About the Speaker: Jan Shipps, professor emerita of history and religious studies at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, is recognized worldwide for her scholarship on Mormonism. Though she has never been a Mormon, Shipps describes herself as an "insider-outsider" to the faith, capturing her intimate knowledge of the religion and her academic relation to it. In addition to a host of articles and edited volumes, Shipps has published Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (1985) and, more recently, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons (2000). She is currently the president of the American Society of Church History, the oldest organization of professional historians in the United States.