Jan Shipps bio

Jan Shipps is professor emeritus of religious studies and history at Indiana University-Purdue University, and one of the foremost scholars of Mormonism. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and a senior editor of The Journals of William McLellin, 1831-1836, the earliest extended account of the Mormon experience. Shipps was the first non-Mormon (and first woman) elected president of the Mormon History Association. Her articles about the Latter-day Saints have been published in a variety of academic and popular journals, and her book Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons combines her personal experiences among the Mormons with a lifetime of study and observation. She is now at work on a book about Mormonism Since World War II.