Steven L. Olsen
Steven L. Olsen received a bachelor’s from BYU and a master’s degree and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is Senior Curator of the LDS Church History Department, where he has worked his entire career creating museum exhibits, restoring historic sites, and leading initiatives. He has been president or board member of a variety of state, regional, and national professional service organizations. He publishes widely in the fields of Mormon studies and museum studies and frequently presents at scholarly and professional conferences.
BYU Studies Publications
- Birth and Calling of the Prophet Samuel: A Literary Reading of the Biblical Text
- Building Zion [55:2]: The Material World of Mormon Settlement
- Celebrating Cultural Identity: Pioneer Day in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
- From Darkness unto Light: Joseph Smith’s Translation and Publication of the Book of Mormon
- Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Satanic Opposition: Atonement, Evil, and the Mormon Vision
- Liberty Jail: Seedbed for Eternal Temple Blessings
- Roots of Modern Mormonism
- The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays
- Two books on communal societies