10/03/2026
Latter-day Histories Lectures are back!
Save the Date: October 15th, 2026 at 7pm MDT on Zoom
The first lecture of this season will be “Richard Lymann Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador,” and we welcome J. B. Haws as the speaker and Kristine Haglund as a respondent.
Registration is FREE, and the lecture will be held online through Zoom.
Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NuJ4txnEQGuRClfH-_CfGg
J. B. Haws is the Executive Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and a professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU. He is the author of Richard Lyman Bushman: A Mormon Ambassador (University of Illinois Press, 2026) andThe Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception (Oxford, 2013). His PhD is in American History from the University of Utah. His research centers on the religious landscape of twentieth- and twenty-first-century America, including public perceptions of Latter-day Saints, trends in contemporary Latter-day Saint historical scholarship, and interfaith engagement. He previously coordinated BYU’s Office of Religious Outreach (2016–2018) and, before joining the BYU faculty, taught seminary in Salt Lake and Weber Counties. He also served a Spanish-speaking mission in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Kristine Haglund holds degrees in German Studies and German Literature from Harvard and the University of Michigan. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in American Studies at St. Louis University, planning a dissertation on Mormon business history at the turn of the 20th century. She is the author of Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal, part of the series “Introductions to Mormon Thought,” published by the University of Illinois Press. She was the editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 2009 to 2015. She has been active in the Mormon blogging community since its inception and currently blogs (very occasionally!) at By Common Consent. Haglund has served as Vice President of Mormon Scholars in the Humanities and on the board of Common Consent Press. She was Program Co-Chair with Richard Bushman for the 2022 Mormon History Association conference in Logan, Utah. A Southern girl who lived most of her adult life in Boston, where she raised three children