Kathleen Flake

Kathleen Flake was appointed to the Richard L. Bushman chair of Mormon studies at the University of Virginia in 2013. Previously she was a professor of American Religious History at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion at Vanderbilt University. She has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of Utah. She was previously an attorney based in Washington, D.C. She has an M.A. from the Catholic University of America and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. While a graduate student Flake took a summer seminar course for graduate students on Mormon History with Richard L. Bushman.

Flake is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission in Japan.