April 16, 2004

A History Job Search at the University of Utah

To the Editor:

In The Chronicle's February 27 Peer Review item "Church and State," this year's search for a scholar of Utah or Mormon history by the department of history at the University of Utah is characterized as a "fraud" and "an insult" to a candidate in that search. The article further quotes one of our faculty members, Colleen McDannell, as saying that "the absence on this campus of scholarly attention to Mormon history, theology, and practice is