Benjamin E. Park

Benjamin E. Park received his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge and is a scholar of American religion, culture, and politics. He is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University and co-editor of the Mormon Studies Review. He is the author of American Nationalisms (University of Cambridge Press, 2018) and Kingdom of Nauvoo (Liveright, 2020), and the editor of A Companion to American Religious History (Blackwell, 2021) and DNA Mormon (Signature, 2022). His public writing has appeared in Washington Post, Newsweek, Salt Lake Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Dallas Morning News, Salon, and Talking Points Memo. His latest book, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism, will appear in January 2024.