USU names finalists to head up Mormon studies program

Utah State University has announced three finalists — two men and one woman — to become the new Arrington Chair of Mormon Studies.They are:• Patrick Mason, the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.• Sara Patterson, associate professor of theological studies at Hanover College in Indiana, whose forthcoming book “Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail” is being published by Oxford