Reid Larkin Neilson

Reid Larkin Neilson has served as the managing director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 2010. On January 23, 2015, he became an Assistant Church Historian and Recorder, still retaining his duties as managing director.[1]

After graduating from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in international relations, he worked for Arthur Andersen and The Walt Disney Company's Strategic Planning Division in Tokyo, where he had served years previously as a Mormon missionary in Japan.[2] He returned to BYU for master's degrees in American history and business administration, which he received in 2001 and 2002, and he completed a PhD in American religious history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. He also completed Harvard Business School's General Management Program. Before starting to work for the Church History Department in 2009, he taught Church history and doctrine at BYU.[3]

Publications

Neilson has written and edited more than twenty books.[4] Some of his frequent topics are the travels of Mormon figures, such as Andrew Jenson[5] and David O. McKay.[6] Many of his books have been published by major university presses.

  • Peter Neilson Sr.: A Consecrated Life. Community Press, 1997.
  • From the Green Hills of England to the Red Hills of Dixie: The Story of William and Rachel Thompson Atkin. Red Rock Publishing, 2000.
  • The Japanese Missionary Journals of Elder Alma O. Taylor, 1901–10. BYU Studies, 2001. ISBN 978-0842524957
  • Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays. Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-231-13006-6
  • The Rise of Mormonism. Columbia University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0231136341
  • Taking the Gospel to the Japanese, 1901–2001. Brigham Young University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-8425-2595-4
  • The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years. University of Illinois Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0252072888
  • Reflections of a Mormon Historian: Leonard J. Arrington on the New Mormon History. Arthur H. Clark Company at the University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. ISBN 9780870623486
  • Global Mormonism in the Twenty-First Century. Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University, 2008. ISBN 978-0842526968
  • Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History: The Pacific Isles. Religious Studies Center, 2008. ISBN 978-0615200378
  • Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier. University of Utah Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0874809183
  • Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0195369762
  • Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901–1924. University of Utah Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0874809893
  • To the Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O. McKay, 1920–1921. University of Utah Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1607810100
  • Exhibiting Mormonism: The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0195384031
  • In the Whirlpool: The Pre-Manifesto Letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885–1890. Arthur H. Clark Company, 2011. ISBN 978-0870623905
  • Tales from the World Tour: The 1895–1897 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Religious Studies Center, 2012. ISBN 978-0842528207
  • Go Ye Into All the World: The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work. Religious Studies Center, 2012. ISBN 978-0842528214
  • Religion, Food, and Eating in North America. Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0231160315
  • Exploring Book of Mormon Lands: The 1923 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson. Religious Studies Center, 2014. ISBN 978-0842528511
  • A Zion Canyon Reader. University of Utah Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1607813477
  • The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States. Columbia University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0231149426
  • Conversations with Mormon Historians. Religious Studies Center, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8425-2890-0
  • Rediscovering the Sites of the Restoration: The 1888 Travel Writings of Mormon Historian Andrew Jenson, Edward Stevenson, and Joseph S. Black. Religious Studies Center, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8425-2960-0
  • From the Outside Looking In: Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780190244668

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reid L. Neilson Named Assistant Church Historian and Recorder", Newsroom (LDS Church), 2015-01-23
  2. ↑ Neilson, Reid L., Religious Studies Center, http://rsc.byu.edu/authors/neilson-reid-l.
  3. ↑ Reid L. Neilson, Project Team, Joseph Smith Papers, http://josephsmithpapers.org/projectTeam#reidNeilson.
  4. ↑ Published books by Reid L. Neilson, http://www.reidneilson.com/books.htm.
  5. ↑ Howard, Rosemarie. "Book Review: 'Tales from the World Tour' is historical treasure." Deseret News, January 5, 2013. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865569972/Book-review-Tales-from-the-World-Tour-is-historical-treasure.html?pg=all.
  6. ↑ Johnson, Emma. "New book details David O. McKay's missionary journey." Daily Universe, January 22, 2012. http://universe.byu.edu/2012/01/22/david-o-mckay-and-the-peripheries-of-mormondom/.

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