Brian Birch is the director of the Religious Studies Program and Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University where he teaches philosophy of religion, ethics, and Mormon Studies. He is the founding editor of Element: The Journal of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and co-editor of the Perspectives on Mormon Theology series.
Barbara Jones Brown is the executive director of the Mormon History Association. She is currently co-authoring a forthcoming second volume of Massacre at Mountain Meadows with Richard E. Turley. She holds an MA in American History from the University of Utah.
Steven Harper is a historian for the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he has served as a volume editor of The Joseph Smith Papers and later as managing historian and a general editor of Saints: The Story of The Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. He earned a Ph.D. in early American history from Lehigh University and has taught at Brigham Young University campuses in Hawaii and Utah. He is the author of dozens of articles and two books on early Latter-day Saint history, including First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins.
John Hatch is a historian and an editor for Signature Books. He earned a degree in history from the University of Utah and his published work includes Danish Apostle: The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, and contributions to Sunstone, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and the Journal of Mormon History. He is currently working on a biography of LDS church president Lorenzo Snow.
Claire Haynie is a historian for the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She received a Master’s degree in US History from the University of Oxford, where she wrote her dissertation "Savior Seagulls: The Evolution of a Mormon Myth."
Sara Patterson is a professor of theological studies at Hanover College, where she teaches courses in theology, history of Christianity, and religion in the Americas. Her research investigates the intersections of religious experience, place and community and how gender, race and ethnicity affect religious experiences and religious communities. She is the author of Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail.
Rebecca Roesler is a professor of music at BYU–Idaho. She received a Ph.D. in Music and Human Learning from the University of Texas at Austin. She has presented at the Book of Mormon Studies Association conference and the Mormon History Association.
David Scott is a professor of communication at Utah Valley University. His publications include “Dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark: Multi-media Narratives and Natural Science Museum Discourse at the Creation Museum in Kentucky” in the Journal of Media & Religion and “Communicating Jesus” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication and Media, and Religion & Mass Media.
Ethan Sproat is an assistant professor of English at Utah Valley University, where he teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, technical communication, editing, and speculative fiction. He received his Ph.D. in English rhetoric and composition from Purdue University in 2013.
Stephen Taysom is an associate professor of philosophy and comparative religion at Cleveland State University. He earned a BA in history at BYU and MA and Ph.D. degrees in the history of religion at Indiana University. His first book, Mormons, Shakers, and Religious Worlds, was published by Indiana University Press in 2010. Current projects include a scholarly biography of Joseph F. Smith.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and a past president of both the American Historical Association and the Mormon History Association. A former MacArthur Fellow, she is the author of many articles and books on early American and Mormon history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Midwife's Tale and A House Full of Females. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College.
Michael Van Wagenen is an associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Remembering the Forgotten War: The Enduring Legacies of the U.S.-Mexican War and The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God.
