Reid L. Neilson
Reid L. Neilson is the Assistant Church Historian and Recorder and Managing Director of the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Neilson received a bachelor’s (international relations) and two master’s degrees (business management and American history) from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Religious Studies (American religions) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later completed the Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. He is the author and editor of more than two dozen books on Mormon history.
BYU Studies Publications
- "The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death in the Early Samoan Mission and the Creation of the Fagali’i Cemetery
- “The Youth of Zion,” “A Word for the Wayward,” and “A Precious Promise”: Elder Orson F. Whitney’s April 1929 General Conference Sermon on Righteous Parents, Wayward Children, and Priesthood Sealings(2025)
- A Mormon and a Buddhist Debate Plural Marriage: The Letters of Elder Alma O. Taylor and the Reverend Nishijima Kakuryo, 1901
- Alma O. Taylor’s Fact-Finding Mission to China
- Oliver Cowdery: Scribe, Elder, Witness
- Pilgrimage to Palmyra: President B. H. Roberts and the Eastern States Mission’s 1923 Commemoration of Cumorah
- Proselyting on the Rock of Gibraltar, 1853–1855: The Letters of Edward Stevenson to the Juvenile Instructor in 1885
- True and Faithful: Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian