The 1911 modernism controversy at Brigham Young University was an episode involving four professors at Brigham Young University, who between 1908 and 1911 widely taught evolution and higher criticism
The four professors at the center of the controversy: Joseph and Henry Peterson (top row) and Ralph and W. H. Chamberlin (bottom)
Joseph Peterson was an American psychologist and a past president of the American Psychological Association.
1911 Brigham Young University modernism controversy
…administrations." In 1907, BYU president George H. Brimhall began hiring a new group of faculty to increase the academic reputation of his school. Joseph Peterson was hired to teach psychology, and his brother Henry Peterson hired as the director of the College of Education. Joseph Peterson was the first Ph.D on…
Peterson, c. 1911