Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received a BA from Amherst College, and a PhD from Yale University. Her expertise is religious history of the American West and African-American religious history. She is currently the co-director of the History of Christian Practice Project, a four-year initiative sponsored by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. She has also served on the editorial boards of Church History and The North Star. In 1999 she gave the Tanner Lecture at the Mormon History Association annual meeting. She is a member of the United Church of Christ.