Call for Applications: Research Grants at the Church History Department
The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites applications for grants to conduct research in its archival, art, and artifactual collections in Salt Lake City, Utah. The department intends to award three types of grants in 2023:
Domestic Young Scholar: for graduate students, recent graduates, or young professionals living in the United States and researching in Latter-day Saint history, Latter-day Saint art history, or Latter-day Saint studies. This grant, of up to $5,000, is intended to facilitate approximately one week (or more) of research at the Church History Library and/or Museum. Up to three grants may be awarded.
International Young Scholar: for advanced students, recent graduates, or young professionals living outside the United States and researching in Latter-day Saint history, Latter-day Saint art history, or Latter-day Saint studies. This grant, of up to $9,500, is intended to facilitate approximately three weeks (or more) of research at the Church History Library and/or Museum. Up to two grants may be awarded.
Latter-day Saint Project of Significance: for a more experienced scholar, either within or outside the United States, conducting research on a significant project in Latter-day Saint history, Latter-day Saint art history, or Latter-day Saint studies. This grant, of up to $20,000, is intended to facilitate either multiple trips to the Church History Library and/or Museum over an extended period or a single lengthy stay.
To apply for a grant, please submit the following:
Dialogue’s Board of Directors announces a search for a new editor-in-chief to begin in 2024. You can read the original call for applicants HERE.
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has long served as the journal of record for the intellectual and cultural life of the Mormon people. Thanks to more than five decades of work by editors, authors, and the Board, Dialogue continues to provide space for some of the community’s most vibrant thinking on cultural, historical, theological, and social issues, and remains the premier literary repository for the tradition. Dialogue is a quarterly subscription-based print journal, and all of our content–current and archived–is freely available on our new website at the moment of publication. In addition, Dialogue now has a substantial internet presence with web-only content.
The journal publishes four issues per annual volume. Submissions and peer review are managed through a system provided by the University of Illinois Press. The new editor will continue to liaise with the Press to ensure the journal’s visibility, as well as with the Dialogue Board to build upon the journal’s strengths and fulfill the Dialogue Foundation’s mission. Further, the editor will be expected to be engaged in relevant scholarly and cultural organizations by representing the journal at conferences and other events.
“This Prison… of a Crooked, Broken, Scattered, and Imperfect Language”
June 1-3 2023
Conference Schedule
The full schedule for the conference can be found on this page.
Throughout Mormonism’s scriptural canon, individuals struggle with what Joseph Smith lamented was “this prison… of a crooked, broken, scattered, and imperfect language”. Contemporary scholars, too struggle with “imperfect language”, hemmed in by disciplinary boundaries, language barriers in sources and publication outlets, and a mismatch between terms and definitions native to academic study and religious movements. Many diverse voices remain largely absent from global Mormon studies.
Conference Registration
GMS 2023 is a free conference; however, you must register to get access to sessions, other events, and the Slack workspace where we will share information and encourage conversations. You can register for the conference at this link.
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