Kathleen Flake

Kathleen Flake is an American historian, writer, and attorney and is currently the Richard Lyman Bushman chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia.[1]

Kathleen Flake
Kathleen Flake in 2016
Academic background
Alma materBrigham Young University, Catholic University of America, University of Utah, University of Chicago
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Virginia
Main interestsHistory of Mormonism
Notable worksThe Politics of Religious Identity

Education

Flake obtained a BA from Brigham Young University, an MA from Catholic University of America, a law degree from the University of Utah, and a PhD from the University of Chicago.[2]

Career

Flake was previously a professor of American religious history at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University. While a graduate student, Flake took a summer seminar course for graduate students on Mormon history with Richard L. Bushman.[3]

Flake's research in the area of American religious history focuses on the adaptive strategies of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American religious communities and the effect of pluralism on religious identity. She also studies constructive function of text and ritual in maintaining and adapting the identity and gendered power structures of religious communities. Flake studies the influence of American law on American religion and the theological tensions inherent in the First Amendment religious clauses.

Personal life

Flake is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission in Japan.[4] She is a distant relative to former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona; they share a great-grandfather, William J. Flake.[5]

She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Works
Books
  • Flake, Kathleen (2004). The Politics of Religious Identity: the Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807863541. OCLC 57707347.
Book chapters
Journal articles

Further reading

References
  1. "U.Va. Names Kathleen Flake as First Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies". 9 September 2013.
  2. Walker, Joseph (2013-09-18). "LDS woman makes a living thinking about Mormonism". Deseret News. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  3. R. Scott Lloyd "New generation of historians presenting a better view of Mormonism to the world, speaker says", Deseret News, June 6, 2015
  4. Walker, Joseph (18 September 2013). "LDS woman makes a living thinking about Mormonism". Deseret News.
  5. Caroline Newman, Q&A: RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROFESSOR TO BRING FORMER U.S. SEN. JEFF FLAKE TO GROUNDS, UVA Today (September 10, 2018).
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