Christopher Cannon Jones has served as editor of the journal of Mormon History since 2023. he is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, where he reaches courses in early American history, religion in American history, slavery and the slave trade, and family history. With David Golding, he is the co-author of Missionary interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cornell University Press, 2024), as well as the author of several articles.