Ethan Yorgason

ETHAN YORGASON is an adjunct assistant professor in history and international cultural studies at Brigham Young University—Hawai'i where he teaches geography, history, and Mormon studies. He is currently writing a book on Mormon geopolitics and invites readers to send him any thoughts on this far-too-broad topic at [email protected].

“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 2

The August 4, 1997, issue of Time featured on its cover a shot of the Angel Moroni atop the Salt Lake City Temple, illuminated against a night sky; the cover’s caption read “Mormons, Inc.: The…

The Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 4

“John Durham Peters may well be the most original thinker in the broad field of communication and media studies in the United States.” So claims Michael Schudson, professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego.

The Remembering and Forgetting of Utah County’s Landmarks | Jared Farmer, On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, critics regularly bemoaned what they regarded as the New Mormon History’s exceptionalist viewpoint. Jared Farmer’s On Zion’s Mount may finally shatter that perception. Or, alternatively, it may…