Spencer Fluhman was executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU). He graduated summa cum laude from BYU and received masters and doctoral degrees in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Journal of Religion and Society, Journal of Mormon History, BYU Studies Quarterly, and Mormon Historical Studies. He won the T. Edgar Lyon Award for Best Article of the Year from the Mormon History Association in 2009. His book, “A Peculiar People”: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) won the Mormon History Association’s Best First Book Award in 2013. He has held office in the American Academy of Religion, American Society of Church History, and Mormon History Association. He served as editor-in-chief of Mormon Studies Review from 2013-19. He was visiting professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University in 2015 and visiting distinguished professor of Mormon Studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara in 2020.
