Fred E. Woods

Fred E. Woods is a professor in the department of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University. He formerly held a Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding (2005–2010) and continues to seek ways of building bridges with other faith traditions. He is the creator of the Mormon migration website at http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/. Professor Woods has authored or coauthored a number of works dealing with Mormon history in the Pacific, including “The Palawai Pioneers on the Island of Lanai: The First Hawaiian Latter-day Saint Gathering Place (1854–1864),” Mormon Historical Studies 5 (Fall 2004): 3–35; “An Islander’s View of a Desert Kingdom: Jonathan Napela Recounts his 1869 Visit to Salt Lake City,” BYU Studies 45, no. 1 (2006): 23–34; “Making Friends Down Under: The Beginnings of LDS Missionary Work on Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia, 1961,” Mormon Historical Studies 11 (Spring 2011): 47–65; with Riley M. Moffat and Jeffrey N. Walker, Gathering to La‘ie (Laie, Hawaii: The Jonathan Napela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies, BYU–Hawaii, 2011); “Launching Mormonism in the South Pacific: The Voyage of the Timoleon,” in Go Ye Into All the World, ed. Reid L. Neilson and Fred E. Woods (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, BYU; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2012), 191–216, and has recently completed a forthcoming book dealing with Australian Mormons who were shipwrecked in the Pacific: Divine Providence: The Wreck and Rescue of the Julia Ann (Spring 2014).