Steven C. Harper

Steven C. Harper is a historian at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is part of a team of forty historians, editors, and web specialists creating historical publications for academic and popular audiences. Harper was previously a professor of Church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He has received the T. Edgar Lyon Award and the Juanita Brooks Award from the Mormon History Association, a Gest Fellowship from the Quaker Collection at Haverford College, the Lawrence Henry Gipson Fellowship from Lehigh University, and the Class of 1943 Endowed Young Scholar Award from Brigham Young University. He received his PhD in early American history in 2001 from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.