Richard Lyman Bushman Named Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies

I might be going a little far out of my mandate here, but Richard Lyman Bushman, prominent author of Mormonism and professor emeritus from the Gouverneur Morris Chair of American History at Columbia University, is now the Howard W. Hunter Visiting Professor in Mormon Studies at Claremont School of Religion. Author of a dozen books about America and religion, Bushman will establish a program in Mormon studies.

I'll let Dean Karen Torjesen speak for me.

"We consider him to be the single most widely known and highly regarded historian of Mormonism," Karen Torjesen, dean of the Claremont School of Religion, said in a statement. "We are committed to studying the full breadth of religious experience. With his broad background in American cultural and religious history, Professor Bushman will make a vitally important contribution to our mission."

I couldn't be more excited. Finally, political and social diversity!