Mark Lyman Staker

Mark L. Staker received his PhD at the University of Florida and is a master curator in the Historic Sites Division of the LDS Church History Department. Mark is the author of the award-winning book Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations and has published extensively on early Latter-day Saint history. He is the author of several articles in BYU Studies, including “Thou Art the Man: Newel K. Whitney in Ohio,” vol. 42, no. 1 (2003): 74–138; and, with Robin S. Jensen, “David Hale’s Store Ledger: New Details about Joseph and Emma Smith, the Hale Family, and the Book of Mormon,” vol. 53, no. 3 (2014): 77–112.