Scott D. Marianno

Scott D. Marianno is a historian and writer for the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He received an MA in history from Utah State University in 2015 and a BA in history from Brigham Young University in 2011. He writes on race and religion in the American West and on twentieth-century Mormonism.

BYU Studies Publications

"The Little Head Stones Became Monuments": Death in the Early Samoan Mission and the Creation of the Fagali’i Cemetery
“Fearless in the Cause of Truth”: The Journals of Heber J. Grant(2025)
True and Faithful: Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian