2025 Spring Event Bios

David J. Howlett is visiting assistant professor of religion at Smith College where he has taught since 2019. Born and raised in Independence, Missouri, David holds a PhD in religious studies (American religious history) from the University of Iowa. He is the author of Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space (University of Illinois Press, 2014) and co-author of Mormonism: The Basics. David serves as a volunteer world church historian for Community of Christ and lives in Easthampton, Massachusetts with his wife, the Rev. Anna Woofenden, and their pre-school-age daughter, Jarena.