Item Detail
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25990
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4
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English
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Ripe Fields, Plentiful Laborers, Few Jobs : The Prospects and Challenges for Early-Career Mormon Studies Scholars
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Journal of Mormon History
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January 2015
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41
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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174-183
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This brief essay reflects on three areas that impact the lives of new Mormon studies scholars: the world of publishing, the job market, and the future of the field of Mormon studies. The author draws upon his own experiences as an early-career scholar in his fifth year of teaching beyond the PhD, as well as the experiences of his early-career colleagues. The author works to convey how hard it is to actually find meaningful academic employment beyond the PhD in the field of Mormon Studies. [From the article]