CONTRIBUTORS - Dialogue – A Journal of Mormon Thought

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KAREN D. AUSTIN {[email protected]} lives in Wichita,
Kansas, with her husband and two children. She has recently retired from decades of teaching college English in order to pursue a
master’s in Aging Studies. When she’s not doing homework or volunteering with older adults, she’s adding reviews to her Goodreads
account at a rate of one book a week.
JACOB BENDER {[email protected]} teaches English at
LDS Business College, and has degrees from BYU-Idaho and the
University of Utah. He is a native of Washington state, misses the
rain, and served an LDS mission in Puerto Rico.
RICHARD LYMAN BUSHMAN {[email protected]} with his
wife, Claudia, taught a course on contemporary Mormonism at Columbia University in the spring of 2012. He is currently working on
a study of eighteenth-century American farming and a cultural history of Joseph Smith’s gold plates.
ANDREW W. COOK {[email protected]} is a computational
physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He grew up
in Bountiful, Utah; served a Greek-speaking mission in Melbourne,
Australia; received his B.S. at the University of Utah and earned his
M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Washington. He and his wife
Ann have six children.
BRENT CORCORAN {[email protected]} is production manager for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and the
Journal of Mormon History. He has published three poems in Dialogue. He thanks Lavina Fielding Anderson, Gary James Bergera
and Mary Lythgoe Bradford for their helpful advice in preparing
this review.
WILFRIED DECOO {[email protected]} worked as professor of applied linguistics and education at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and at Brigham Young University. He retired in
2011. Besides books on linguistics, academic ethics, and education, he has also published various articles on international aspects
of the Mormon Church. He blogs at Times and Seasons.
JAMES E. FAULCONER {[email protected]} is Richard
L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding and a professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University. He publishes on contemporary European philosophy as well as Mormon studies and commentaries on scripture.
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RACHAEL GIVENS {[email protected]} graduated from
Brigham Young University with a degree in history. Currently working with the LDS Public Affairs department, she will be starting a
doctoral program at the University of Virginia next fall studying the
intersections of gender, theology, and rationality in Enlightenment
Spain and the transatlantic.
SCOTT HALES {[email protected]} is a Ph.D. candidate in
the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati. His thoughts on Mormon literature can be
found at The Low-Tech World: Exploring Mormon Literature (www.lowtechworld.org), Dawning of a Brighter Day (blog.mormonletters.
org), and Modern Mormon Men (www.modernmormonmen.com).
AMANDA HENDRIX-KOMOTO {[email protected]}
received her bachelor’s degree from the College of Idaho in
Caldwell, Idaho. After graduation, she taught elementary school
for three years as part of Teach for America and earned a master’s
degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Tired of supplying pencils for and tying the shoes
of thirty third graders, she applied to Ph.D. programs in history
and is now a Ph.D. candidate in the history department at the University of Michigan. She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband Jordan and cat Benny.
PATRICK Q. MASON {[email protected]} is Howard W.
Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and associate professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The
Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
(Oxford University Press, 2011), and co-editor, with David Pulsipher and Richard Bushman, of War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon
Perspectives (Greg Kofford Books, 2012).
NEYLAN MCBAINE is associate creative director at Bonneville
Communications, the agency responsible for the Church’s I’m A
Mormon campaign and Mormon.org. She is also the founder and
editor-in-chief of the Mormon Women Project, a 501(c)3 which
publishes interviews with LDS women from around the world at
www.mormonwomen.com. A graduate of Yale University, McBaine lives with her husband and three daughters in Salt Lake City.
BENJAMIN E. PARK {[email protected]} is a Ph.D.
candidate in history at the University of Cambridge where he fo-
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cuses on the cultural, religious, and intellectual history of early
America.
JONATHON PENNY {[email protected]} practices what
he professes in the United Arab Emirates, where he is assistant professor of English literature, a husband, and a father. His scholarship focuses on religion and literature and alternative modernisms. He also
writes poetry and fiction under his own name and as amanuensis to
Percival P. Pennywhistle, PhD. He is poetry editor at Wilderness Interface Zone, and, together with Jenny Jones Webb, a founding partner of Peas Porridge Press.
DAVID RUHLMAN is a self-taught artist working primarily in
gouache on wood panel. He has shown his artwork locally, nationally
and internationally. An early mantra for his art comes from the artist
Jean Dubuffet who stated, “Art should always make people laugh a little and frighten them a little. Anything but bore them. Art has no
right to be boring.” His work can be viewed at www.davidruhlman.
com.
JULIE M. SMITH {[email protected]} has an MA in biblical studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. She is the author of Search, Ponder, and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels. She lives near Austin, Texas, where she homeschools her children.
JOSEPH M. SPENCER {[email protected]} has degrees from
Brigham Young University, San Jose State University, and the University of New Mexico, and is currently a doctoral student in philosophy
at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of An Other Testament: On Typology, published by Salt Press in 2012, as well as For Zion:
A Mormon Theology of Hope, forthcoming from Greg Kofford Books.
He and Karen, his wife, live with their five children in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
JOHN G. TURNER teaches religious studies at George Mason University. He is the author of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Harvard
University Press, 2012).
SASKIA M. TIELENS {[email protected]} holds an MA in
American studies from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the Ruhr Center
for American Studies in Dortmund, Germany. She is writing her dissertation on the ritualization of history as seen in Mormon culture
and is especially interested in lived religion.