Curriculum Vitae

Author Meets Critics: Joseph and Lucy Smith’s Tunbridge Farm: An Archaeology and Landscape Study (2021)

Does the LDS Church Do More Harm or More Good? (2016)

Four Views of the Book of Mormon (2016)

Four Views of Joseph Smith: Historians Debate the Prophet Puzzle (2015)

Worlds Without End (2014)

AI-Assisted Coordination: Solving Incentive Misalignment in Real Time (2025)

Admission 25 Cents: The Exhibition of the Abraham Papyri and the Occultation of the Golden Plates (2021)

Mormons and Mining: A Historical Case Study on Money, Moral Institutions, and Moral Hazard (2021)

Contextualizing Joseph Smith’s Proposal to Nancy Rigdon (2019)

Selling the Book of Mormon for Profit: Reassessing Profit Motive in the Religious Economy (2019)

‘Chastising’ Shoshones and Goshutes, 1850–1851 (2017)

Joseph Smith Didn’t Set Out to Start a Church (Let Alone a New Religion) (2017)

Panel discussion on Orson Scott Card (2017)

Managing the Book of Abraham Crisis: A History (2015)

Adoption of Ecstatic Native American Practices in Early Mormon Ohio (2014)

Playing Lamanite: Ecstatic Performance of a Re-imagined Indian Identity in Early Mormonism (2014)

The Book of Mormon and the Myth of the Frontier (2014)

J. Dunham Lamanite: Early Mormon Leader, Mystic, and Indian Ambassador (2013)

Anti-Islamic Sentiment and Media Framing during the 9/11 Decade (2012)

B. H. Roberts’s 1909 General Conference Address on Post-Second Manifesto Polygamy (2012)

Book of Mormon Archaeology and the Construction of the ‘Lunatic Fringe’: Jose Davila, John Brewer, and the Ancient Records of Central Utah (2012)

‘Right of the Firstborn’: Lineage and Heredity in the Theology of Joseph Smith (2011)

Early Mormonism as an Apocalyptic, Charismatic Missionary Movement for the Conversion of the American Indians (2011)

Rediscovering Joseph Smith’s ‘Discovery Narrative’ in Southern Utah (2011)

The Contested Meaning of Democracy in Early Mormonism and Methodism (2011)

‘The Great Spirit Has Told Us That You Are the Man’: American Indian Delegations to Joseph Smith at Nauvoo (2010)

Indian Israelites: American Indians in the Religious Vision of Joseph Smith (2010)

Instrumental Mysticism: The Inspired Fictionalization of the United Firm Revelations (2010)

The Record of Joseph as Oral Scripture (2010)

What Hath Oxford to Do With Salt Lake? (2010)

Adam, Abraham, and Joseph: The Egyptian Alphabet as a Source for the Book of Abraham (2009)

Sacred Sci-Fi: The Fiction of Orson Scott Card as Mormon Mythmaking (2009)

Sibling Rivalry: Why Mormons and Pentecostals Just Can’t Seem to Get Along (2009)

The Myth of the Missing Book of Abraham Papyrus (2009)

Indigenous Agency and the Emergence of Pentecostalism in India (2008)

Joseph Smith in Hermeneutical Crisis (2008)

The Iroquois as the Lamanite: An Argument for a Contemporary Reading of the Book of Mormon (2012)