W. Paul Reeve

W. Paul Reeve is the Simmons Chair of Mormon Studies in the History Department at the University of Utah where he teaches courses on Utah history, Mormon history, and the history of the U.S. West. His award winning book, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He is the recipient of the Utah Council for the Social Studies’ University Teacher of the Year award, the University of Utah’s Early Career Teaching Award, and the College of Humanities’ Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. He is Project Manager and General Editor of a digital database, Century of Black Mormons, designed to identify all known Black Latter-day Saints baptized into the faith between 1830 and 1930, including those who were enslaved at the time of baptism. The database is now live at CenturyofBlackMormons.org.