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 University of Wisconsin–Madison. Fluhman also has a

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in American religious history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral dissertation was on 19th-century anti-Mormon literature. As a graduate student, Fluhman was part of a summer seminar on Mormon History at BYU run by Richard Bushman. 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 Washington D.C. South Mission, 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 Mormon History Association's Best First Book Award. On May 4, 2016, BYU announced that Fluhman had been appointed executive director of the

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. 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

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and Alonzo Gaskill) ;Journal articles * *

Notes

Sources

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