Janiece Johnson

Janiece Johnson is a transplanted Bay Area, California, native who loves history, design, art, good food, and traveling. She has master’s degrees in American history and theology from Brigham Young University and Vanderbilt’s Divinity School, respectively. After working as a historian in the LDS Church History Department for several years, she returned to school to complete doctoral work at the University of Leicester in England. Janiece has published work in women’s and religious history—specializing in Mormon history and the Mountain Meadows Massacre. She is currently the Laura F. Willes Faculty Research Associate at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University.