W. Paul Reeve

W. Paul Reeve (born July 27, 1968) is an American historian and Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies and History in the History Department at the University of Utah. He became chair of the History Department on 1 July 2022.[1][2]

Reeve is an influential scholar of Mormon race history and Utah history.[3][4][5]

Reeve was born in Hurricane, Utah. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah, where he studied with Dean L. May. Prior to teaching at the University of Utah, Reeve taught at Southern Virginia University and Salt Lake Community College.[6]

Reeve oversees the digital project Century of Black Mormons, which identifies Black Mormons across the United States and internationally who were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ between 1830 and 1930.[7][8]

Reeve has been the recipient of the University of Utah's Early Career Teaching Award,[9] and the College of Humanities' Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.[6] In 2016, the Utah Council for Social Studies named him University Teacher of the Year.[2]

His book Religion of a Different Color was the winner of the Mormon History Association's Best Book Award, the John Whitmer Historical Association's Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, and the Utah State Historical Society's Francis Armstrong Madsen Best History Book Award.[6][4]

  1. ^ "W. Paul Reeve - Home - Faculty Profile". The University of Utah.
  2. ^ a b "Paul Reeve - History Department - The University of Utah". history.utah.edu. Retrieved October 29, 2023.
  3. ^ "The Wrong Side of White by W. Paul Reeve". The University of Chicago Divinity School.
  4. ^ a b "The University of Utah's first Mormon Studies professor is a historian researching early black converts". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  5. ^ "From not white enough to too white, conference discusses Mormons and diversity".
  6. ^ a b c "A historian of Utah, Latter-day Saints and the American West who knows his roots". Deseret News. January 3, 2021.
  7. ^ "Century of Black Mormons". J. Willard Marriott Library Exhibits.
  8. ^ "W. Paul Reeve, "Century of Black Mormons"". CCE. February 1, 2022.
  9. ^ "W. Paul Reeve". Religious Studies Center.