Honors Disciple Scholar Lecture

"Grand Facts: Being Called to the Life of the Mind" with Spencer Fluhman, Chair of the History Department. Each year, the Honors Program hosts the Honors Disciple Scholar Lecture, a long-standing Honors tradition focused on the intersection of scholarship and faith at BYU. This semester, we are excited to welcome Dr. J. Spencer Fluhman, Chair of the History Department. His lecture is titled, "Grand Facts: Being Called to the Life of the Mind." Jimmy John's will be served to follow the lecture, served downstairs in the Honors Commons, MSRB. J. Spencer Fluhman is associate professor and chair of the history department at Brigham Young University. He graduated summa cum laude from BYU in Near Eastern Studies and received master's and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At BYU, he has taught courses on US History, Utah History, Latter-day Saint history, and the history of American religion. He has won multiple teaching awards, including professor of the year in the history department and American Studies program. He is the author or editor of several books and articles on Latter-day Saint history and his writing and research have been awarded the Mormon History Association's best article and best first book awards. He has held office in the American Academy of Religion, American Society of Church History, and the Mormon History Association. He was a fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture from 2007-09, editor-in-chief of the Mormon Studies Review from 2013-2018, visiting professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in 2015, visiting distinguished professor of Mormon Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2020, executive director of BYU’s Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship from 2016-23, and senior research associate at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, in 2023-24.