Mark Lyman Staker (Ph.D., Cultural anthropology, University of Florida) began work as curator of the Museum of Church History and Art in Salt Lake City in 1993. For more than twelve years Mark has been involved in historic sites restoration and nineteenth-century expressions of the Latter-day Saint experience.

Mark is the author of the award-winning Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations.