Grant Underwood

Grant Revon Underwood is a historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). He is also the author of The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism and the editor of Voyages of Faith: Explorations in Mormon Pacific History.

Background Underwood was born in Glendale, California and raised in Anaheim, California. He served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Argentina from 1973 to 1975.

Underwood and his wife, the former Sheree Jolley, are the parents of seven children. In the LDS Church he has served in several callings, including twice as a bishop.

Career Underwood received his B.A. in 1977 both in history, from BYU. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1988. His advisor was Daniel Walker Howe.

During his BYU graduate studies, Underwood worked as an LDS Seminary teacher at Thunderbird High School in Phoenix, Arizona from 1977 to 1981. While studying at UCLA, he taught at the LDS Institute of Religion in Los Angeles (1981–86), and later became Director of the Institute in Pomona, California (1986–92). In 2000 he joined the faculty of BYU in Provo, Utah as a professor of history and Research Historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History. In Hawaii, he was active in the Mormon Pacific Historical Society and served on its board of directors.

Having background in Hawaii and Pacific Mormon history, Underwood is a Tour Director for the Hawaiian excursion from the company LDS Travel Study. William Grover and Winnifred Foster Reese Award from the Mormon History Association in 1989 T. Edgar Lyon Best Article from the Mormon History Association in 1989 The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism Best Book Award from the Mormon History Association in 1993 Best Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Nominated for the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History Nominated for the Merle Curti Prize from the Organization of American Historians

Publications Underwood has also written several articles on a broad variety of topics related to the history of the LDS Church, especially related to the doctrinal views of the LDS Church and its members in the nineteenth century. He has also written Mormon history book reviews for academic journals.

The following is a list of some of Underwood's publications:

Books

Paperback edition issued in 1999.

Articles

Papers

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