Taylor G. Petrey
Taylor G. Petrey is the Ann V. and Donald R. Parfet Distinguished Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College and a scholar of early Christianity and modern Mormonism whose work centers on gender, sexuality, and kinship. He is the author of three books, including Tabernacles of Clay (UNC Press, 2020), winner of the Mormon History Association’s Best Book award and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos (UNC Press, 2024).
From 2019 to 2025 he was editor in chief of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. A frequent public commentator, he has been quoted in the New York Times and Washington Post, has written for Slate and The Conversation, and is a regular guest on RadioWest. He holds a ThD and MTS from Harvard Divinity School.
Eugene England Summer Institute
June 6-12, 2027
Midway, Utah
Jana Riess, Benjamin Park, and I are offering a free, week-long writing retreat for approximately 8-10 graduate students, early-career faculty, and independent scholars working on topics related to Mormon studies. The Eugene England Summer Institute (EESI) fosters scholarship on “Mormonism,” broadly construed, through mentoring and peer support. We create community and relationships among scholars representing a diversity of backgrounds, research subjects, and methodologies.
Recent Publications
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Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos
University of North Carolina Press, 2024. Association of Mormon Letters award finalist.
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![Cover of The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition, edited by Taylor G. Petrey, Cory Crawford, and Eric A. Eliason]()
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition
Edited with Cory Crawford and Eric A. Eliason. University of Utah Press, 2023. Association of Mormon Letters award finalist.
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![Cover of Tabernacles of Clay by Taylor G. Petrey]()
Tabernacles of Clay
University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Best Book, Mormon History Association; Choice Outstanding Academic Title; Association of Mormon Letters award finalist.
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![Cover of Resurrecting Parts by Taylor G. Petrey]()
Resurrecting Parts
Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference. Routledge, 2015.
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![Cover of The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender, edited by Amy Hoyt and Taylor G. Petrey]()
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
Edited with Amy Hoyt. Routledge, 2020. Choice Highly Recommended Title.
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![Cover of Re-Making the World: Christianity and Categories]()
Re-Making the World: Christianity and Categories
Essays in Honor of Karen L. King. Edited with associate editors Carly Daniel-Hughes, Benjamin H. Dunning, AnneMarie Luijendijk, and Laura S. Nasrallah. Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
