Appointments

In summer term, Terry B. Ball began serving as the graduate coordinator of the master’s degree programs in Religious Education and Religious Studies—Military Chaplaincy.

Eric Huntsman and Kerry Muhlestein were advanced to the rank of professor of ancient scripture. Guy L. Dorius was advanced to the rank of teaching professor (Church history and doctrine).

Andrew C. Reed and Justin Dyer joined the full-time Church history and doctrine faculty on July 1, 2015.

Awards and Honors

At the Spring Social on March 21, Stanley A. Johnson received the B. West Belnap Citizenship Award. Kenneth L. Alford received the Richard Lloyd Anderson Research Award. Keith J. Wilson received the Robert J. Matthews Teaching Award. Ray L. Huntington, Devan Jensen, and Richard Lloyd Anderson each received the Dean’s Award for exceptional service. Matthew J. Grey received the Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (ancient scripture, academic scholarship) for “‘The Redeemer to Arise from the House of Dan’: Samson, Apocalypticism, and Messianic Hopes in Late Antique Galilee,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 44, no. 4–5 (2013): 553–89. Scott C. Esplin received the Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (academic scholarship) for his article (coauthored with E. Vance Randall), “Living in Two Worlds: The Development and Transition of Mormon Education in American Society,” History of Education 43, no. 1 (2014): 3–30. Camille Fronk Olson received the Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (ancient scripture, gospel scholarship) for Women of the New Testament (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014). Kip Sperry received the Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black Outstanding Publication Award (Church history and doctrine) for Nauvoo and Hancock County, Illinois: A Guide to Family History and Historical Sources (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014).

At the university Unforum on April 12, John L. Hilton received the Brigham Award for his teaching.

On June 5 the Mormon History Association awarded the Best International Article to Scott C. Esplin, E. Vance Randall, Casey P. Griffiths, and Barbara E. Morgan for “Isolationism, Exceptionalism, and Acculturation: The Internationalization of Mormon Education in Mexico,” Journal of Educational Administration and History 46, no. 4 (2014): 387–404. Rachel Cope was awarded the Best Article on Mormon Women’s History for “Composing Radical Lives: Women as Autonomous Religious Seekers and Nineteenth-Century Memoirs,” in Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature, ed. Mary McCarten Wearn (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2014), 45–58.

At the 2015 University Conference, Thomas A. Wayment received the Phi Kappa Phi Award and Bart J. Kowallis received the Religious Education Transfer Professor Award.

Emeritus/Retirements

John P. Livingstone (Church history and doctrine) retired in April.

D. Kelly Ogden (ancient scripture) retired in April.

In Memoriam

Leon R. Hartshorn (Church history and doctrine) passed away on August 11, 2015.