TODD M.
COMPTON
toddmagos[at]yahoo[dot]com
BOOKS
Victim of The Muses:
Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and
History. Washington
DC: Center
for Hellenic Studies / Harvard
University Press, [May]
2006.
Some
reviews:
Pascale Hummel, review
in Phoenix, Journal of the Classical Association
of Canada 62.1 (Spring
2008): 196-97. “The author of this book approaches his subject with the freedom
of a spirit that is both a gourmand and an adventurer. The poet-scapegoat is at
the center of his work: the theme is not
new, but it has rarely been treated by itself. Four parts [in the book] ... delineate
it with neutrality and brio.... We have here a book that is very readable,
neutral, rigorous and impartial, well documented, rich and suggestive, which
speaks to the public of non-specialists, at the same time that it methodically
integrates the precise elements characteristic of the most rigorous philology.”
[translated from French]
David F. Elmer, review
in The Journal of Indo-European Studies
36.1-2 (Spring/ Summer 2008): 190-95. Elmer has some disagreements with my
interpretations. Nevertheless, “Compton’s thoroughly researched work has much
to contribute to the study of individual poets’ lives and to the study of the
lives as a generic form or cultural phenomenon. The book’s chief virtue is the
cumulative force with which it demonstrates the extent to which the vitae are shaped by traditional
influences, independently both of history and of the literary corpus of the
poet in question....Victim of the Muses
is thought-provoking reading for those interested in the tensions surround the
practice of poetry in the Greek and Roman worlds, or in the complex meanings
that can be encoded in biographical writing. Although one can imagine
alternatives to the interpretations Compton proposes, his compendious assembly
of biographical anecdotes provides an illuminating glimpse into a world in which
myth and history interact in endlessly interesting ways.”
A Widow’s Tale: The
1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Whitney. Introduction, Notes and Register by Todd
Compton. Transcription by Charles Hatch and Todd Compton. Logan,
Utah: Utah State University Press, [September] 2003.
[Note: this attribution is not the same as the attribution on the title page,
but is correct.]
· Winner,
2004, Best Documentary Book, Mormon History Association.
· Finalist,
2004 Willa Literary Awards for Nonfiction, awarded by Women Writing the
West.
· Finalist,
the Penny Kanner Prize, from the Western Association of Women Historians
Some
reviews:
Richard Holzapfel and David M. Whitchurch, review in Mormon Historical Studies 5.2 (Fall
2004), 189-202. “For most readers, Compton’s tireless, meticulous, and readable
scholarly apparatus will not only provide a historical context but also will
allow the reader to access a wealth of information based on recent scholarly
activity by Compton himself and by other important working historians—providing
both breadth and depth to the many contributions the diaries provide
themselves.” “The notes section, covering 111 pages of small print ... is a
‘book within a book’ itself. Based on years of reading and research among
primary documents in major institutions, Compton
illuminates a variety of subjects, events and personalities.” “The diaries
provide an insight into the struggles of widowhood at the end of the nineteenth
century (see pp. 8-19 and 20-22 for Compton’s
helpful and poignant analysis). Helen Mar’s diaries provide a better source for
this subject than any other Mormon, Utah, or even Western Americana document
known today.”
Janet Burton Seegmiller, review in Utah Historical Quarterly 72.4 (Fall 2004): 375-76. Available
online at http://history.utah.gov/history_programs/utah_historic_quarterly/.
“It was a prodigious undertaking by both the editors and the press to bring
this diary to publication in such a remarkable manner.” “Compton’s introduction is comprehensive ...
the endnotes are exhaustive ... The Register of Names ... is more helpful than
the normal index to a book.” “I recommend these diaries to anyone writing
biography, especially Mormon or women’s biography of the late nineteenth
century, and also to those trying to understand the changes in society, the LDS
church, and government at the time ... It is a remarkable record of the life of
a very observant woman.”
Henry A. Wolfinger, review in Journal of Mormon History 32.1 (Spring
2005): 205-209.
In Sacred Loneliness: the Plural Wives of
Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City,
Utah: Signature Books, [December]
1997.
· Winner,
Best Book of the Year, Mormon History Association.
· Winner,
Best Book of the Year, John Whitmer Historical Association.
· Finalist,
Evans Award for Biography.
Some
reviews:
Kay Meredith Dusheck, review in Library Journal, May 1, 1998. In
Sacred Loneliness is “a meticulously researched and masterly study of
Mormon Joseph Smith’s 33 wives.”
B. Carmon Hardy, review in Journal
of Mormon History 25.2 (Fall 1999), 222-27. “In Sacred Loneliness is a major work that will long be essential to
anyone studying Mormon history. Apart from the illumination the stories provide
concerning the Prophet himself, Todd Compton’s portraits of Smith’s plural
companions elevate the importance of women in Mormonism generally.”
Lawrence
Foster, “Plural Marriage, Singular Lives,” Dialogue
33.1 (Spring 2000): 184-86. In Sacred
Loneliness is “a massive and path-breaking, 788-page study” ... The core of
the book consists of “thirty well-written and thoroughly documented chapters”
... that retell the lives of the 33 women in In Sacred Loneliness. Compton “masterfully reconstructs the often
poignant stories of these women without reducing them to stereotypical heroines
or victims, as so many earlier accounts have done.” ... “Equally if not more
important, Compton has provided in this study the massive primary documentation
from widely scattered sources that will allow both scholars and the general
public alike to form their own opinions about just what was going on in Joseph
Smith’s polygamous relationships.”
BOOKS AND ARTICLES: FORTHCOMING
I am presently working on a biography of Indian missionary Jacob Hamblin.
I am also working as co-author on a book dealing with the Mormon War of 1838 in Missouri.
ARTICLES: MORMON HISTORY, SCRIPTURE, AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
“The Big Washout: The 1862 Flood in Santa Clara.” Utah Historical Quarterly 77.2 (Spring
2009): 108-25.
“Becoming a “Messenger of Peace”: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
(Spring 2009): 1-29.
“Civilizing the Ragged Edge: The Wives of Jacob Hamblin.” Journal of Mormon Studies 33.2 (summer
2007): 155-98.
“Forward” to Devery S. Anderson & Gary James Bergera,
eds., Joseph Smith's Quorum of the
Anointed, 1842-1845 (Salt Lake
City: Signature Books, 2005).
“The New Mormon Women’s History.” In Newell G. Bringhurst and
Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds., Excavating
Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century (Salt Lake City: Greg
Kofford Books, [June] 2004), 273-302.
“‘Kingdom of Priests’: Priesthood, Temple and Women in the Old Testament and in
the Restoration.” Dialogue: A Journal of
Mormon Thought 36.3 (Fall 2003): 41-60.
“John Willard Young, Brigham
Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church.”
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
35.4 (winter 2002): 111-34.
·
Winner of 2001-2002 Dialogue
Writing Award in History and Biography. (See Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 36.1 [Spring 2003]: 8.)
“Was Jesus a Feminist?” Dialogue:
A Journal of Mormon Thought 32.4 (Winter 1999 [December 2000]): 1-18.
“‘Remember Me in My Affliction’”: Louisa Beaman Young and
Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849.” Journal of
Mormon History 25.2 (fall 1999): 46-69.
“In Sacred Loneliness,
an Introduction, and Some RLDS Portraits.” The
John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 19 ([November] 1999): 63-78.
“Thoughts on the Possibility of an Open Temple.”
Sunstone 22.1 #113 (March-April
1999): 42-49.
“Heaven and Hell: The Parable of the Loving Father and the
Judgmental Son.” Dialogue: A Journal of
Mormon Thought 29.4 (winter 1996): 31-46.
“A Trajectory of Polygamy: An Overview of Joseph Smith’s
Plural Wives.” Dialogue: A Journal of
Mormon Thought 29.2 (summer 1996): 1-40.
·
Winner, Thomas Lyon award, Mormon History Association.
·
Winner of 1996 Dialogue Writing Award in History and Biography. (See Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
30.1 [Spring 1997]: 1.)
“Fawn Brodie on Joseph Smith’s Plural Wives and Polygamy: A
Critical View.” In Newell Bringhurst, ed., Reconsidering
No Man Knows My History: Fawn Brodie
and Joseph Smith in Retrospect (Logan, Utah: University of Utah State
Press, 1996), 154-94.
“Fanny Alger Smith Custer: Mormonism’s First Plural Wife?” Journal of Mormon History 22.1 (spring
1996): 174-207.
Response by Janet Ellingson, “Alger
Marriage Questioned,” Letter to Editor, Journal
of Mormon History 23.1 (spring 1997), vi-vii.
“The Spirituality of the Outcast in the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 2.1
(spring 1993): 139-60.
“Non-Hierarchical Revelation.” In Women and Authority, ed. Maxine Hanks, 185-200. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992.
Revised version of “Counter-Hierarchical Revelation” (Sunstone, June 1991).
“Apostasy.” The
Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York: MacMillan, 1992).
“The Organization of the Church in New Testament Times.” The Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York:
MacMillan, 1992).
“Symbolism.” The
Encyclopedia of Mormonism (New York: MacMillan, 1992). This is a fine
article, mostly written by Robert Rees, though his name was withdrawn from the
article. I added the first paragraph and edited his text slightly.
“Counter-Hierarchical Revelation.” Sunstone 15.2 #82 (June 1991): 34-41.
“The Handclasp and Embrace as Tokens of Recognition.” In By Study and By Faith: Essays in Honor of
Hugh Nibley on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, 27 March, 1990, ed.
by Stephen Ricks, vol. 1 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/ F.A.R.M.S., 1990),
611-42.
“Foreword” to Hugh Nibley, Mormonism and Early Christianity, edited by Todd Compton and
Stephen Ricks (Salt Lake City: Deseret / F.A.R.M.S., 1987), vii-xiii.
“Aztec Herbalism.” The
Herbalist 4.7 (Sept. 1979): 4-5.
“Historical Herb Gardening.” The Herbalist 4.6 (Aug. 1979): 12-14.
REVIEWS AND MISCELLANEOUS: MORMON HISTORY, SCRIPTURE, AND
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
Review of Laura L. Bush, Faithful
Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s
Autobiographical Acts. The Western
Historical Quarterly 37 no. 1 (spring 2006): 95-96.
Review of Shirley N. Maynes, Five Hundred Wagons Stood Still: Mormon Battalion Wives. Journal Of Mormon History 32.2 (summer
2005): 261-62.
Review of Will Bagley, Blood
of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. In Journal of Mormon History 29.2 (fall
2003): 255-60.
“A Positive View: Polygamy in Nineteenth Century Manti.” A
review of Kathryn M. Daynes, More Wives
Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840‑1910. In Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 35.4 (winter 2002): 161-64.
“Textual Tradition, the Evolution of Mormon Doctrine, and the
Doctrine and Covenants.” A review of H. Michael Marquardt, The Joseph Smith Revelations: Text and Commentary, in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
33.3 (fall 2000):180.
Review of Jeni Broberg Holzapfel and Richard Holzapfel, A Woman’s View: Helen Mar Whitney’s Reminiscences
of Church History, in Journal of
Mormon History 25.2 (fall 1999): 231-33.
“Ambiguous Polygamy.” A letter to the editor. Journal of Mormon History 25.2 (fall
1999): ix-xi.
“Response to Janet Ellingson.” Journal of Mormon History 23.2 (fall 1997): xvii-xix.
Participation in “Scripture, History, and Faith: A Round
Table Discussion.” Dialogue: A Journal of
Mormon Thought 29.4 (winter 1996): 89-118.
“Christian Scholarship and the Book of Mormon.” A review of
Brent Lee Metcalfe, New Approaches to the
Book of Mormon and Daniel C. Peterson, Review in Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6:1, in Sunstone 19:3 (Sept. 1996): 74-81.
“Response to Matthew Stannard on ‘Counter-Hierarchical
Revelation’.” Sunstone 15.5 #85
(November 1991): 52-53.
“A Kindler, Gentler Research.” A letter to the editor. Sunstone 15.1 #81 (1991): 5-7.
Review of John W. Welch, The
Sermon at the Temple
and the Sermon on the Mount. In Review
of Books on the Book of Mormon 3 (1991): 319-23.
Review of Hugh Nibley, Lehi
in the Desert, the World of the Jaredites, There Were Jaredites; An Approach to
the Book of Mormon; Since Cumorah. In Review
of Books on the Book of Mormon 1 (1989): 114-18.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS: CLASSICS
“Compton
on Lefkowitz on Todd Compton, Victim of
the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman And Indo-European
Myth and History.” Bryn Mawr
Classical Review (July 30, 2007), published online at
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-07-30.html.
“The Herodotean Mantic Session at Delphi.”
Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 137
(1994): 217-23.
“The Trial of the Satirist: Poetic Vitae (Aesop, Archilochus,
Homer) as Background for Plato’s Apology.” American
Journal of Philology 111.3 (Fall 1990): 330-47.
·
Reprinted in Gregory Nagy, ed., Greek
Literature Volume 6: Greek Literature and Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2002). According to the
publisher, this nine-volume anthology brings together “the articles that have
shaped modern classical studies.” “Since the study of Greek literature
encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the
collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on
their development.”
“What are the TOPNOI in Philebus 51c?” The Classical Quarterly 40.2 (1990): 549-52.
“The Barbed Rose: Sappho as Satirist.” Favonius 1 (1987): 1-7.
“Review of Bruno Gentili, Poetry
and Its Public in Ancient Greece.”
Favonius 2 (1988): 74-75.
“Review of Pierre Vidal-Nacquet, The Black Hunter.” Favonius
1 (1987): 53-55.
“The Re-united Symbol: Mystery Structures in Classical Recognition
Drama.” Epoche 13 (1985): 1-81.
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS: POPULAR CULTURE
“McCartney or Lennon? Beatle Myths and the Composing of the
Lennon-McCartney Songs.” Journal of
Popular Culture 22.2 (Fall 1988): 99-132.
Review of Gene Wolfe, The
Book of the New Sun. In Seventh East
Press 2.2 (Oct. 12, 1982): 15.
PAPERS PRESENTED
“Hamblin in Tooele: The Makings of a Pacifist.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 10, 2006.
“‘Polygamists in Faith’: The Persistence of Polygamy, as
Doctrine, in the Modern
LDS Church:
Some Historical Background.” My short contribution to the session “The
Persistence of Polygamy in the Contemporary Mormon Church.” Sunstone Symposium,
Salt Lake City,
August 10, 2006.
“The Hunchback Prophet: Victim of the Muses.” Sunstone Symposium,
Salt Lake City,
August 11, 2006.
“The Hunchback Prophet: Stories From My New Book.” Sunstone
Symposium West, Claremont, California, April 22, 2006.
“My 'Possible' Category: Joseph Smith's Lesser-Known Wives?”
Sunstone Symposium West, San Francisco, April 23, 2005.
“’Blessed Are You Who Are Poor’: Rich and Poor in the Gospel
and Politics.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt
Lake City, August 14, 2004.
Panel Presentation, on “Glimpses into the Past: Editing
Mormon Diaries.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt
Lake City, August 13, 2004.
Panel Presentation, on “Excavating Mormon Pasts.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 12, 2004.
“Dealing With Family Crisis In 1886: The Death Of Charley
Whitney And The Marriage Of Gen Whitney.” Sunstone West, Claremont, California,
April 17, 2004.
“Keeping The Faith.” Sunstone West, Claremont, California,
April 17, 2004.
Panelist on session discussing Jon Krakauer's Under The Banner Of Heaven, Sunstone
West, Claremont, California, April 17, 2004.
Panelist on “Women, Priesthood, And The Church: From Early
Christianity To Latter-Day Saints.” Sunstone West, Claremont, California,
April 17, 2004. (Excerpts from “‘Kingdom
of Priests’”: Priesthood, Temple and Women in the
Old Testament and in the Restoration,” in Dialogue:
A Journal of Mormon Thought 36.3 (Fall 2003): 41-60.)
“The Wrong Indian, the Wrong Mormon: Violence on the
Mormon-Navajo Frontier.” John Whitmer Historical Society, September 2003.
“Why You Should Read the Helen Mar Whitney Diaries.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 15, 2003.
Response to “The Other Massacres That Could Have Occurred,”
by Edward Leo Lyman, Sunstone Symposium, Salt
Lake City, August 15,
2003.
“The Parable Of The Good Samaritan: 'Orthodoxy,' Priesthood, Temple.” Sunstone West, San Francisco, April 19,
2003.
Panelist on “Author Meets Critic: Blood of the Prophets:
Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 9,
2002.
“Our Greatest Challenge: Why Women's Priesthood Needs to Be
Recognized in the LDS
Church Today.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 8, 2002.
“John Willard Young & Presidential Succession In Mormon
History.” Sunstone West, Pasadena,
California, April 20, 2002.
“The Spiritual Roots of the Democratic Party.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 11, 2001.
Panelist on “My Creed.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2001.
Response to “The Domestic Life of Brigham Young,” by Jeffrey
Johnson, Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake
City, August 10, 2001.
“Helen Mar Whitney as Dreamer and Priestness.” Sunstone West,
Millbrae, California,
March 21, 2001.
“Austin Cowles: Nauvoo Dissenter and RLDS Maverick.” John
Whitmer Historical Society, September 2000.
“The 1884-1896 Diaries of Helen Mar Whitney: Four Themes.”
Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 4, 2000.
“Christian Treasure: Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and
Folk Magic in Sympathetic Sources.” Sunstone West, Los Angeles, April 29, 2000.
“Response” to Newell Bringhurst on Writing his Biography of
Fawn Brodie, Sunstone West, Los
Angeles, April 29 2000.
“Plural Marriage, Abuse of Women, and Heavenly Rewards in
Mormonism.” In a conference sponsored by the Council for Secular Humanism,
“Imagine There’s No Heaven, a Future without Religion,” May 6, 2000.
“Was Jesus a Feminist?” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, July 1999.
“Making Sense of In
Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith.” 1998 Washington
D.C. Sunstone Symposium (Arlington, Virginia),
November 21, 1998. Plenary session.
“Sacred Loneliness, an Introduction, and some RLDS
Portraits.” John Whitmer Historical Society Meetings, 1998. Plenary session.
Participant in “Making Sense of Joseph Smith and Nineteenth
Century Mormon Women and Polygamy: Todd Compton’s In Sacred Loneliness.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August 1, 1998. Other
panelists: Linda Thatcher and Fred Christensen.
“The Ordeal of Josephine Lyon (Smith?) Fisher.” Sunstone
Symposium, Salt Lake City,
August 1, 1998.
“Apostle’s Wife: Mary Ann Stearns Pratt.” Mormon History
Association, Washington D.C., May 22, 1998
“On Being an Independent Scholar.” Talk given at
Intermountain Booksellers Association Banquet, Salt Lake City, Feb. 25, 1998. Available on
my website.
“Emily Partridge Smith Young: A Life in Polygamy.” Talk given
at Mormon History Association, May 18, 1996, at Snowbird, Utah. Comment by Jessie Embry.
“Fawn Brodie on Joseph Smith’s Polygamy: A Critical View.”
Paper given at Fawn Brodie Symposium, August, 1995, University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“Polygamy, Polygyny, Polyandry: An Overview of Joseph Smith’s
Plural Wives.” Sunstone Symposium West, August, 1995, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“A Trajectory of Polygamy: An Overview of Joseph Smith’s
Plural Wives.” Sunstone Symposium, March 1995, Oakland, California.
Respondent: Carmon Hardy.
“Sacred Loneliness: The Ordeal of Presendia Lathrop
Huntington Buell Smith Kimball.” Sunstone Symposium, August 19, 1994, Salt Lake City, Utah.
“Agnes Moulton Coolbrith Smith Smith Smith Pickett.” Sunstone
Symposium West, April 1994, Los
Angeles, California.
“The Parable of the Loving Father and Judgmental Son.”
Sunstone Symposium, August 1993, Salt
Lake City, Utah.
“Violence, Possession, Poetry: Dumézil’s Indo-European
Warrior as Poet.” The Fifth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, California,
May 29, 1993.
“Socrates on the Wasatch Front: Honest and Skillful
Apologetics.” Sunstone Symposium West, San Francisco Airport Clarion Hotel,
April 10, 1993.
“Mary Magdalene and the Recognition of Christ.” Sunstone
Talks on the New Testament, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, July 9, 1991.
Participant on panel, “How Timely, How Timeless: Scholars
Evaluate the Work of Hugh Nibley,” with Sheldon Greaves, Greg Dundes, Ed
Ashment. Sunstone Symposium West, Pasadena,
March 3, 1990.
“Non-Hierarchical Revelation.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, August
1989.
“Non-Hierarchical Revelation.” Sunstone Symposium West, Concord, California,
March 4, 1989.
“Ancient Sources of Masonic Ritual.” Co-written with “David
Ellis.” Sunstone Symposium West, Concord,
California, March 4, 1989.
“Woman and Priesthood.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City, Aug. 1988.
Response to Ian Barber and Susan Staker on Woman’s Authority
and Mormon Splinter Groups, Sunstone Symposium West, Los Angeles, Jan. 16, 1988.
“The Trial of the Poet: Aesop, Archilochus, Homer, Socrates.”
American Philological Assocation, December 1987.
“Magic, Folklore, and Religion: Connections in Early
Mormonism.” Southern California Academy of the Sciences, San Bernardino, California,
May 2, 1986.
“Response to Lyn Jacobs on Baptism for the Dead in Early
Christianity.” Sunstone Symposium West, San Francisco, January 31, 1987.
“Sexuality, Authority and Misogyny: Woman as Male in Gnostic
Christianity.” Sunstone Symposium, Salt
Lake City, Aug. 1985.
EDUCATION
Doctor of
Philosophy in Classics, University of California, Los
Angeles, 1988.
Master of Arts in
Classics, Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah,
1982.
Bachelor of Arts
in English, Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah,
1979.
THESES
“The Exile of the Poet: Bardic Expulsion and Death in the
Archaic Greek and Indo-European Traditions.” Ph.D. thesis, University of California,
Los Angeles,
1988. Jaan Puhvel, dissertation advisor.
“The Homeric Roots of Virgil’s Elysium” and “Notes on the
Manuscript Montpellier 360 of Sallust.” Master’s Thesis, Brigham
Young University,
Provo, Utah,
August 1982.
ACADEMIC JOB HISTORY
1993-2008. Independent Researcher.
1992, Summer. Visiting Fellow, Huntington Library. Topic of research: Eliza
R. Snow and Joseph Smith’s plural wives.
September, 1988 to March, 1989 (two semesters): Lecturer, University of Southern
California, Los
Angeles (Classics Department).
January to December, 1988 (two semesters): Lecturer, California State University,
Northridge (Classics Department).
June, July 1988: Lecturer, University
of California, Los Angeles (Classics Department).
1983-1987: Teaching Fellow and Assistant, University of California,
Los Angeles
(Classics Department).
1979-1983: Teaching Assistant, Brigham Young
University (English
Department).
Classes taught: English composition, Latin Elements in
English, Latin, Greek Civilization, Greek Religion and the Polis, Roman
Civilization, Classical Mythology.
EDITORIAL SERVICE
I have been History Editor at Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and have been a member of the
editorial board of Journal of Mormon
History.