Laurie Maffly-Kipp

LAURIE F. MAFFLY-KIPP {[email protected]} is the Archer Alexan￾der Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, and director of the Program in Religious Stud￾ies. 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: African￾American 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

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A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 3

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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

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