Contact: thomaswmurphy90@gmail.com
Relevant Links: Google Scholar, SSRN, YouTube
Research Interests with GMS: Indigenous Mormonisms, Settler Colonialism, Book of Mormon, Race, Racism, Genetics
Relevant Publications:
Murphy, Thomas W. Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon (U. of Utah Press, 2026).
Murphy, Thomas W. “An Insufficient Canon: The Popol Wuj, Book of Mormon, and Other Scriptures,” Journal of Mormon History 48.3 (2022), 71-98.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Views from Turtle Island: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Mormon Entanglements,” in Gordon Shepherd, Gary Shepherd, and Ryan Cragun, eds. Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (Palgrave, 2020), 751-779.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Other Scriptures: Restoring Voices of Gantowisas to an Open Canon,” in P. Jane Hafen and Brenden Rensink, eds. Essays on American Indian and Mormon History (U. of Utah Press, 2019), 23-40.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Decolonization on the Salish Sea: A Tribal Journey back to Mormon Studies,” in Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks, eds. Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion (U. of Utah Press, 2018), 47-66.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Other Mormon Histories: Lamanite Subjectivity in Mexico,” Journal of Mormon History 26.2 (2000), 179-214.
Murphy, Thomas W. “From Racist Stereotype to Ethnic Identity: Instrumental Uses of Mormon Racial Doctrine,” Ethnohistory 46.3 (1999), 451-480.
Murphy, Thomas W. “‘Stronger than Ever’: Remnants of the Third Convention,” Journal of Latter Day Saint History 10.1 (1998), 1, 8-11.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Guatemalan Hot/Cold Medicine and Mormon Words of Wisdom: Intercultural Negotiation of Meaning,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 36.2 (1997), 297-308.
Murphy, Thomas W. “Reinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as a Harbinger of the Future?” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 29.1 (1996), 177-192.