| David F. Holland | |
|---|---|
 Holland in 2016 | |
| Born | 1973 (age 50–51) United States |
| Alma mater | Brigham Young University (BA) Stanford University (MA, PhD) |
| Occupation | Professor of American Religious History |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Harvard University University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| Website | Harvard University Faculty Profile |
David Frank Holland (born 1973) is an American professor and historian. He is currently the John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History at Harvard Divinity School, where he also was appointed as interim dean during the Fall 2024 semester. He was previously a director of graduate studies in religion at Harvard University and an associate professor of history at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Biography
Holland graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history from Brigham Young University (BYU) and subsequently received a MA and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. While he was a graduate student Holland took a summer seminar in Mormon History at BYU with Richard Bushman. He has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Yale's Center for Religion and American Life.
Holland's noted articles include "From Anne Hutchinson to Horace Bushnell: A New Take on the New England Sequence" (The New England Quarterly, 2005), and " 'A Mixed Construction of Subversion and Conversion': The Complicated Lives and Times of Religious Women" (Gender and History, 2010).
In 2011, Holland was named the Nevada professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Personal life
Holland is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a son of Jeffrey R. Holland and Patricia T. Holland. He served as a missionary for the Church in Czechoslovakia and was a bishop in Nevada. Since August 2020, he has been serving as president of the church's Worcester Massachusetts Stake.
Published works
- Holland, David F. (2011), Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199753611, retrieved July 15, 2021
- —— (2020), Moroni: a brief theological introduction, The Neal A Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, ISBN 978-0842500135
References
- Don L. Searle (August 1995). "Elder Jeffrey R. Holland: Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles". Liahona. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
- R. Scott Lloyd "New generation of historians presenting a better view of Mormonism to the world, speaker says", Deseret News, June 6, 2015
- UNLV news announcement on Holland being named professor of the year
- Knpr article on Holland being named professor of the year
- "David Holland | Las Vegas LDS Neighbor". www.lasvegasldsneighbor.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- Trent Toone,"Nevada bishop honored as 2011 professor of the year", Deseret News, Dec. 1, 2011.
- "Growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church): New Stakes Created in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Wyoming". 6 September 2020.
External links
- Harvard University Profile of David F. Holland
- Harvard Divinity School announcement of Holland's appointment
- Review of Holland's Sacred Borders
- American leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- Harvard Divinity School faculty
- Harvard Extension School faculty
- Brigham Young University alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty
- Living people
- American Mormon missionaries in Czechoslovakia
- 20th-century Mormon missionaries
- 1973 births
- Latter Day Saints from Nevada
- Latter Day Saints from New Hampshire
- American male non-fiction writers