W. Paul Reeve

W. Paul Reeve (born July 27, 1968) is an American historian and Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies and History in the History Department at the University of Utah.[1]

Reeve is a noted scholar of Mormon race history and Utah history.[2][3][4]

Reeve was born in Hurricane, Utah. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in history from University of Utah, where he studied with Dean L. May. Prior to teaching at University of Utah, Reeve taught at Southern Virginia University and Salt Lake Community College.[5]

Reeve oversees the digital project Century of Black Mormons, which identifies Black Mormons across the United States baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ between 1830 and 1930.[6][7]

Reeve has been the recipient of the University of Utah's Early Career Teaching Award,[8] and the College of Humanities' Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.[5]

His book Religion of a Different Color was the winner of the Mormon History Association's Best Book Award, the John Whitmer Historical Association's Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, and the Utah State Historical Society's Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award.[5][3]

Bibliography
  • Reeve, W. Paul (2006). Making Space On the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09226-8. OCLC 811409102.[9]
  • Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia. W. Paul Reeve, Ardis E. Parshall. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. 2010. ISBN 978-1-59884-108-4. OCLC 699490059.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Reeve, W. Paul Reeve; Van Wagenen, Michael (2011). Between Pulpit and Pew: The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore. Logan: Utah State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87421-823-7. OCLC 741614045.
  • Reeve, W. Paul (July 10, 2015). "Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754076.001.0001/acprof-9780199754076 – via University Press Scholarship.[10]

References
  1. "W. Paul Reeve - Home - Faculty Profile". The University of Utah.
  2. "The Wrong Side of White by W. Paul Reeve". The University of Chicago Divinity School.
  3. "The University of Utah's first Mormon Studies professor is a historian researching early black converts". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  4. "From not white enough to too white, conference discusses Mormons and diversity".
  5. "A historian of Utah, Latter-day Saints and the American West who knows his roots". Deseret News. January 3, 2021.
  6. "Century of Black Mormons". J. Willard Marriott Library Exhibits.
  7. "W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons"". CCE. February 1, 2022.
  8. "W. Paul Reeve". Religious Studies Center.
  9. Reeve, W. Paul (2006). Making Space On the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-09226-8. OCLC 811409102.
  10. Reeve, W. Paul (July 10, 2015). "Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199754076.001.0001/acprof-9780199754076 – via University Press Scholarship.
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