Reason for Hope is a semi-annual conference series on the importance of personal faith and reason while living in a changing, modern world.
1:00 PM | Ed Gantt
2:00 PM | Natalie Gochnour
3:00 PM | David Dollahite
4:00 PM| Panel Q&A
Edwin Gantt is currently a Professor of Psychology at Brigham Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institution. He received his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Duquesne University, where he focused on existential-phenomenological psychology and qualitative research methods. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He is co-author (with Richard N. Williams) of Psychology-for-the-Other: Levinas, Ethics, and the Practice of Psychotherapy, On Hijacking Science: Exploring the Nature and Consequences of Overreach in Psychology (also with Richard N. Williams), and author of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Psychological Issues. He is currently co-authoring a book on the intellectual history of psychology. Professor Gantt is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and for Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy. He currently serves on the Governing Board of the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists (AMCAP). He teaches courses in the History and Philosophy of Psychology, Personality Theory, Qualitative Research Methods, Psychology of Religion, and (his favorite) LDS Perspectives and Psychology. He recently retired as the Head Coach of the BYU Men’s Ice Hockey team. Professor Gantt and his wife Anita are the proud parents of four sons (Jared, Mark, Ben, and Stephen) and joyfully happy grandparents of two energetic grandsons.
Natalie Gochnour serves as an associate dean in the David Eccles School of Business and director of the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah. She also serves as the chief economist for the Salt Lake Chamber. In these roles she helps connect the Eccles School with the broader business community and shares applied economic and business research.
She helped create and lead the Downtown Rising movement, helped pass a ballot initiative to secure funds for the expansion of Utah’s TRAX light rail and FrontRunner commuter rail service, and assisted with the drafting and promotion of The Utah Compact.
In 2012, Gochnour was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award for business from the YWCA Salt Lake City. She has also been honored by Wasatch Women magazine as the “Wasatch Women of the Year.”
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).