Academic Work
Mauss joined the Washington State University faculty of sociology in 1969, formally retiring there in 1999. During his career, he taught and published in several different fields of sociology and social problems, but his work in the sociology of religion was ultimately the most visible. He has enjoyed invitations as a visiting professor to several universities in California, Canada, and the United Kingdom. In 2004, he was invited as a visiting scholar to the School of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University in California, where he taught courses on the history and sociology of the Mormons and helped to develop the Council for the Study of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Howard W. Hunter Chair in Mormon Studies, first occupied by Richard L. Bushman.
Author or editor of five books and scores of academic articles, Mauss also served as editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, the major journal in its field. He has received three different awards from the Mormon History Association for his books and other works, and two from the Dialogue Foundation for his articles in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, the major scholarly journal in Mormon Studies, independent of Church auspices. Mauss had a formative influence on the rise and survival of Dialogue, serving 20 years on its editorial or advisory boards, and then ten years as either chairman or member of the Dialogue Foundation's Board of Directors. Mauss also served as president of the Mormon History Association from 1997–1998.
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