Taylor G. Petrey
Kalamazoo College
1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006
EMPLOYMENT
Current
Professor, Kalamazoo College, Religion Department, 2023-
Past
Associate Professor, Kalamazoo College, Religion Department, 2016-2023 Research Associate and Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and
Sexuality, Harvard University Women’s Studies in Religion Program, 2016-2017 Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion, 2013-2016
Assistant Professor, Kalamazoo College, Religion Department, 2010-2016
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University Committee on the Study of Religion, 2008-2010
Professional Leadership
Advisory Committee, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University, 2026-Founder/Director, EugeneEnglandSummerInstitute.com, 2025-
- 501c3 summer junior scholar writing workshop co-lead
Editor in Chief, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2019-2025 (term)
- Manage quarterly journal, podcasts, events; budget; employees and contractors Board of Directors, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2025-
Editorial Board, “Sexing Scripture” with Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2025-Editorial Board, Reading Religion, 2022-
Institutional Leadership
Chair, Religion Department, 2018-2025
- Diversified department faculty, curriculum reform, managed programming Elected Chair, Faculty Executive Committee (comparable to faculty senate) 2020-2023
- COVID leadership, faculty salary increases with Board of Trustees, new DEI committee Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, 2012-2016
- Tripled course enrollment, established new major, gained new half-line in program
EDUCATION
Doctorate of Theology, Harvard Divinity School Masters of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School Bachelor of Arts, Pace University, Summa cum laude
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Queering Kinship the Mormon Cosmos (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Awards: “Best Religious Non-fiction Finalist,” Association of Mormon Letters
Reviews: ARC Magazine, Association of Mormon Letters (x2), Religious Studies Review, Dialogue
Tabernacles of Clay: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Mormonism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020)
Awards: “Best Book,” Mormon History Association; 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; “Best Book (Non-fiction) Finalist,” Association of Mormon Letters
Reviews: Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, Starred Review; Library Journal, Essential Review, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; Salt Lake Tribune; Journal of the American Academy of Religion; American Religion; Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought; Segullah; Association of Mormon Letters; Mormon Studies Review; BYU Studies; Reading Religion, Nova Religio
Book Panels: American Academy of Religion; Mormon History Association; Sunstone
Reprints: The Revealer
Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference (New York: Routledge, 2015)
Reviews: Marginalia: LA Review of Books, Reading Religion, Religion and Gender
Edited Volumes
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, Eric and Eliason, eds. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023)
Awards: “Best Religious Non-Fiction Finalist,” Association of Mormon Letters
Reviews: Nova Religio; Association for Mormon Letters, Times and Seasons, Mormon Studies Review; Journal of Mormon History
The Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender, Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2020)
Awards: Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, “Highly Recommended Title,” May 2021
Reviews: Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Reading Religion, Mormon Studies Review;
Association of Mormon Letters
Re-Making the World: Early Christianity and Categories. Essays in Honor of Karen L. King, Taylor G. Petrey, ed. With Carly Daniel-Hughes, Benjamin Dunning, AnneMarie Luijendijk, and Laura Nasrallah, associate eds. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019)
Reviews: New Testament Abstracts
Biblical Interpretation: History, Context, Reality. Christine Helmer with Taylor Petrey, eds., (SBL SympS; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005)
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Marcion, Resurrection, and Sex,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Special Issue: Articulations of Human Flourishing, under review.
“History and Theology of Trans and Non-Binary Identity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” Dialogue 60.2 (Summer, 2026 forthcoming).
“After a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology: A Ten Year Retrospective,” Dialogue 54.4 (Winter, 2021): 111-37.
“Silence and Absence: Feminist Philosophical Implications of Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother,”
Sophia: International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions 59 (2020): 57-68.
“Theorizing Critical Mormon Biblical Studies: Romans 1:18-32,” and “Continuing Dialogue,”
Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology 8.1 (2019) Special Issue dedicated to this article and responses to it.
“Gender and the History of Sexuality in Clement of Alexandria and Epiphanes,” Early Christianity 9.3 (2018): 319-41
“Rethinking Mormonism’s Heavenly Mother,” Harvard Theological Review 109.3 (2016): 315-41
“Semen Stains: Patrilineal Descent and the Genealogy of Salvation in Tertullian,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 22.3 (2014): 343-72
“Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 44.4 (2011): 106-141.
Awards: 2011 Best Article in Dialogue
Reprints: Common Ground, Different Opinions: Latter-day Saints and Contemporary Issues.
Ed. Justin F. White and James E. Faulconer (Salt Lake City: Kofford Books, 2013), 85-108.
Chapters
“‘So Much to Celebrate?’ LGBTQ Identities in Matt Easton’s Convocation Address,” in Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory edited by Richard Benjamin Crosby and Isaac James Richards (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2026).
“Mormonism and Sexual Minorities,” in Engaging Modernity: Secularism, Culture, and the Latter-day Saints, G. Eric Jarvis, Catherine Jarvis, Daniel Cere, Víctor Muñiz-Fraticelli, eds. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, under review).
“A Reluctant Historian,” in Writing Mormon History, Volume II, ed. Joseph Geisner (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024), 321-52.
“Bodies and Embodiment,” in The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus, Chris Keith and James Crossley, eds. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2024), 383-98.
“Introduction: Latter-day Saints and Biblical Scholarship,” in The Bible and the Latter-
day Saint Tradition, Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, Eric and Eliason, eds. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023)
“Paul and Acts of the Apostles” in The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, Eric and Eliason, eds. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023)
“Introduction to Mormonism and Gender Studies” with Amy Hoyt in The Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender, Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2020)
“Theologies of Sexuality” in The Routledge Handbook on Mormonism and Gender, Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2020)
“Cosmic Gender: Valentinianism and Contested Accounts of Sexual Difference,” in Re-Making the World: Early Christianity and Categories. Essays in Honor of Karen L. King, Taylor G. Petrey, ed. With Carly Daniel-Hughes, Benjamin H. Dunning, AnneMarie Luijendijk, and Laura Nasrallah, associate eds. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019)
“The Resurrection Body” in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in the New Testament, ed. Benjamin H. Dunning (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019)
“Sexual Transgression: Early Church,” in The [Oxford] Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies. ed. Julia M. O’Brien. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
“Purity and Parallels: Constructing the Apostasy Narrative of Early Christianity,” in Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy. Miranda Wilcox and John Young, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
“A Valentinian Exposition,” in Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity (Online) General Editor David G. Hunter, Paul J.J. van Geest, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, 2024.
“Review: Candida Moss, Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)” in Journal of Disability and Religion (2022)
“Review: Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019)” in Reading Religion (May 2021)
“Review: David Walker, Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019)” in Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Spring 2020).
“Review: Jonathan A. Stapley, The Powers of Godliness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)”
“Review: Outi Lehtipuu, Debates Over the Resurrection of the Dead: Constructing Early Christian Identity” Journal of Early Christian Studies 25:4 (2017): 646-648
“Review: Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, Hannah Wheelwright, eds. Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings” Mormon Studies Review 4 (2017): 103-107
“Finding Mormon Theology Again: Review of Terryl Givens, Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 49.1 (2016): 149-52
“Sophia” in Encyclopedia of Ancient History Phase 2, ed. Roger Bagnall (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
Entries on “Irenaeus,” “Athenagoras,” “Apocryphon of John,” “Epiphanius,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Eric Orlin (New York: Routledge, 2016)
“Review: Susanna Drake, Slandering the Jew: Sexuality and Difference in Early Christian Texts (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2013)” in Marginalia: Los Angeles Review of Books online (September 30, 2014)
“Review: Nicola Denzey Lewis, Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity: Under Pitiless Skies (Leiden: Brill, 2013)” in Journal of Early Christian Studies 22:4 (Winter 2014), 593-94
“Review: Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts by L. Stephanie Cobb (New York: Columbia, 2008)” in Biblical Theology Bulletin 40.3 (2010): 164
DISSERTATION AND EXAM COMMITTEES
Emma Tueller Stone, Dissertation Committee, Cambridge University, 2025-Cathy Gilmore, Dissertation Committee, University of Utah, 2025-
Meagan Mulkern, General Exam Committee, University of Southern California, March 2025
Kit Hermanson, “Believing in Sex: Non-Binary Gender, Science, and Religion in the Nineteenth Century United States,” Columbia University, February 2025
Elizabeth Brocious, “Mormon Habitus and the Making of Religious Subjects: Reassessing Anthropological Discourse in Latter-day Saint Theology,” University of Chicago, November 2024
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
Awards
- “Best Book (Non-fiction) Finalist,” Association of Mormon Letters, (Queering Kinship)
- “Best Book,” Mormon History Association, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- “Best Book (Non-fiction) Finalist,” Association of Mormon Letters, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- Starred Review, Publishers Weekly, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- Starred Review; Library Journal, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- Essential Review, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, (Tabernacles of Clay)
- 2011 Best Article in Dialogue: “Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought v44n4 (Winter, 2011): 106-141
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University, 2005, 2010
- Charles H. Dyson Award, Pace University Arts and Sciences Student of the Year, 2001
- Philosophy and Religious Studies Award, Pace University, 2001
- Honors Program Medallion Recipient, Pace University, 2001
Fellowships
- Research Associate, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School 2016-17
- Fellow at Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship (Brigham Young University) 2010-2013
- Smith Institute Fellow, Brigham Young University, Summer 2001
- Nibley Fellow, Brigham Young University, 2001-2003
Grants
- Teaching and Learning Committee Grant for new course prep, Kalamazoo College, 2020
- Internationalization Innovation Fund Grant, Kalamazoo College, 2019
- Mid-Career Research Grant, Kalamazoo College, 2019-2020
- Grant for Workshop for Contributors to The Bible in Mormonism, Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, June 30, 2017
- Sophomore Seminar Shared Passages Mellon Foundation Grant, 2014
- Mellon Seminar Development Funding, Kalamazoo College, 2011
- Teagle Grant for Scholarship of Learning and Teaching, Kalamazoo College, 2011
- Religious Education Grant, Brigham Young University, 2009-10
- Dean’s Dissertation Grant, Harvard Divinity School, 2008-2009
CONFERENCES, LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS
By Invitation
Respondent: Queering Mormonism [panel], Mormon History Association, June 2025
Keynote: “The Peculiar Politics of Polygamy,” Journal of Mormon Polygamy Conference, March 2025
“Tabernacles of Clay,” University of Utah, March 2025
“The Founding of Exponent II and Affirmation in Comparative Context,” Claudia Bushman Festschrift, March 2025
“Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos,” University College Cork, October 23, 2024. “Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos,” Affirmation, October 12, 2024.
“Gender and Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos,” Utah Valley University, October 10, 2024.
“Marcion and the Resurrection Turn,” Flourishing in Early Christianity Seminar, Australian Catholic University, Rome, Italy, September 1-4, 2023.
Keynote: “Biopossibility and Mythological Materialism in the Mormon Cosmos,” Religion and the Body Conference, Boston University, October 2, 2022
“Tabernacles of Clay,” Colorado Faith Forum, September 16, 2022
“Historiography of Christianity Seminar,” Pembroke College, Oxford University, August 12-24, 2022
“A Conversation with Taylor Petrey,” Queens College, University of Cambridge, August 21, 2022
“Bodies and Embodiment,” Next Quest for the Historical Jesus Conference, Bedford, UK, July 2022
“Tabernacles of Clay,” UC Santa Barbara, March 4-6, 2022 “Tabernacles of Clay,” Writ & Vision, Provo, Utah, July, 2021
Book Panel: Blaire Ostler, Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction, Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, July, 2021
“Marcion and the Resurrection,” Invited paper for Society for New Testament Studies, Lueven,
July 2021
“Author Meets Critics: Tabernacles of Clay,” Mormon History Association, May 2021
“Respondent: Gender Anxiety and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [panel],” Mormon History Association, May 2021
“Tabernacles of Clay,” Second Sunday [Cambridge, MA], October 11, 2020
“Essential Gender in LDS Thought,” Claremont Graduate University/Miller-Eccles, October 9, 2020
“Religion, Gender, and Sexuality,” Princeton Religion Lounge Seminar, October, 5, 2020
“Gender in the Afterlife,” interview and lecture for Life After Death course at Birmingham University, September 2020
“Tabernacles of Clay Discussion,” Graduate Student Event University of Utah, Sept 8, 2020 “Tabernacles of Clay,” K Talk Alumni Event, August 4, 2020.
Dialogue Book Club Live Interview: Tabernacles of Clay, August 2, 2020.
“Book Panel: Tabernacles of Clay.” Patrick Mason, Alexandria Griffin, Blaire Ostler, Jaclyn Foster.
Sunstone Symposium, August 1, 2020.
“Tabernacles of Clay” Claremont Graduate University, April 9, 2020. [Cancelled due to COVID-19]
Review panel for Candida Moss, Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019) at Society of Biblical Literature, San Diego, CA 2019
“Limits and Possibilities: Mormonism, Gender, and Sexuality” Sterling McMurrin Lecture, University of Utah; Keynote address for “Building Bridges for Sexual and Gender Minorities in the LDS Church, “ September 2019
“The Future of Faith,” Keynote Address at Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1, 2019
“Proclaiming the Family: Gender and Sexuality in Mormonism” K Talk, Kalamazoo College Alumni, Bloomfield Hills, MI, April 12, 2018
Response to Joseph Spencer, Society of Biblical Literature, Boston, MA 2017
Plenary Panel Session, “Responses to Taylor Petrey’s Critique of Paul’s Use in Mormon Theology” Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Claremont, CA, Mar 3, 2017
“Being Mormon at Harvard,” Invited Panelist for Faith and Knowledge Conference with David Holland and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard Divinity School, Feb 24, 2017
“The Mormon Homosexual: Caring and Curing from the 1970s to the Present,” Public Lecture for the Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School, Sept 23, 2016
“Is Polygamy Patriarchal, Heterosexual, or Queer?” Invited conference, “Polygamy Debates,”
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, July 28-29, 2016
“Gender and the Text: Mormon and Catholic Feminisms in Dialogue,” Invited conference presentation, Mormons and Catholics in Dialogue, University of Notre Dame, Dec 5, 2013
“Gender and Heaven in Mormon Theology,” at Gregory Prince residence, Potomac, MD,
Nov 24, 2013
“The Body and Birth of Christ in Early Christianity,” Invited Public Lecture at Michigan State University, April 12, 2012
“Purity and Parallels: Constructing the Apostasy Narrative of Early Christianity,” Invited Presentation at “Exploring Mormon Conceptions of the Apostasy” Conference, Brigham Young University, March 1-2, 2012
“God’s Semen: Tertullian on Sexual Difference in the Incarnation,” Invited Public Lecture, Duke University, February 28, 2012
Keynote Address: Compassionate Cause Symposium: Creating a Safe Space for the Homosexual in the Church, Washington University, August 11, 2012
“The Resurrection and Sexuality in the Second Century,” Keynote address at Harvard-
Yale-Brown Day Early Christianity Conference, Yale University, April 30, 2010
“Friendship and Early Christianity,” Keynote address at Dyson Society of Fellows Annual Meeting, Pace University, April 20, 2010
Conference Presentation
“A Reluctant Historian,” Mormon History Association, June 2025
“Violence in Mormon Ways: A Panel Discussion of ‘Under the Banner of Heaven,” American Academy of Religion, November 2022
“Violent Ends and Violent Delights: Afterlife in Perpetua and Felicitas,” Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, November 2021
“‘Masculine, Manly Men’: The Psychologization of LDS Approaches to Homosexuality,” Mormon History Association, June 2019
“The Unisex Threat: The Convergence of Mormon Politics and Psychotherapy in the 1970s,”
American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, 2018
“Heavenly Mother and Heterosexuality,” Plenary Panel Session: Gender and the Nature of God, Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Claremont, CA, Mar 3, 2017.
“Kinship, Sexual Difference, and the Angelic Resurrection,” at Society of Biblical Literature,
Atlanta, GA, Nov 2015
“After Historical Criticism: Mormon Biblical Studies in Post-Modernity,” at Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2015
“Infirm Foundations: Interpreting Mormon Scripture,” at Society of Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Brigham Young University, Oct 10, 2015.
“An Essential Characteristic: The Mutability of Gender in Mormon Thought,” at Faith and Knowledge, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Feb 2015
“Saving Kinship: Clement of Alexandria and Reproduction,” at Society of Biblical Literature National Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov 22, 2014
“Licentious Sects in Clement of Alexandria,” at North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL,
May 23, 2014
“A Difference There: Sexual Difference in Mormon Theology,” at Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Utah Valley University, Nov 2, 2013
“Semen Stains: Tertullian and the Incarnation” at North American Patristics Society,
Chicago, IL, May 24, 2012
“The Flesh in the Epistle to Rheginos” Presented at Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Nov 2009
“Virtue and Sexual Difference in Athenagoras, On the Resurrection,” North American Patristics Society (NAPS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2009
“The Usefulness of the Sexual Organs in Pseudo-Justin Martyr, On the Resurrection,”
American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2008 and SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2008
“The Case of Christians in Synagogues: Methods and Evidences,” SBL Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2006
Guest Lectures
“Tertullian: On the Resurrection,” Guest lecture in New Testament Doctoral Seminar:
Resurrection and Afterlife at Notre Dame, Prof. Candida Moss, Nov 11, 2013
“The Body and Spirit in Paul the Apostle,” Guest Lecture in The Life and Letters of Paul: Apostolic Bodies (REL 108), Dr. Cavan Concannon, Duke University, February 28, 2012
“Tertullian and the Incarnation,” Greater Michigan Ancient Christianity Society, Kalamazoo, MI,
September, 2011
“Tertullian’s Treatise on the Resurrection,” Guest Lecture in THEO 60160 “Death and
Afterlife in the New Testament,” Dr. Candida Moss, Notre Dame University, November 27, 2010
“Valentinianism, Ascent, and Afterlife,” Guest lecture in Religion 1360 “Gnosticism:
Studies in Early Christian Diversity” Dr. Nicola Denzey, Brown University, March 23, 2010
Conference Organization
“The Rhetoric of Kinship” and “Early Christian Anthropology,” Co-organizer and co-chair with Ellen Muehlberger of four sections at North American Patristics Society (NAPS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2013
“Heavenly Bodies,” Organizer and co-chair with Candida Moss of two sections at North American Patristics Society (NAPS) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2010
Founder, Greater Michigan Ancient Christianity Society (GMACS), Kalamazoo College March, May, July, September 2011, January, March 2012, March 2013
Conference Organizer, “Faith and Knowledge” Duke University, February 2011, Harvard Divinity School, February 2009 and Yale Divinity School, February, 2007
Conference Coordinator, “Race and Ethnicity in New Testament and Early Christian Studies,” Harvard Divinity School, March, 2007
Conference Coordinator, “From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonikē: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology,” Harvard Divinity School, May, 2007
Co-Organizer, Colloquium for the Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University, 2007-2009
PUBLIC FACING SCHOLARSHIP
Selected Editorials and Essays
“The LDS Church’s Family Proclamation is Commentary—Not Revelation,” Salt Lake Tribune, October 3, 2025.
“LDS Support for Christian Nationalism Should Raise the Alarm,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 15, 2023.
Organized Roundtable: “Mormons, Race, and the History of Sexuality,” in American Religion (online). With Peter Coviello, K. Mohrman, Heather White, Edgar Garcia.
Taylor G. Petrey, “Are there any Mormons in the History of Sexuality? A Response” (2022).
“Violence in Mormon Ways: A Review of ‘Under the Banner of Heaven,’” Religion & Politics (May 11, 2022).
“What is a Latter-day Saint Temple?” The Conversation (April 29, 2022) (Reprinted in Jerusalem Post, Real Clear Religion, and many more).
“Section Introduction,” in Kerri Spencer and Jenn Lee, eds., I Spoke to you with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormon Women and Gender Diverse People (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022).
“Taylor G. Petrey: If biology were immutable, it wouldn’t need to be enforced” Salt Lake Tribune Online February 21, Print February 23, 2020.
“Are Mormons Feminists Now?” Guest post at UNCPressblog.com, February 19, 2020.
“Gays cheered at Brigham Young University – millennial Mormons are increasingly tolerant of same-sex attraction,” The Conversation, May 6, 2019.
“The Mormon Church still doesn’t accept same-sex couples – even if it no longer bars their children.” The Conversation, April 12, 2019.
“The Failures of Mormon Conservatism,” Deseret News, May 9, 2017.
“Siding with Heretics: Evaluating Hugh Nibley Today,” Studies in the Bible and Antiquity 7 (2015): 66–70
“Mormon Leader Signals New Openness on Transgender Issues. This Could Be Huge,” Slate, Feb 13, 2015.
“My Husband’s Not Gay: Homosexuality and the LDS Church,” Religion and Politics, Feb 4, 2015.
“Friendship and Education in Early Christianity,” Transactions, 17 (2010): 63-69
“Practicing Divinity,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 42.2 (Summer, 2009): 179-82.
“An Uncomfortable Mormon,” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 37.2-3 (Spring-Summer, 2009): 14-16.
“The Mormon Pavilion and Welcome to the World: 1964–65,” in City Saints: Mormons in the New York Metropolis, ed. Tiffany Scott (New York: New York Stake LDS History Committee, 2004).
- ”Is Mormonism Ridiculous?” May 23, 2012 (Mormon Newsroom “Getting It Right”; “Best of 10+ Years of Mormons Blogging,” Dialogue [Summer 2014])
- “The Truth About Mormon Stereotypes,” July 5, 2012 (Mormon Newsroom “Getting It Right”)
- “Mormonism and the Christianity Police,” Sept 5, 2012
- “The Heavenly Mommy Wars,” Nov 5, 2012
- “Issues in Mormon Feminism,” Jan 7, 2012
- “How Mormons Read the Bible,” Mar 11, 2013
- “LDS v. USA: Mormonism in the Age of Same-Sex Marriage,” June 25, 2013 (reprinted at “No More Strangers: LGBT Mormon Forum,” June 29, 2013)
- “The Greater Apostasy? Responsibility and Falling Away in LDS Narratives,” July 15, 2013 (“Best of 10+ Years of Mormons Blogging” Dialogue [Summer 2014]).
- “Belief and Belonging in Mormonism,” Sept 16, 2013
- “Being a Mormon Intellectual,” Nov 17, 2013
- “Ordaining Women Is Not Going Away for LDS,” Mar 22, 2014
- “Junia the Apostle and Mormonism’s Priesthood,” Oct 5, 2014
- “On Doctrinal Authority,” Dec 15, 2014
- “Guest Post from Dialogue” Dec 9, 2011
- “The Significance of the ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’” Sept 19, 2012
- “A Warning About Alonzo Gaskill’s New Book,” April 10, 2014
- “Heavenly Mother in Harvard Theological Review” Aug 29, 2016 and “The Stakes of Heavenly Mother,” Sept 9, 2016. Roundtable discussion from Margaret Toscano, Caroline Kline, and Kristine Haglund.
- Roundtable on the Power of Godliness Part II. Review of Jonathan Stapley, Power of Godliness, April 12, 2018.
DOCUMENTARY, RADIO, NEWSPAPER PROFILES, PODCASTS
Documentary
Featured interview, The Mascot. Documentary. Directed by Delaney Plant. Leicester Documentary Non Profit, 2025.
Featured interview, Church & State. Documentary. Directed by Holly Tuckett and Kendall Wilcox. Distributed by Blue Fox Entertainment, 2018.
Radio
“50 Years of Sunstone and the Mormon Intellectual Tradition,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest, July 29, 2025.
“A Spiritual Crackdown at Brigham Young University,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest, January 14, 2025
“Defining Christian Nationalism,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest, March 28, 2023.
“When a BYU Student tried to cure homosexuality,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest April 7, 2022.
“LDS, LGBTQ, and BYU,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest August 27, 2021.
“The Sexual History of the LDS Church,” Doug Fabrizio, RadioWest, April 22, 2021.
“Gender, Sexuality, and the LDS Church,” Doug Fabrizio, Radio West, July 10, 2020.
Interview appearance in Doug Fabrizio, “Who is Worthy? Mormon Youth Interviews, Sex, and Shame,” Radio West, November 14, 2018.
Research credit in “But That’s What Happened,” This American Life, November 9, 2018.
Podcast Produced
Dialogue Out Loud, 2 seasons, 2022, 2023
Dialogue Topics, 1 Season, 2021
Dialogue Heritage, 1 Season, 2020
Selected Podcast Interviews
“How new church policies make trans members invisible and could push them to leave,” Episode 352, Mormon Land (Salt Lake Tribune), August 21, 2024.
“Latter-day Saints and Biblical Studies,” Scholars and Saints, August 2023
Episodes 138, 139, 140, 141, “Tabernacles of Clay,” Latter Day Struggles, July, 2023 “Taylor Petrey,” Called to Queer, April 2022.
“Options, with Taylor Petrey,” Fireside with Blair Hodges, February 2022.
“Tabernacles of Clay,” So You Want to Talk about Mormonism (Podcast), November 2021.
“Sex, Sexuality, and Gender,” A Thoughtful Faith, September 2020. “Interview with Taylor Petrey,” Beyond the Block, June 2020. “Taylor Petrey,” Listen, Learn, and Love, June 2020.
“Taylor Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay,” New Books Network, June, 2020.
“‘Mormon Land’: Scholar explores how the modern church’s views on sexuality and gender evolved and what that might mean in the future,” David Noyce and Peggy Fletcher Stack, Mormon Land. July 1, 2020.
“Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism,” Lindsay Hansen Park and Ben Park, Sunstone Podcast, May 21, 2020.
Profiles
Author Interview: Tamarra Kemsley, “Why Latter-day Saints Should be Skeptical about Using Adam and Eve to define marriage and gender,” Salt Lake Tribune, October 1, 2024.
Author Interview: “Tabernacles of Clay” NOTCHES, June 15, 2021.
“Mormonism’s Surprising Gender Fluidity,” Jana Riess, Religion News Service and Salt Lake Tribune, May 29, 2020.
Featured and profiled in Paighten Harkins, “Prof points to gender, sexual fluidity in religious writings as blueprint to build bridges between LDS-LGBTQ communities,” Salt Lake Tribune, September 28, 2019.
Walter Smelt, “At the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Mormonism,” Harvard Divinity School Profile, July 31, 2017.
Quoted In
Quoted in Max Bryan, et al, “Alleged Grand Blanc Twp. Attacker Said Mormons Were the Antichrist,” Detroit News, September 29, 2025.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “‘Who knows how many people’s lives he saved?’ Latter-day Saints pay tribute to Russel M. Nelson,” Salt Lake Tribune, September 29, 2025.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Dark Days: New Rules Have BYU Professors Running Scared,” Salt Lake Tribune, January 6, 2025.
Quoted in Mariya Manzos, “How Harvard Divinity School became a hub for Latter-day Saints,” Deseret News October 5, 2024.
Quoted in Matt Lavietes, “Mormon Church issues new restrictions on transgender members,” NBC News, August 21, 2024.
Quoted in Tamarra Kemsley, “New LDS Church Policies relegate trans members to ‘second-class’ status, scholars warn,” Salt Lake Tribune, August 19, 2024.
Quoted in Molly Minta, “In the Mississippi Bible Belt, a family wrestles with raising trans kids in the Mormon Church,” Mississippi Today October 25, 2023.
Quoted in Mark Eddington, “More Bad News for Tim Ballard,” Salt Lake Tribune, Sept 29, 2023.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Is this the Latter-day Saint idea of heaven—sex and pregnancy forever?” Salt Lake Tribune, September 23, 2023.
Quoted in Mark Eddington, “LDS prophet Brigham Young’s drag-performing son skirted traditional norms and now stirs speculation,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 30, 2023.
Quoted in Colleen Flaherty, “New church office cutting faculty at Brigham Young,” Inside Higher Ed, December 1, 2022.
Quoted in Tamarra Kemsley and Peggy Fletcher Stack, “In a stunning move, LDS Church comes out for bill that recognizes same-sex marriage,” Salt Lake Tribune, November 15, 2022.
Quoted in Bryan Pietsch, “Mormon Church Voices Support for Same-Sex Marriage Bill,” Washington Post, November 16, 2022.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Theological Breakthrough? LDS scholar sees a path for same-sex temple dealings that honors church teachings,” Salt Lake Tribune, Oct 4, 2022.
Quoted, Peggy Fletcher Stack, “David Archuletta’s Anguished Journey: Be true to his faith or true to his feelings?” Salt Lake Tribune, January 23, 2022.
Quoted in Tamarra Kemsely, “Queer Latter-day Saints Wonder, Can I Date and Still Be In Good Standing? And if so, how?” Salt Lake Tribune, January 9, 2022.
Quoted in Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Mormon Sex Therapist Faces Discipline and Possible Expulsion from the LDS Church,” Washington Post April 16, 2021.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “How will we worship—whether Catholic, LDS, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, or Protestant—after COVID?” Salt Lake Tribune, March 20, 2021.
Quoted in Peggy Fletcher Stack, “How intersex Latter-day Saints struggle to stay in a two gender faith” Salt Lake Tribune, October 24, 2020.
Quoted in Tamarra Kemsley, “The Eagle Scout and the President: What a Utah Politician Tells Us about LDS Ambivalence to Trump,” Religion & Politics, October 20, 2020.
Quoted in Candida Moss, “The Twisted Fate for Men who Claimed Jesus was Gay,” The Daily Beast, March 23, 2020.
Quoted in Marisa Iati, “BYU lifted a ban on ‘homosexual behavior.’ The Mormon Church says same-sex couples still can’t date,” Washington Post, March 5, 2020.
Quoted in Sarah Pulliam-Bailey, “Mormon leaders explicitly ban guns from houses of worship,” Washington Post, August 26, 2019.
Quoted in Marisa Iati, “No more green tea, vaping or drinks ending in ‘-ccino,’ Mormon Church tells members” Washington Post, August 16, 2019.
Quoted in Isaac Stanley-Becker, “’I am proud to be a gay son of God’: Mormon valedictorian comes out in graduation speech,” Washington Post, April 29, 2019.
Quoted in Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “Mormon Church to Allow Baptisms, Blessings for Children of LGBT Parents, Reversing 2015 Policy,” Washington Post, April 4, 2019.
Quoted in Lindsey Whitehurst (AP), “GOP Lawmakers Push to Ban LGBT Conversion Therapy in Utah,” USA Today, February 21, 2019 (and elsewhere).
Quoted in Isaac Stanley-Becker, “‘He Made Me Transgender on Purpose’: Breast Removal Surgery Could Boot Mormon Student From Brigham Young,” Washington Post, August 24, 2018.
COURSES TAUGHT
Kalamazoo College
- Introduction to New Testament
- Introduction to Hebrew Bible
- From Jesus to Christianity
- What is Religion?
- Religion from Alexander to Constantine
- Judaism in Antiquity
- Race and the Bible
- Sex and the Bible
- Contemporary Biblical Studies
- Christianity and the Family
- Junior Seminar in Religion
- Senior Seminar in Religion
- Senior Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Harvard University
- Gender and Sexuality in Mormonism
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Faculty Executive Committee, Chair, Kalamazoo College, 2020-22
Academic Planning Task Force (COVID response), Kalamazoo College, March-August 2020 Faculty Executive Committee, Elected Humanities Kalamazoo College, Rep, 2019-2022 Chair, Religion Department, Kalamazoo College, 2018-
Institutional Review Board, Humanities Rep, Kalamazoo College, 2018-2019
Faculty Executive Committee, Interim Humanities Rep, Kalamazoo College, 2017-18 Institutional Review Board, Humanities Rep, Kalamazoo College, 2014-2016 Director, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, Kalamazoo College, 2012-2016 Admissions Committee, Kalamazoo College, 2013-14
Information Services Advisory Committee, Kalamazoo College, 2011-2013
REQUESTS FOR PEER REVIEW
Book Manuscripts: Oxford University Press, Yale University Press, Gorgias Press, Fordham University Press, University of Utah Press, Indiana University Press
Articles: Journal of the American Academy of Religion; Sophia: Journal of Women’s History; Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought; Journal of Book of Mormon Studies; Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion; BYU Studies; Religions
Grant Proposals: National Humanities Center, Swiss National Science Foundation
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE
American Academy of Religion
Reading Religion, Editorial Board, 2022-Present Advisory Board: Mormon Studies Unit, 2016-2018
Program Unit Co-chair: Mormon Studies Unit, 2018-Present Society of Biblical Literature
Program Unit Co-chair: Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs, 2017-2021
Advisory Board: Inventing Christianity: Apostolic Fathers, Apologists, and Martyrs 2014-Present
Advisory Board: Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible, 2016-2022 Mormon History Association
Awards Committee, Chair, 2022-Present Awards Committee, 2021-22
North American Patristics Society Awards Committee, 2019-2024