Presentation of 2020 Awards

Benjamin Park received my PhD in history from the University of Cambridge and currently teach American religious history at Sam Houston State University. His first book, American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018 and was a finalist for the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize in Political History. His academic articles have appeared in over a dozen scholarly journals, including Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of the Early Republic, Church History, Early American Studies, Journal of American Studies, and Journal of Mormon History. He currently editing a textbook, A Companion to American Religious History, which will appear with Wiley-Blackwell in December 2020, and serves as co-editor of the academic journal Mormon Studies Review. His most recent book, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier, was published by W.W. Norton/Liveright in February, and has been featured in Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker. He is currently working on a general survey of Mormonism in America, to be published by Norton.