Richard Bushman

Richard Bushman
Bushman in the 2016 film By Study and Also by Faith
Born	Richard Lyman Bushman (1931-06-20) June 20, 1931 (age 92) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Spouse	Claudia Lauper Bushman ​ ​ (m. 1955)​
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
Thesis	Government and Society in Connecticut, 1690–1760 (1961)
Doctoral advisor	Oscar Handlin[1]
Other advisors	Bernard Bailyn[2]
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Colonial American history Mormon history
School or tradition	New Mormon history
Institutions	Columbia University
Notable works	Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (2005)

Richard Lyman Bushman (born June 20, 1931) is an American historian and Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, having previously taught at Brigham Young University, Harvard University, Boston University, and the University of Delaware. Bushman is the author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, a biography of Joseph Smith, progenitor of the Latter Day Saint movement. Bushman also was an editor for the Joseph Smith Papers Project and now serves on the national advisory board.^[3][4] Bushman has been called "one of the most important scholars of American religious history" of the late-20th century. In 2012, a $3-million donation to the University of Virginia established the Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies in his honor.^[5]