Jan Shipps
JAN SHIPPS is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and History at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her first book on the subject was Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition published by the University of Illinois Press. Recently, Illinois published her Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, in which she interweaves her own history of Mormon-watching with sixteen essays on Mormon history and culture.