I had an MA in English literature then myself, but would not have presumed to attend such a gathering. My husband, Richard, was one of the founding members of the Mormon History Association, present at its first organizational meeting in San Francisco in 1965. Ever since that paper was welcomed, MHA has been his favorite academic conference. He has been attending MHA since 2005, when he presented a paper on LDS Bigfoot folklore. He is the author or co-editor of several books, including The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (Random House, 2012), Mormon Women in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (University of Utah, 2016), Christian: the Politics of a Word in America (Harvard, 2018), and the forthcoming The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters and the Fragmentation of America (Yale, 2023). Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California, where he directs the Center for Global Mormon Studies and teaches classes on American religion, twentieth century United States political and cultural history, religious globalization, and the supernatural. He is associate professor of religion and history and Howard W. Matthew Bowman holds degrees from Georgetown University and the University of Utah, where he studied American religious history and the history of Christianity.
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