J. Spencer Fluhman is a professor of history at

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(BYU) in

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. Fluhman received a

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from BYU and a

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from the

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. Fluhman also has a Ph.D. in American religious history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral dissertation was on 19th-century

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. As a graduate student, Fluhman was part of a summer seminar on Mormon History at BYU run by

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. Fluhman has held a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI. Fluhman is a member of

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. He served as a

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in the church's

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South

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, which covered the

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suburbs of Washington and included the eastern panhandle of

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. At BYU, Fluhman has taught in both the History Department and the Department of Church History and Doctrine. In 2013, his book ''"A Peculiar People": Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America'' won the

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's Best First Book Award. On May 4, 2016, BYU announced that Fluhman had been appointed executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. As of late 2016 Fluhman was the co-chair of the Mormon Studies Group in the

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.Tad Walch, "The LDS church and the growing Mormon Studies Field", ''Deseret News'', Dec. 9, 2016
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Publications

;Books * *''The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context'' (with Andrew H. Hedges and Alonzo Gaskill) ;Journal articles * *

Notes

Sources

BYU bio of Fluhman
*Amazon.com entry on Fluhman
SpencerFluhman.com
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