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Mark Alan Wright

Mark Alan Wright earned his BA in anthropology at UCLA and his MA and PhD in anthropology (with a subfield of specialization in Mesoamerican archaeology) from UC Riverside. He has conducted research in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. Dr. Wright was an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and a past associate editor of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.