21st Annual Arrington Mormon Lecture Series Speaker Announced
Dr. Quincy D. Newell, a specialist in the religious history of the American West, is the featured speaker at the 21st annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture Thursday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m., Logan LDS Tabernacle.
Quincy D. Newell, a specialist in the religious history of the American West, is the featured speaker at the 21st annual Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lecture, an event coordinated by Utah State University’s Special Collections and Archives, a division of University Libraries.
Newell presents “Narrating Jane: Telling the Story of an Early African American Mormon Woman” Thursday, Sept. 24, at the Logan LDS Tabernacle. The free lecture begins at 7 p.m. and all are invited.
The subject of the lecture, Jane Elizabeth Manning James, was among the early African American converts to Mormonism.
The evening’s speaker is a respected educator who, after more than a decade on the religious studies faculty at the University of Wyoming, now teaches in the religious studies department at Hamilton College in New York.
Brad Cole, director of Special Collections and Archives at USU and interim dean for University Libraries, coordinates the lecture series on behalf of USU. He’s had a long association with both the lecture series and the Arrington Foundation.
“We are very excited to have Quincy Newell as this year’s Arrington Mormon History lecturer,” he said. “Dr. Newell represents a wave of young historians who are exploring new topics in Mormon history. In addition to her work on Jane Elizabeth Manning James (an early African American convert to Mormonism) she is also examining Native American Mormons in the early Utah Mormon church.
Cole said Newell’s contribution to the lecture series will inform the audience about lesser known aspects of Mormonism and minorities in the 19th century.
Newell’s first book, Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco, 1776-1821, was published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2009. With Eric F. Mason, she co-edited New Perspectives in Mormon Studies, published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2013. She has also published numerous articles in journals and essay collections.
She is currently writing a biography of Jane Elizabeth Manning James, to be published by Oxford University Press.
The annual lecture honors Leonard J. Arrington, whose papers were donated to USU’s Special Collections and Archives. Part of the gift agreement was to offer an annual lecture on some facet of Mormon history.
The Arrington Mormon History Lecture is open to everyone. It is at the Logan LDS Tabernacle, 50 N. Main. It is sponsored by USU Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, the Leonard J. Arrington Lecture and Archives Foundation; the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Utah State University.
Related link:
USU Special Collections and Archives
USU Special Collections Current Events/Arrington Lecture
Contact: Brad Cole, (435) 797-8268, brad.cole@usu.edu
Writer: Patrick Williams, (435) 797-1354, patrick.williams@usu.edu
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