Laurie Maffly-Kipp, the Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, will be a 2019 visiting scholar at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University in Utah.
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The program will support her ongoing research into international Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints history, including travel to research-related locations and a spring semester in residence at the institute. Preliminary plans call for her to lead a seminar or symposium and to engage in collaborative research opportunities with scholars around the region, especially with women in related academic fields.
Maffly-Kipp’s research and teaching focus on African-American religions and intercultural contact between religious groups, including articles on Mormon-Protestant conflicts in the Pacific Islands and the growth of Mormonism internationally.