Biography
David C. Dollahite is Professor of Family Life at Brigham Young University where he teaches classes and conducts research on the links between religion and family life. He is Co-Director (with Dr. Loren Marks) of the American Families of Faith Project. He received the Eliza R. Snow Fellowship for his research on religion and family relationships and was an Associate Director of the School of Family Life.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Center on Adolescence, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Dominican University of California, and was the Jawaharlal Nehru Visiting Scholar at Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, India.
Professor Dollahite obtained a bachelor’s degree in family life and a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from BYU (1985) and a doctorate in family studies from the University of Minnesota (1989).
He is co-author (with Loren D. Marks) of Religion and Families: An Introduction (2017, Routledge). He has published over 100 scholarly articles and chapters and has edited or co-edited four books including Generative Fathering (Sage, 1998) and three volumes on LDS family life: Successful Marriages and Families (BYU Studies, forthcoming), Helping and Healing Our Families (Deseret Book, 2005), and Strengthening Our Families (Bookcraft, 2000).
David and his wife, Mary Kimball Dollahite, J.D. have been married since August of 1983 and are the lucky parents of seven terrific kids—Rachel, Erica, Camilla, Kathryn, Spencer, Jonathan, and Luke and are grandparents of David, Edward, and Eliza Lambourne (children of Rachel and Collin Lambourne).
Research Interests
The nexus of religion and family relationshipsTeaching Interests
Current Classes:MFHD 645 Religion and Families
SFL 345 Family in World Religions
SFL 460 Advanced Family Processes
Honors and Awards
- Camilla Eyring Kimball Professorship, College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences (2018 - Present)
- Best Public Scholarship Publication, School of Family Life (2019 - 2019)
- Research Award, School of Family Life (2015 - 2015)
- Virginia F. Cutler Lecturer, BYU, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences (2015 - 2015)
- Co-recipient (with Sam A. Hardy) of Marjorie Pay Hinckley Research Award, College of Family, Home, & Social Sciences (2013 - 2014)
Memberships
- American Psychological Association (2017 - Present)
- Religious Research Association (2003 - Present)
- Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2003 - Present)
- National Council on Family Relations (1983 - Present)
Professional Citizenship
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary Religion (2022 - Present)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Marriage and Family Review (2021 - Present)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality (2011 - Present)
- Committee/Council Member, Sesame Workshop (2018 - 2018)
- Editorial Review Board Member, Religions (international online scholarly journal ) (2010 - 2018)
- Editorial Review Board Member, BYU Studies Quarterly (2012 - 2017)
- Media Interview, Various Media Outlets (2015 - 2015)
- Other, John Templeton Foundation (2010 - 2010)
- Other, Search Institutue Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence (2006 - 2008)