Laurie Maffly-Kipp

LAURIE F. MAFFLY-KIPP {[email protected]} is the Archer Alexander Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, and director of the Program in Religious Studies. Her research and teaching focus on African American religions, Mormonism, and religion on the Pacific borderlands of the Americas. Her publications include Religion and Society in Frontier California (Yale University Press, 1994) and Setting Down the Sacred Past: AfricanAmerican Race Histories (Harvard University Press, 2010). Currently she is working on a survey of Mormonism in American life that will be published by Basic Books. Prof. Maffly-Kipp is a past president of the American Society of Church History and served in 2015–16 as the president of the Mormon History Association.

Review: More than a Different Color W. Paul Reeve. Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

Among Latter-day Saint academics, few have achieved the professional stature or exerted the intellectual influence of Richard Lyman Bushman. Gordon Wood, a member of the blue-ribbon panel featured here and a scholar with few peers in the historical discipline, calls Bushman “one of our most distinguished American historians.” Generous and dignified as well, Richard Bushman is the proverbial “gentleman and a scholar.” His words and deeds have touched many lives across the span of his more than fifty-year academic career. To commemorate that career on the eve of his eightieth birthday, it seemed fitting to honor him among his professional colleagues and friends at the January 2011 annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA).

Odysseus in the Underworld | Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death

Articles/Essays – Volume 46, No. 1

In a remarkably deft work of scholarship, Samuel Morris Brown offers a rich and compelling view of early Mormonism’s sacramental and theological emergence up to the death of Joseph Smith Jr. This book makes many…