Sessions
Latter Day Histories Lecture with Elisa Pulido & Interview by Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Thu
Elisa Eastwood Pulido is a Religious Historian and the author of The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford: 2020), which won Best Biography awards in 2021 from both the Mormon History Association and the John Whitmer Historical Society. She holds a BA in German from BYU, an MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Claremont Graduate University (2015). She has since been a teacher of World Religions at BYU, Salt Lake Center, and a Visiting Scholar at CGU. She is currently an independent researcher working on a new book, tentatively titled "Divorce, Stigma, and Disaffiliation in American Religions." She lives in Huntington Beach, CA.