David Frank Holland (born 1973) is an American professor and historian. He is currently the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at

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and the director of graduate studies in religion at

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. Holland was previously an associate professor of history at

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Biography

Holland graduated summa cum laude with a

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in history from

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(BYU) and subsequently received a MA and

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in history from Stanford University. While he was a graduate student Holland took a summer seminar in Mormon History at BYU with

Richard Bushman Richard Lyman Bushman (June 20, 1931) is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, having previously taught at Brigham Young University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the Univ ...

. He has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Yale's Center for Religion and American Life. Holland's noted articles include "From Anne Hutchinson to Horace Bushnell: A New Take on the New England Sequence" (''

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'', 2005), and " 'A Mixed Construction of Subversion and Conversion': The Complicated Lives and Times of Religious Women" (''Gender and History'', 2010). In 2011, Holland was named the Nevada professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Personal life

Holland is a member of

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and a son of

Jeffrey R. Holland Jeffrey Roy Holland (born December 3, 1940) is an American educator and religious leader. He served as the List of presidents of Brigham Young University, ninth President of Brigham Young University (BYU) and is a member of the Quorum of the Twe ...

and Patricia T. Holland. He served as a

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for the Church in

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and was a

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in Nevada. Since August 2020, he has been serving as

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of the church's Worcester Massachusetts Stake.

Published works

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References

External links

Harvard University Profile of David F. HollandHarvard Divinity School announcement of Holland's appointmentReview of Holland's ''Sacred Borders''
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