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Staff Highlight: Adam Hellewell ADAM HELLEWELL (adam_hellewell@byu.edu) IS A SECRETARY IN THE DEANS’ OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AT BYU.
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orn and raised in Salem, Oregon, Adam served in the Argentina
Rosario Mission and graduated from BYU–Idaho with a degree in business
management. Before joining BYU Religious Education, he worked as a legal
assistant for attorneys in Oregon and Utah for nine years. As a secretary in the dean’s office, Adam’s responsibilities include working with the two associate deans, the Religious Education graduate programs, the Council of Religious Outreach, and the Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding. Adam and his wife, Amanda, live in Orem and enjoy hiking, photography, making and eating good food, and listening to records.
Faculty Highlight: Krystal V. L. Pierce KRYSTAL V. L. PIERCE (krystal_pierce@byu.edu) IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AT BYU.
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rystal V. L. Pierce joined the full-time faculty of Religious
Education in 2020 after teaching part-time in the Department of Ancient
Scripture since 2013. She received a PhD in Egyptian archaeology and Near
Eastern languages and cultures from UCLA and an MA and BA in Near Eastern studies from UC Berkeley. She has taught classes on Egyptology and ancient Near Eastern studies at the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. She has excavated at several sites in Egypt and Israel and is currently head registrar for the Tel Shimron Excavations in the Galilee region of Israel. Her research interests include social and cultural identities, expatriates and refugees, and personhood and gender in the ancient Near East and the Book of Mormon. Her most recent publication is the coedited volume Excavations at the Seila Pyramid and Fag el-Gamous Cemetery (Brill, 2020). She and her husband, Prof. George Pierce, have two children.
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