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Mormonism, Religion, and History

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Candace Lukasik
Mississippi State University
2
Gary F. Coppock
Terra
3
Casey P. Cater
Georgia State University
4
Hemopereki Simon
Institute of Social Work
5
Gary Ray Chard
Unknown
6
Tricia C. Bruce
University of Notre Dame
7
Christopher M. B. Allison
Unknown
8
Kelli N. Morrill
Unknown
9
Ronald Errol Bartholomew
Unknown
10
Jacob W. Olmstead
Unknown

Rising Stars Papers

1
The “abortion imaginary”: Shared perceptions and personal representations among everyday Americans
Science Advances|2024
12 cit.
2
Genealogical Violence: Mormon (Mis)Appropriation of Māori Cultural Memory through Falsification of Whakapapa
Genealogy|2024
8 cit.
3
Are the Treaty Principles Needed in The Bay of Plenty?: A Critical Reexamination of the Fedarb (Bay of Plenty) Sheet of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
International Indigenous Policy Journal|2024
2 cit.
4
The Biculturalism Crisis and Te Papa Tongarewa: A Plea for <i>Tikanga</i>-Based Governance and Decolonisation
Public humanities.|2025
2 cit.
5
The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes Dana M. Moss (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Pp. 294. $29.99 paper. ISBN: 9781108845533
International Journal Middle East Studies|2024
0 cit.
6
Book Review: The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority SachsAvigail, The Garden in the Machine: Planning and Democracy in the Tennessee Valley Authority. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023.
Journal of Planning History|2024
0 cit.
7
Asking to Listen: Engaging Social Scientific Methods as a Listening Practice in Global Catholicism
Journal of Moral Theology|2024
0 cit.
8
Introduction to Special Issue: What is “Critical” about “Critical Coptic Studies”?
Exchange|2025
0 cit.
9
Inland: The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation
Pennsylvania History A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies|2025
0 cit.
10
Decolonizing Lamanite Studies—A Critical and Decolonial Indigenist Perspective
Religions|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Christopher H. Rosik
Fresno Pacific University
2
Alex Uzdavines
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
3
Zheguang Zhao
Technische Universität Darmstadt
4
Jana Riess
Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies
5
Anita Harker
Whatcom Community College
6
Justin Lee
St. Peter's Hospital
7
Aubrey L. Beck
Utah State University
8
Clinton D. Christensen
Unknown
9
Sarah K. Cowan
Office of Technology Transfer
10
Erin S. Nelson
University of South Alabama

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Do Pregnancy Intentions Matter? A Research Note Revisiting Relationships Among Pregnancy, Birth, and Maternal Outcomes
Demography|2022
39 cit.
2
Stasis and Sorting of Americans’ Abortion Opinions: Political Polarization Added to Religious and Other Differences
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World|2022
36 cit.
3
Examining the Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer on Fertility
Social Forces|2022
31 cit.
4
Sexual Health Assessment Is Vital to Whole Health Models of Care
JMIRx Med|2022
31 cit.
5
Pregnancy intentions' relationship with infant, pregnancy, maternal, and early childhood outcomes: Evidence from births in Alaska, Missouri, and Oklahoma
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health|2023
26 cit.
6
Updating a Time-Series of Survey Questions: The Case of Abortion Attitudes in the General Social Survey
Sociological Methods & Research|2022
24 cit.
7
Discordant benevolence: How and why people help others in the face of conflicting values
Science Advances|2022
12 cit.
8
The “abortion imaginary”: Shared perceptions and personal representations among everyday Americans
Science Advances|2024
12 cit.
9
Estimating the Effect of a Universal Cash Transfer on Birth Outcomes
American Sociological Review|2024
12 cit.
10
Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Hospitalized Older Adult High-Cost Health Care Users: A Pilot Study
The Canadian Journal of Hospital Pharmacy|2022
11 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Jan Vansina
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2
Léo Marx
Debiopharm (Switzerland)
3
Laurence R. Iannaccone
Chapman University
4
Mark Chaves
Hospital Felício Rocho
5
Ann Taves
University of California, Santa Barbara
6
David S. Reynolds
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals (United States)
7
Barbara E. Taylor
Max Planck Society
8
Randall Balmer
Dartmouth College
9
Christopher Newfield
University of California, Santa Barbara
10
Mark A. Noll
Wheaton College - Illinois

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Introduction to the Economics of Religion
Journal of Economic Literature|1998
1.6k cit.
2
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
The American Historical Review|1965
1.4k cit.
3
Why Strict Churches Are Strong
American Journal of Sociology|1994
1.3k cit.
4
Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free-riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives
Journal of Political Economy|1992
1.2k cit.
5
Literacy in Traditional Societies
African Historical Studies|1969
1.2k cit.
6
A Supply-Side Reinterpretation of the "Secularization" of Europe
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|1994
908 cit.
7
Oral Tradition as History
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1986
744 cit.
8
Religious Practice: A Human Capital Approach
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|1990
740 cit.
9
Secularization as Declining Religious Authority
Social Forces|1994
694 cit.
10
Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism.
The Journal of Military History|1995
685 cit.

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