Mormon Wrestling: A Genealogy – Documentary Screening with Filmmaker David Walker

March 26
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Harrison Auditorium of the Albert and Shriley Small Special Collections Library

170 McCormick Rd. , Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Charlottesville, VA 22904-1001
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David Walker is the J. F. Rowny Chair in Religion and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His work focuses on the intersections of religion, settlement policy, technology, and popular culture from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries.

Walker was a UVA Mormon Studies Library Research Fellow in 2023. Using resources available in our Prince Collection, Walker explored how the LDS Church and Mormon professional wrestlers and their fans negotiated their identities, especially as the church and wrestling became global institutions in the twentieth century.

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