Where are all the Religious Education Professors?

Another interesting thing becomes apparent when you peruse the list of the advisory board for the new Mormon Studies Review (MSR).

http://www.maxwellinstituteblog.org/announcing-the-new-mormon-studies-review-2/

No one from BYU Religious Education (or BYU affiliates or CES) appears among the advisory board or editors.  Is this because there are no legitimate Mormon Studies scholars in BYU Religious education?  Is it because they didn’t ask anyone from Religious Education?  Or is it because no one from Religious Education accepted?  And, in either case, why?

This, combined with the absence of people doing ancient studies (pace Hardy), Mesoamerican studies, or the classic FARMS crowd is puzzling.  The advisory board seems strongly, if not overwhelmingly weighted towards the secular-style 19-20 century Mormon Studies/History.  Doctrine, ancient studies, ancient scripture, temple ideology, archaeology, ancient linguistics, historical Book of Mormon, Book of Abraham, are all noticeably unrepresented.

Again, this is not necessarily a bad thing.  19-20 century Mormon Studies is clearly an important field that merits serious attention.  But it does represent a major, and obviously intentional shift away from classic FARMS studies.  Given this completely new direction of the MSR, it is increasingly unclear why it was felt it was necessary to shut down the old FARMS Review in order to start the new MSR.  The two journals would clearly be complementary, not competing.  There is no obvious reason the FARMS Review and the Mormon Studies Review could not have both been published by the Maxwell Institute.   The motivations behind the bureaucratic decision to squelch the old FARMS Review remains, as it has for eight months, a perplexing mystery.