Professional Service

• Mormon History Association. Role: Editorial Board. Journal of Mormon History. 12/03/2023 - present
• Brigham Young Racial Reconciliation Ministry. Advisory Board. 06/01/2023 - present
• University of Utah. Role: Member. Task Force for Repatriation and Data Stewardship. 03/2023 - present
• Journal of American Folklore. Manuscript Referee. 03/2023 - 04/2023
• Utah State University Arrington Lecture Board. Board Member. 11/2022 - present
• Oxford University Press. Book Manuscript Referee. 08/2022 - 08/2022
• History Department, University of Utah. Chair. 07/01/2022 - present
• Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University. Manuscript Referee. 03/2022 - 03/2022
• Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Manuscript Referee. 02/2022 - 02/2022
• Utah State Flag Redesign Commission. History Subcommittee; Design Review Subcommittee. 10/01/2021 - 01/11/2023
• Journal of Mormon History. Role: Manuscript Referee . Journal Article. 08/01/2021 - 08/31/2021
• Oxford University Press. Role: Manuscript Referee . Book Proposal. 07/01/2021 - 09/01/2021
• Mormon History Association. Role: Chair. Nominating Committee. 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2021
• Journal of Mormon History. Manuscript Referee. 11/2019 - 12/2019
• College of Humanities, University of Utah. Role: Director. Mormon Studies Initiative. 07/2019 - present
• Mormon History Association. Past President. 06/2019 - 06/2020
• Mormon Studies Review. Editorial Advisory Board, 2019. 01/2019 - 12/31/2021
• Sema Hadithi Foundation. Role: Supervisory Committee. Salt Lake County Community Remembrance Project. 01/01/2019 - present
• Mormon History Association. President. 06/2018 - 06/2019
• Oxford University Press. Book Manuscript Review. 01/2018 - 08/2018
• American Jewish History. Manuscript Review. 09/12/2017 - 10/19/2017
• Mormon History Association. President Elect. 06/2017 - 06/2018
• Journal of Religious History. Manuscript Review. 04/20/2017 - 05/08/2017
• Weber State University, History Department. External Review. 01/18/2017 - 02/20/2017
• BYU-Idaho, History Department. Role: Board Member. External Review Board. 12/09/2016 - 12/19/2016
• Journal of Mormon History. Manuscript Review. 05/2016 - 06/2016
• Open Theology. Manuscript Review. 03/2016 - 04/2016
• Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Manuscript Review. 02/2016 - 03/2016
• Oxford University Press. Book Proposal Review. 06/2015 - 06/2015
• Routledge Press. Book Proposal Review. 05/2015 - 05/2015
• University of Nebraska Press. Role: Peer Review. Book Manuscript. 07/2014 - 08/2014
• University of Illinois Press. Role: Peer Review. Book Manuscript Review. 05/2014 - 06/2014
• Mormon History Association. Role: Member. Program Committee. 09/2010 - 05/2011
• Southern Virginia University. Role: External Reviewer. External Review of History Major. 2009 - 2009
• Civil War History. External Manuscript Review. 2009 - 2009
• University of Utah Press. Faculty Advisory Council. 07/2008 - 07/2012
• Utah State University Press. External book manuscript review. 2008 - 2008
• Western Historical Quarterly. External Manuscript Review. 2008 - 2008
• Mormon History Association. Role: Liaison Committee Chair. Board of Directors. 05/2007 - 05/2010
• Mormon History Association. Program Committee. 2007 - 2008
• Utah Historical Quarterly. Board of Editors. 07/2006 - 07/2019
• Western History Association. Local Arrangements Committee. 2006 - 2008

Internal Service

• US and the World Search. Committee Chair, 12/2020 - 03/2021. Department service.
• Director of Graduate Studies. 07/01/2020 - 07/01/2021. Department service.
• Executive Committee. Member, 07/01/2020 - 07/01/2021. Department service.
• Mormon Studies Research Fellowship. Committee Chair, 07/2019 - present. College service.
• Mormon Studies Initiative, Committee Chair. 07/2019 - present. College service.
• RPT Committee Member. 07/2019 - 07/2021. College service.
• RPT Chair. 07/2019 - 07/2020. Department service.
• Graduate Committee. 07/2019 - 07/2020. Department service.
• Executive Committee. Member, 07/2018 - 07/2019. Department service.
• Strategic Planning Committee. 01/2016 - 07/2017. Department service.
• Tanner Humanities Center Review Committee. 01/2016 - 05/2016. College service.
• Roadmap Committee. 10/2015 - 02/2016. Department service.
• Director of Graduate Studies. Director, 07/2014 - 07/2017. Department service.
• Executive Committee. 07/2014 - 07/2017. Department service.
• Series Editor, Perspectives on the Mormon Experience, University of Utah Press. 07/2013 - 07/2019. University service.
• Teaching Committee. Chair, 07/01/2013 - 07/01/2014. Department service.
• Teaching Committee, 2012-2013. 07/2012 - 07/2013. Department service.
• Ramona W. Cannon Award Committee. Member, 05/2011 - 06/2016. College service.
• Religious Studies Steering Committee. Member, 05/2009 - 05/2019. University service.

Community Partnership

• People's of Utah, Steering Committee. 07/2021 - 07/2022
• Community Engaged Learning, Utah State Historical Society, Historical Markers Project. 11/15/2016 - present

Honors & Awards

• Best Book Award, Religion of a Different Color. Mormon History Association, 06/2016
• Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award, Religion of a Different Color. Utah State Historical Society, 09/2016
• Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, Religion of a Different Color. John Whitmer Historical Association, 09/2016
• Smith Pettit Best First Book Award, Making Space on the Western Frontier. Mormon History Association, 2008
• J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence, "Places That Can Be Easily Defended": A Case Study in the Economics of Abandonment during Utah's Black Hawk War. Mormon History Association, 2008
• Virgil Award. History Graduate Student Association, 04/2013
• Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities. College of Humanities, University of Utah, 04/2011
• Early Career Teaching Award. The Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence, University of Utah, 04/2011
• Faculty Fellowship. University of Utah, 03/2011
• Book of the Year, Let's Talk About Race and Priesthood. Brigham Young University, History Department, 11/02/2023
• Greg Kofford Best Historical Article for “’I Dug the Graves’: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 1 (2021): 29-67. John Whitmer Historical Association, 09/2022
• Ardis E. Parshall Best Public History Award, Mormon History Association, Century of Black Mormons. Mormon History Association, 06/2022
• Best Journal of Mormon History article for “‘I Dug the Graves’: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in two Latter Day Saint Traditions,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 1 (2021): 29-67. Mormon History Association, 06/2022
• Fellow of the Utah State Historical Society. Utah Division of State History, The Board of State History, 11/01/2021
• Faculty Fellowship. University of Utah, 08/01/2021
• Elijah Able Service Award, Century of Black Mormons,. Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage, 05/2021
• James Clayton Fellowship, History Department, University of Utah, 2018-2020. 07/2019
• James Clayton Fellowship, History Department, University of Utah, 2018-2020. History Department, University of Utah, 07/2018
• University Teacher of the Year. Utah Council For the Social Studies, 10/15/2016

In the Media

• Jamie McGriff, “Utah Professor explains spectrum of slavery in the United States,” KUTV. 02/16/2024. https://kutv.com/news/belonging-in-utah/utah-profe...
• Jamie McGriff, “U of U history professor discovers documents on early pioneers debate on slavery,” KUTV. 02/09/2024. https://kutv.com/news/local/u-of-u-history-profess...
• Giovanni Radtke, “Marriott Library’s New Database Gives Fresh Insight into Slavery in Utah,” The Daily Utah Chronicle. 12/31/2023. https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/12/31/marriott...
• Daniel Woodruff, “Elder Patrick Kearon called as new Latter-day Saint apostle,” KUTV. 12/08/2023. https://kutv.com/news/local/elder-patrick-kearon-n...
• Tamarra Kemsley, “‘A burst of new information’: Database reveals new truths about slavery and race in early Utah,” Salt Lake Tribune. 12/01/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/12/01/new-web...
• Daniel Woodruff, “What’s next after ‘Significant Leadership Loss’ with President Ballard’s Passing,” KUTV. 11/13/2023. https://kutv.com/news/local/president-m-russell-ba...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “30 years after the ‘September Six’ purge, would the LDS Church do it again?” Salt Lake Tribune. 09/03/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/09/03/30-year...
• Jamie McGriff, “U of U professor explains racial struggle of prominent Black pioneer,” KUTV. 06/16/2023. https://kutv.com/news/belonging-in-utah/u-of-u-pro...
• Jana Riess, “Mormons know how the Church sanctioned racial exclusion. That policy has a paper trail.” Religion News Service. 03/10/2023. https://religionnews.com/2023/03/10/mormons-know-h...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack and David Noyce, “‘Worst speech’ in LDS history: Brigham’s screed against a ‘cursed Black race,” Salt Lake Tribune. 03/05/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/03/05/worst-s...
• “Mormon Land: Black priesthood ban didn’t come from God or Joseph Smith,” Salt Lake Tribune. 03/01/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/03/01/mormon-...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Black Latter-day Saints express their faith and their wrestles with racism in the church,” Salt Lake Tribune. 01/03/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/01/03/black-l...
• Lincoln Graves, “‘Mormon Studies’ professors weigh in on Brad Wilcox remarks,” KUTV. 02/10/2022. https://kutv.com/news/local/brad-wilcox-byu-profes...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack and Tamarra Kemsley, “LDS leader Brad Wilcox apologizes for remarks about Black members; BYU’ deeply concerned’” Salt Lake Tribune. 02/08/2022. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2022/02/08/lds-lea...
• Katie Workman, “Harvard Scholar is Sharing Haitian Latter-day Saint History,” KSL.com. 07/04/2021. https://www.ksl.com/article/50183095/harvard-schol...
• Emma Penrod, “Lake Powell pipeline plans to tap water promised to the Utes. Why the tribe sees it as yet another racially based scheme.” Salt Lake Tribune. 06/13/2021. https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/06/13...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Filmmaker seeks monuments at Temple Square and This Is the Place honoring early Black Latter-day Saints,” Salt Lake Tribune. 05/14/2021. https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/06/13...
• Lee Benson, “A Historian of Utah, Latter-day Saints and the American West who knows his Roots,” Deseret News, 2 January 2021. 01/02/2021. https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/2/20995540/mor...
• Brady McCombs, “Mormons Add Call to Eradicate Prejudice, Racism to Handbook,” Associated Press, 18 December 2020. 12/18/2020. https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-12-18...
• Drew Crawford, “Black Lives and the Stories Behind those Lives Matter,” City Journals, 22 June 2020. 06/22/2020. https://www.valleyjournals.com/2020/06/22/318951/b...
• Lisa Merkley, “Racism continues to surface in the Church and at BYU,” Daily Universe, 3 June 2020. 06/03/2020. https://universe.byu.edu/2020/06/03/lisis-384-fina...
• Brady McCombs, “Mexican Killings Spotlight the twists and turns in the History of Mormon Polygamy,” Associated Press. 11/07/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/11/07/mexican...
• “LeBaron family, which lost relatives in Mexico attack, has had "run-ins" with cartels” CBS This Morning. 11/06/2019. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lebaron-family-tied-t...
• Alessandra Correa, “Massacre abala comunidad Mormon que Imigrou para o Mexico no seculo 19,” BBC News, Brasil. 11/06/2019. https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/geral-50314220
• Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle, “9 U.S. Citizens, Including 6 Children, Were Killed in an Ambush in Mexico. Here’s What we Know So Far,” Time Magazine. 11/06/2019. https://time.com/5718325/nine-united-states-citize...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Book ‘stole’ Mormon historian’s work, but publisher offers a settlement to ‘make it right’, Salt Lake Tribune. 08/23/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/08/24/book-st...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Pioneer benefactor’s ties to slavery raise questions for BYU, where a building bears his name,” Salt Lake Tribune. 08/09/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2019/08/09/p...
• Michelle Quist, “Don’t Lose Sympathy for the other Pioneers,” Salt Lake Tribune. 07/24/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/07/...
• Necia P. Seamons, “Teachers across the nation come to learn history,” The Preston Citizen (Preston, Idaho). 07/17/2019. https://www.hjnews.com/preston/teachers-across-the...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “How the wife of Mormonism’s most famous black man played a part in the priesthood-temple ban that would last a century,” Salt Lake Tribune. 05/06/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/05/06/how-wif...
• “A new discovery sheds light on early black converts and the subsequent priesthood ban” | Episode 71, MormonLand Podcast, Salt Lake Tribune. 03/06/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/podcasts/mormonland/
• “Who actually banned black Mormons from the priesthood?” | Episode 36, MormonLand Podcast, Salt Lake Tribune. 06/06/2018. https://www.sltrib.com/podcasts/mormonland/
• Brady McCombs, “NAACP and Mormons call for Racial Harmony, Civility,” Associated Press, 17 May 2018. 05/17/2018. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/utah/artic...
• Harry Bruinius, “Why more Americans are weighing personal conscience and Religious Liberty,” Christian Science Monitor. 05/08/2017. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0508/Wh...
• Susan Hogan, “‘We Have to take a Stand’: Mormon History Scholars File Brief against Trump Travel Ban,” Washington Post. 04/27/2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp...
• Hunter Schwarz, “Mormon History Scholars File Court Brief over Trump Travel Ban,” CNN. 04/26/2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/politics/mormon-scho...
• Tom Williams, “Suspending Refugees,” Utah Public Radio, Access Utah. 02/01/2017. http://upr.org/post/suspending-refugees-wednesdays...
• The Doug Wright Show, KSL News Radio, “Utah Reacts to Immigration Ban—Comparing Muslim Ban to Mormon Ban.”. 01/30/2017. https://www.ksl.com/?nid=1388&a=7651&showid=2016&n...
• Heidi Hatch, “Why MoTab will Sing for Trump’s Inauguration, Why Some Say it Shouldn’t” KUTV News. 12/22/2016. http://kutv.com/news/local/why-motab-will-sing-for...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “New Scholarship Coming to Mormon Lessons, but will Instructors Really Teach It? Salt Lake Tribune. 12/01/2016. http://www.sltrib.com/lifestyle/faith/4654869-155/...
• Jessica Mendoza, “Why Utah Alone is Seriously Considering a Third Choice,” Christian Science Monitor. 11/02/2016. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/1102/Wh...
• W. Paul Reeve, “My View: Black Lives Matter. Mormon Lives Matter,” Deseret News. 09/25/2016. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865663240/My-vi...
• Tom Williams, “Paul Reeve and Religion of a Different Color on Tuesday’s Access Utah” Access Utah. 09/06/2016. http://upr.org/post/paul-reeve-and-religion-differ...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Mormonism? The questions are there—and so, argues new book, are the answers,” Salt Lake Tribune. 05/17/2016. http://www.sltrib.com/home/3901745-155/mormonism-t...
• Jack Jenkins, “What a 19th-Century Campaign to Declare Mormons ‘Non-White’ Tells us about Modern Islamaphobia,” ThinkProgress. 02/12/2016. http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/02/12/374894...
• Eileen Hallet Stone, “Living History: ‘Old Man Booze’ hard to kill in Prohibition era Utah,” Salt Lake Tribune. 01/29/2016. http://www.sltrib.com/news/3476618-155/living-hist...
• Jennifer Napier-Pearce, “Trib Talk: Mormons and Government Conflict.". 01/05/2016. http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/tribtalk/3378205-155/t...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “Mormon Leaders to Oregon Militia: Your Religion isn’t with you,” Salt Lake Tribune. 01/04/2016. http://www.sltrib.com/news/lds/3377742-155/mormon-...
• Peggy Fletcher Stack, “New Mormon Policy on Gay Couples ‘Analogous’ to its Polygamy Stance? Yes and No,” Salt Lake Tribune. 12/05/2015. http://www.sltrib.com/home/3266412-155/new-mormon-...
• Mark Saal, “What does the seer stone mean for Mormons and ex-Mormons?” Ogden Standard Examiner, 6 August 2015. 08/06/2015. http://www.standard.net/Faith/2015/08/06/What-does...
• Doug Fabrizio, Radio West, “Utah’s ‘Dixie.’” . 07/16/2015. http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/utahs-dixie
• W. Paul Reeve, “Are There Black Mormons?” Huffington Post, 15 July 2015. 07/15/2015. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/w-paul-reeve/are-the...
• Deborah Potter, “Former Mormons” PBS, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, 26 June 2015. 06/26/2015. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2015/06/...
• “Author Meets Roundtable: Paul Reeve Responds,” Juvenile Instructor. 06/17/2015. http://juvenileinstructor.org/author-meets-roundta...
• Doug Fabrizio, Radio West, “The Mormon Struggle for Whiteness.". 06/08/2015. http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/mormon-struggle-whi...
• KUTV: "LDS Church Releases Sensitive Documents to Address Information Age Findings". 12/13/2013. http://www.kutv.com/template/cgi-bin/archived.pl?t...
• Deseret News: "Zion National Park to hold lecture on death". 03/26/2013. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865576734/Zion-...