Reid L. Neilson

The author and award-winning editor of more than thirty books, Reid L. Neilson worked as the managing director of the Church History Department from 2010 to 2019 and was appointed Assistant Church Historian and Recorder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2015. He joined the faculty of Brigham Young University in 2022, where he currently oversees the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, the Religious Studies Center, and BYU Studies. He and his wife, Shelly, have five children and live in Bountiful, Utah.

Reid is the editor of Elias—An Epic of the Ages: A Critical Edition, a co-editor of The Annals of the Southern Mission:  A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, and contributed a chapter to Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century.