Susan Easton Black
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Susan Easton Black (born Susan Lindsay Ward in 1944) is a retired professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. She is also an author of several books related to Joseph Smith and the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Career
Black holds an Ed.D. from BYU, where she joined the faculty in 1978. Black was the first female full-time professor in BYU’s religion department.[1] Black received the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Award in 2000 and was the first woman to receive the award.[2] She also served as an associate dean of General Education and Honors.[3] Her passion for LDS history began as a child hearing stories of the early church from her grandmother, born in Utah in 1872, to British immigrant parents.[4]
LDS Church service
In 2009, Black was a founding trustee of the LDS Church-based Nauvoo University.[5] In retirement, she has served LDS Church missions as a psychologist for LDS Family Services, as well as at the Nauvoo Illinois Temple and St. George Temple Visitors’ Center, and a writer for the Priesthood and Family Department.[2] In 2011, Black was invited by the Utah Democrats to be the keynote speaker at their annual Eleanor Roosevelt luncheon.[6]
Personal life
She was married to Harvey B. Black prior to his death. In 2013, she married George Durrant. They later served as missionaries in the Nauvoo Illinois Temple. As of January 2016[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., they had served several church service historical missions in St. George, Utah.[7][8][9]
Works
Among her books are Joseph Smith: Praise to the Man (with John Telford), Joseph, Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet (with Andrew Skinner), Setting the Record Straight: Emma Smith: An Elect Lady, Setting the Record Straight: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, Son of Man, Vol. 1: The Early Years (with Liz Lemon Swindle), The A to Z of Church History and Doctrine and Covenants,[10] and Who's Who in the Doctrine and Covenants.
References
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- ↑ McBaine, Neylan. "A Woman of Character", The Latter-day Saint Women Project, 1 March 2012. Retrieved on 25 March 2021.
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- ↑ Clark, Cody. "1010 Susan Easton Black", Daily Herald (Utah), 10 October 2004. Retrieved on 29 March 2021.
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- ↑ Stack, Peggy Fletcher. "A blue-meets-blue bash: BYU history prof to headline Utah Dems' luncheon", The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 October 2011. Retrieved on 29 March 2021.
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- ↑ Listing of books by Susan Easton Black at Deseret Book
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External links
- Article on LDS and Quincy
- Susan Easton Black research materials, MSS 7660 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University
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- 1944 births
- American Latter Day Saint writers
- Brigham Young University alumni
- Brigham Young University faculty
- Historians of the Latter Day Saint movement
- Living people
- American women historians
- American Mormon missionaries in the United States
- Female Mormon missionaries
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- 21st-century Mormon missionaries
- Latter Day Saints from Utah