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Two scholars who have written about Mormonism were among 35 academics and journalists named Wednesday as 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame's Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, explored with John C. Green and J. Quin Monson, the landscape of LDS views in a 2014 volume, "Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics."
Campbell's Carnegie project is "Godless Politics: The Politics of Secularism in the United States."
Jared Farmer, associate professor of history at Stony Brook University in New York, looked at the intersection of the historic relationship between LDS pioneers and their adopted environment in his 2010 book, "On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians and the American Landscape."
Farmer's new project will examine the "Latest Oldest Living Beings."
The Carnegie Foundation gives up to $200,000 to each recipient for research and writing in the social sciences and humanities. The expectation is that they will all publish a book or major study based on the proposals.
Peggy Fletcher Stack