816 Unique But Not Different

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Meagan Rainock (PhD, Sociology, Vanderbilt University) is a postdoctoral fellow in a joint

appointment split between the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt and

the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Fisk University. As a sociologist, she studies the

identities, obstacles, and experiences of minorities as they navigate social institutions, and has

published work in the areas of religion, education, criminal justice, and mental health. She

currently lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter.

Shinji Takagi, a retired economist, continues his research in economics and now also in

Mormon studies. Author or coauthor of nearly 200 publications in economics, he has

more than a dozen publications in Mormon and biblical studies; he currently serves as an

Editorial Advisory Board member of the Mormon Studies Review. His 2016 book, The

Trek East: Mormonism Meets Japan, 1901–1968, received the 2017 Best International

Book Award from the Mormon History Association. Since 2020, he has been dividing his

time between Ashburn, Va., a suburb of Washington, D.C. where he held his last full-time

job, and Fukuoka, Japan, to look after his 96-year-old mother.

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