Bryan Waterman

BRYAN WATERMAN, a Ph.D. candidate in American studies at Boston Uni- versity, is former editor of BYU's Student Review, former associate editor of Sunstone magazine, and co-author of The Lord's University: Freedom and Authority at BYU (Signature Books), from which "Ernest Wilkinson and the Transformation of BYU's Honor Code, 1965-71" is excerpted. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and children.

“Awaiting Translation”: Timothy Liu, Identity Politics, and the Question of Religious Authenticity

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

In a 1991 New York Times Book Review article, African-American literary theorist and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr., used the bizarre case of The Education of Little Tree to reexamine the issues of “identity” and “authenticity” in literary studies.

Millennium Approaches: An Introduction to New Mormon Scholarship

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 1

We borrow the title for this issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches. In this play Harper Pitt, an agoraphobic Mormon…

Kayenta

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2

Summers we paint relocation houses
on the res, beige and grey,
“Navajo white/’ our brushes dripping
Dutch Boy on red Arizona earth.

Ernest Wilkinson and the Transformation of BYU’s Honor Code, 1965-71

Articles/Essays – Volume 31, No. 4

For the first fourteen years of his tenure as president of BYU (1951-65), Ernest Wilkinson was largely occupied with expanding the school’s size and its academic reputation. His goal of creating the world’s most important…