John S. Tanner (Mormon)
| John S. Tanner | |
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| 10th President of BYU–Hawaii | |
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In office July 27, 2015 – Present |
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| Preceded by | Steven C. Wheelwright |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 27, 1950 Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Spouse(s) | Susan W. Tanner |
| Alma mater |
Brigham Young University University of California at Berkeley |
John Sears Tanner (born July 27, 1950) is the 10th and current president of Brigham Young University-Hawaii (BYU-Hawaii). He previously served as first counselor in the General Sunday School Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (2014 to 2015), as president of the church's Brazil São Paulo South Mission (2011 to 2014) and as Academic Vice President of Brigham Young University (BYU). Tanner is married to Susan W. Tanner, a former general president of the LDS Church's Young Women organization.
Tanner was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and grew up in Pasadena, California, one of 13 children born to William and Athelia Tanner. He served an LDS mission in Brazil. In 1974, Tanner received a bachelor's degree from BYU. While at BYU he met Susan Winder. They married in the Salt Lake Temple in 1974. He then began studies at the University of California at Berkeley where he received a Ph.D. in English in 1980.
Tanner began his academic career as an assistant professor at Florida State University. He has also been a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil. Bothered in Florida by the freedom that feminist and atheist colleagues had to speak about their beliefs, while he had to hold his tongue about his, as well as by his wife's homesickness for Utah, Tanner became a member of the BYU faculty in 1982. Tanner has focused much of his study on John Milton. His book, Anxiety in Eden, received the Best Book Award from the Milton Society of America in 1992. Tanner also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.
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