: The Nauvoo Whistling and Whittling Movement,
American Vigilante Tradition, and Mormon Theocratic Thought," Journal of Mormon History 43, no. 4 (October 2017): 37-67.
- Article Award of Excellence, Mormon History Association
- Matthew Lund, “Missionary Widows: The Economic and Social Impact of Mormon Missions
on Families.”
- Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award, Mormon History Association
2017
- Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Scribbling Women in Zion: Mormon Women’s Fascination with
Fanny Fern.”
- Helen Z. Papanikolas Award, Utah State Historical Society
2016
- W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
- Best Book, Mormon History Association
- Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association
- Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award, Utah State Historical Society
- Joseph R. Stuart, “Our Religion is Not Hostile to Real Science’: Evolution, Eugenics,
and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism’s First Century.”
- Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award, Mormon History Association
- Joseph R. Stuart, “Those Days Will Live in Memory…Because they were Full of Pain’:
A Nineteenth-Century Case Study for Religious Disappointment.”
- Helen Z. Papanikolas Award, Utah State Historical Society
2015
- Charlotte Hansen Terry, “Rhetoric vs. Reality: Mormon Women’s Diaries and Domesticity
in the Early Twentieth Century.”
- Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award, Mormon History Association
2014
- Justin R. Bray, “No Hard Feelings’: The Lord’s Supper and Community Worship in Early
Mormon Utah.”
- Unpublished Graduate Paper Award of Merit, Mormon History Associatio