K. Mohrman

K. Mohrman is an Associate Teaching Professor in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Denver. Her work examines formations and histories of sexuality, race, religion, gender, and nation in the context of nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century US imperialism. Her book, Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism, published by the University of Minnesota Press (2022), argues that contestations over Mormonism in popular and political culture have played a central role in shaping national identity and ideology, particularly through the production and maintenance of sexual normativity and racial hierarchy. She was the recipient of the 2022-2023 Mormon History Association Best Book Award for her book. Her work has also appeared in Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; American Quarterly; American Religion; Journal of International and Intercultural Communication; Mormon Studies Review; and Radical History Review, among other venues. She was the recipient of the 2018-2019 LGBT Religious History Award for her paper, “Becoming White: Theologizing Heteronormativity in Mormonism, 1890-1945.” Currently, she is working on a project about Mormonism on reality TV. 

Ph.D., American Studies with a minor in Feminist and Critical Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University
B.A., Study of Women and Gender with a minor in History, Smith College

K. Mohrman. "Contextualizing the Proclamation." In The Family: A Proclamation to the World edited by Taylor G. Petrey and Caroline Kline. Press TBD.

K. Mohrman and Mia Fischer. "'As-Salaam-Alaikum, Bitches!': Secular Neoliberal Multiculturalism and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City." American Quarterly 77, no. 1 (March 2025): 105-131. 

K. Mohrman. “Documenting Gender and Sexuality in Mormonism: D. Michael Quinn, LGBTQ Historiography, and Making Religion Matter.” In DNA Mormon: Perspective on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn, edited by Benjamin Park. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2022: 103-111.

K. Mohrman, Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.

K. Mohrman, “Mormonism and the Heart of Whiteness,” Journal Supplement: Mormons, Race, and the History of Sexuality, American Religion (April 13, 2022): https://www.american-religion.org/mormons-race-sexuality.

K. Mohrman. “Same-Sex Marriage?! What Next, Polygamy? Mormonism in U.S. Political Culture,” Mormon Studies Review 8 (2021): 57-67.

K. Mohrman. “Polygamy.” In Routledge History of American Sexuality, edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jason Ruiz, and David Serlin. New York: Routledge, 2020: 263-275.

K. Mohrman. “Queer Mormons.” In Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender, edited by Taylor Petrey and Amy Hoyt. New York: Routledge, 2020: 525-538. 

Mia Fischer and K. Mohrman. “Multicultural Integration in Germany: Race, Religion, and the Mesut Özil Controversy,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (2020).

K. Mohrman. “Review: Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism,” Theology & Sexuality 26, no. 1 (2020): 79-81.

K. Mohrman. “Review: Gay Rights and the Mormon Church: Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences,” Sociology of Religion, 81, no. 1 (Spring 2020): 123-125.

K. Mohrman and Mis Fischer. “Intersectionality.” The Sage Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society edited by Debra L. Merskin. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2020: 846-847.

K. Mohrman. “Review: A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion (July 20, 2018), https://doi-org.aurarialibrary.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfy032.

Mia Fischer and K. Mohrman. “Black Deaths Matter? Sousveillance and the Invisibility of Black Lives.” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, no. 10 (November 2016)

K. Mohrman. “Queering the LDS Archive.” In “Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings,” edited by Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb Tortorici. Special Issue, Radical History Review, no. 122 (Spring 2015): 143-159.

• ETST 1111: Stories We Tell: Explorations of Race, Ethnicity, Culture
• WGST 1111 002: Queer Histories, Queer Lives: Introduction to Queer Theory and Trans Studies
• ETST 2000: Introduction to Ethnic Studies 
• ETST 2024: Find Your Voice, Change the World
• WGST 3020: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Popular Culture
• ETST 3272: Global Media
• ETST 4000/5000: Research Methods
• ETST 4030/5030: Race, Religion, and Belonging in the US
• ETST/WGST 4305/5305: Women of Color Feminisms
• ETST XXXX: Critical Race Theory
• ETST XXXX: Racial Capitalism