CURRICULUM VITAE

Andrew H. Hedges January 1, 2019

EDUCATION

Ph. D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

M.A., , 1991

B.S., Weber State College, 1986

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1 July 2016—Present Associate Chair, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

5 September 2017—Present Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

1 July 2013—4 September 2017 Associate Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

4 September 2012—28 June 2013 Managing Historian, Papers, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, , .

May 2010—28 June 2013 Historian/Writer, Joseph Smith Papers, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.

September 2002—May, 2010 Associate Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

August 1996–September 2002 Assistant Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

August 1995-August 1996 Visiting Professor, Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University

June—July 1995 Instructor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

PUBLICATIONS

Books: Edited Documents (4)

Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, Brent M. Rogers, ed., The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 3: May 1843-June 1844. Vol. 3 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin and Matthew J. Grow (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2015).

Andrew H. Hedges, Research and Review Editor for Gerrit J. Dirkmaat et al., The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 3, 1833-1834. Vol. 3 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin and Matthew C. Grow, (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2014).

Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, Richard Lloyd Anderson, ed., The Joseph Smith Papers, Journals, Volume 2: December 1841-April 1843. Vol. 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian’s Press, 2011).

Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, ed., Within These Prison Walls: Lorenzo Snow’s Record Book, 1886-1897 (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University and Deseret Book, 2010).

Books: Authored (2)

Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Through the Lens: The Original 1907 Church History Photographs of George Edward Anderson (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2010).

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Alexander L. Baugh, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, On This Day in the Church: An Illustrated Almanac of the Latter-day Saints (Salt Lake City: Eagle Gate, 2000).

Books: Edited Collections of Articles (10)

Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2015.)

Dennis L. Largey, Andrew H. Hedges, John Hilton III, Kerry Hull, ed., The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder. The 44th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2015).

Andrew H. Hedges, J. Spencer Fluhman, Alonzo L Gaskill, ed., The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context. The 37rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2008).

W. Jeffrey Marsh, Susan Easton Black, Steven C. Harper, Andrew H. Hedges, Cynthia Doxey, Lloyd Newell, Mary Jane Woodger, ed., Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration: The 34rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2005).

Fred E. Woods, Andrew H. Hedges, Steven C. Harper, ed., Prelude to the Restoration: From Apostasy to the Restored Church. The 33rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004).

Alexander L. Baugh and Andrew H. Hedges, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–New York and Pennsylvania (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002).

Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000).

Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., The Disciple as Scholar: Essays on Scripture and the Ancient World in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000).

Dennis A. Wright, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, Matthew O. Richardson, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–Western Canada (Provo: Department of Church History and Doctrine, 2000).

David F. Boone, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–California (Provo: Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1998).

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters (26)

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘A Forbearance of Restraint:’ American Wildlife and the Word of Wisdom, 1560-1833,” Mormon Historical Studies 19/2 (Fall 2018): 1-39.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee,” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 18/1 (January 2017): 89- 111.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Thomas Ford and Joseph Smith,” Journal of Mormon History 42/4 (October 2016): 97-124.

Andrew H. Hedges, “News from Salt Lake, 1847-1849,” Utah Historical Quarterly 84/3 (Summer 2016): 216-235.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Extradition, the Mormons, and the Election of 1843,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 109/2 (Summer 2016): 127-147.

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘They Pursue Me without Cause:’ Joseph Smith in Hiding and D&C 127, 128,” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 16/1 (2015): 43-59.

Andrew H. Hedges and Alex D. Smith, “Joseph Smith, John C. Bennett, and the Extradition Attempt, 1842,” Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Kent P. Jackson, ed., Joseph Smith: The Prophet and Seer (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2010), 437-465.

Andrew H. Hedges, “ and the Limited Mesoamerican Theory,” Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 10/2, (2009), 111-134.

Andrew H. Hedges and Alex D. Smith, “The Lady and the Governor: Emma Hale Smith’s and Thomas Carlin’s 1842 Correspondence,” Mormon Historical Studies 9/2 (2008), 139-152.

Andrew H. Hedges, “The Narrow Neck of Land,” The Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel 9/3 (2008), 150-60.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Book of Mormon Geography in the World of Joseph Smith,” Mormon Historical Studies 8/1 and 2, (2007), 77-89.

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘Compassion upon the Earth:’ Man, Prophets, and Nature,” George B. Handley, Terry B. Ball, Steven L. Peck, ed., Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2006), 81-88.

Andrew H. Hedges, “A Wanderer in a Strange Land: Abraham in America, 1800-1850,” John Gee and Brian Hauglid, ed., Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2005), 175-87.

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘The Light Shall Begin to Break Forth’: Protestant Missions to the Indians in Colonial America,” Fred E. Woods, Steven C. Harper, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., Prelude to the Restoration: From Apostasy to the Restored Church. The 33rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City and Provo: Deseret Book and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2004), 99-114.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Setting the Stage: John Eliot and the Algonquins of Eastern Massachusetts, 1649-90,” Donald Q. Cannon, Arnold K. Garr, Bruce A. Van Orden, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saints Church History–The New England States (Provo: Religious Studies Center, 2004), 65-86.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Lucy Smith’s History and Abner Cole’s Piracy of Extracts from the Book of Mormon,” Alexander L. Baugh, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–New York and Pennsylvania (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2002), 49-67.

Andrew H. Hedges, “The Refractory Abner Cole,” Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, Stephen D. Ricks, ed., Revelation, Reason, and Faith: Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002), 447- 75.

Andrew H. Hedges, “When Men and Mountains Meet: Pioneer Life in Utah’s Ogden Valley,” Mormon Historical Studies 2, no.2 (Fall, 2001), 115-134.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Pleasing the Eye and Gladdening the Heart: Joseph Smith and Life’s Little Pleasures,” Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000), 257-273.

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘I wondered if I could feel at home’: Southern Alberta Through the Eyes of Its Early Saints, 1883-1910,” Dennis A. Wright, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, Matthew O. Richardson, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–Western Canada (Provo: Department of Church History and Doctrine, 2000), 75-97.

Andrew H. Hedges and Jay G. Burrup, “Shaping the Stones: Lorenzo Snow’s Letters to Priesthood Leaders of the London Conference, November 1842,” BYU Studies (38/4, 1999), 6-25.

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘All My Endeavors to Preserve Them’: Protecting the Plates in Palmyra, 22 September-December 1827,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (8/2, 1999), 15-23.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Battle of the Homefront: The Early Pioneer Art of Homemaking,” Ronald W. Walker and Doris R. Dant, ed., Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah’s Mormon Pioneers (Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1999), 119- 136.

Andrew H. Hedges, “John’s Revelation and the Restoration of the Gospel,” Daniel K. Judd, Craig J. Ostler, Richard D. Draper, ed., The Testimony of John the Beloved: The 27th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 83-93.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Isaiah in America, 1700-1830,” Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch, ed., Isaiah in the Book of Mormon (Provo: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 391-405.

Andrew H. Hedges, “First Impressions: California Through the Eyes of Its Early Saints, 1846-1857,” David F. Boone, Robert C. Freeman, Andrew H. Hedges, Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, ed., Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History–California (Provo: Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1998), 1-20.

Peer-reviewed Encyclopedia Articles (7)

These seven peer-reviewed articles, ranging in length from 80 to 900 words, appear in Dennis L. Largey, ed., Book of Mormon Reference Companion (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003). Topics addressed include:

Dissenters; Mother Gentiles; Judges; Canonization of the Book of Mormon; Promised Land; Urim and Thummin; Kings

Editor-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters (7)

Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Andrew H. Hedges, and Thomas A. Wayment, “The Brigham Young Papers,” BYU Religious Education Review (Fall 2018): 16-21.

Rachel Cope, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Andrew H. Hedges, and Thomas A. Wayment. “Discussing Difficult Topics: Plural Marriage.” Religious Educator 17, no. 1 (2016): 11– 21.

Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Alexander L. Baugh, Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, Andrew H. Hedges, "The Doctrine and Covenants: A Roundtable Discussion," in Religious Educator 11, no. 2 (2010): 203-215.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Problems with Probability: A Response,” The Religious Educator: Perspectives of the Restored Gospel (10/2, 2009), 159-162.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Mobocracy in Jackson County,” Susan Easton Black and Andrew C Skinner, ed., Joseph: Exploring the Life and Ministry of the Prophet (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Book, 2005), 207-217.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Take Heed Continually: Protecting the Gold Plates,” Ensign, January 2001, 37-43.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Introduction,” Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Andrew H. Hedges, ed., The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson (Provo: The Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000), ix-xviii.

Editor-reviewed Encyclopedia Articles (30)

These 30 peer-reviewed articles, ranging in length from 100 to 1100 words, appear in Arnold K. Garr, Donald Q. Cannon, Richard O. Cowan, eds., Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000). People and topics addressed in the articles include the following:

James Allen Hubert Howe Bancroft Bangladesh John F. Boynton Henry Clay Compromise of 1850 Abner Cole Philo Dibble Thomas Ford Phillip St. George Cooke Elijah Fordham Gold Plates Great Awakening Free People of Color Great Basin Isaac Hale Jacob Hamblin Doctor Philastus Hurlbut Ann Lee James J. Strang Addison Pratt Messenger and Advocate Public Works Solomon Mack Alvin Smith Missouri Compromise Sylvester Smith Universalists Western Reserve Twin Relics of Barbarism

Book Reviews (3)

Andrew H. Hedges and Dawson W. Hedges, “No, Dan, That’s Still Not History,” The FARMS Review (17/1, 2005), 205-222.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Review of S. George Ellsworth, ed., The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: Being the Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer,” BYU Studies (38/4, 1999), 196-198.

Andrew H. Hedges, “Review of Ethan Smith, View of the Hebrews,” FARMS Review of Books (9/1, 1997), 63-68.

Newspaper articles (1)

Andrew H. Hedges, “‘Journals, Vol. 3’ includes Joseph Smith’s last sermons,” Deseret News, December 3, 2015, C3.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND LECTURES (17)

“Joseph Smith’s Nauvoo Journals,” paper delivered at the 2018 Mormon Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 8, 2018, Boise, Idaho.

“Practice in the Papers: News from Utah, 1847-1849,” paper delivered at the 2016 Mormon Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 11, 2016, Snowbird, Utah.

“Joseph Smith, Thomas Ford, and the Third Extradition Attempt,” paper delivered at the 2015 Mormon Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 11, 2015, Provo, Utah.

“J3: the Last Fourteen Months of Joseph Smith’s Life,” presentation delivered at the Religious Education Friday Faculty Forum, November 8, 2013, Brigham Young University.

“How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: A Discussion of Book of Mormon Geography,” presentation delivered at the Religious Education Friday Faculty Forum, 2009, Brigham Young University.

“‘The Light Shall Begin to Break Forth’: Protestant Missions to the Indians in Colonial America,” paper delivered at the 33rd Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, October 30, 2004.

“‘Compassion Upon the Earth:’ Man, Prophets, and Nature,” paper delivered at the “Our Stewardship: Perspectives on Nature” symposium February 28, 2004, at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

“A Wanderer in a Strange Land: Abraham in America, 1800-1850” paper delivered at a FARMS–sponsored conference entitled The Book of Abraham: Astronomy, Papyrus, and Covenant, 16 October 1999 at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

“Life Behind the Front: Challenges of Culture, Climate, and Critters in Ogden Valley, 1860-1896,” paper delivered at the Mormon History Association meetings May 22, 1999, in Ogden, Utah.

“Plain and Precious Truths: John’s Revelation and the Restoration of the Church,” paper delivered at the 27th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 18, 1998.

“‘I wondered if I could feel at home’: Southern Alberta Through the Eyes of Its Early Saints, 1883-1910,” paper delivered in Cardston, Alberta, to the Religious Education faculty attending the Canada excursion as part of the Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History series, July 10, 1998.

“Joseph Smith’s View of Sanctification,” paper delivered at the Joseph Smith in the Context of the Nineteenth Century Seminar, conducted by Richard L. Bushman, Brigham Young University, June 20, 1997.

“The Battle of the Homefront: Pioneer Women and the Art of Homemaking,” paper delivered at the Everyday Life in Pioneer Utah Symposium, Brigham Young University, March 28, 1997.

“Pleasing the Eye and Gladdening the Heart: Joseph Smith and the Fulness of his Earth,” paper delivered at the Pioneers of the Restoration Symposium, Brigham Young University, March 8, 1997.

“Beyond Environmentalism: Where Joseph Smith and the Nineteenth Century Parted Company,” paper delivered at the John Whitmer Historical Association meetings, Independence, Missouri, September 28, 1996.

“First Impressions: California Through the Eyes of Its Early Saints,” paper delivered in Provo, Utah, to the Religious Education faculty attending California excursion as part of the Regional Studies in Church History series, June 1996.

“Mormons and Indians,” paper presented at the Utah Centennial Symposium, Brigham Young University, April 1996.

VIDEO AND DVD INTERVIEWS (24)

History of the Saints Season Four: Joseph Smith and the Foundations of the Restoration: Episode 02: The Episode 03: The Rise of the Bible Episode 04: Prelude to the Restoration Episode 09: The Space of Time Which Intervened Episode 10: Joseph and Moroni Episode 12: Joseph Obtains the Record Episode 14: The Lost Manuscript Episode 16: Translating the Book of Mormon Episode 22: The Organization of the Church of Christ Episode 26: The Mission to the Lamanites Part 1 Episode 27: The Mission to the Lamanites Part 2 Episode 28: The Move to the Ohio

History of the Saints Season Five: Joseph Smith’s Kirtland: Episode 01: Zion’s Camp Episode 05: The Colesville Saints Episode 07: The United Firm Episode 12: The School of the Prophets Episode 13: The Word of Wisdom Episode 16: Trouble in Zion Episode 17: Violence in Jackson County Episode 18: The Expulsion of the Mormons Episode 19: Refuge in Clay County

Joseph Smith Papers Promotional Videos Emma Smith and the Governor of Illinois (summer 2010) Opposition to Joseph Smith (summer 2013)

Museum of Church History and Art The Road to Carthage (September 2015)

KUED Channel 7 Pioneer Diaries (December 5, 2016)

UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Committee member, Search & Recruit Committee, July 2015—August 2016.

Associate Series Editor, Mormon Studies Series, Farleigh Dickenson University Press, September 2013—Present.

Church History Review Board Member, Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, September 2013—September 2016.

Committee member, Religious Education Scholarship Committee, 15 January 2015—4 June 2015.

Religious Education Curriculum Council, September 2014—July 2015.

Committee member, 2015 Sperry Symposium Committee, March 2014—October 2015.

Committee member, Religious Education Awards Committee, September 2013— September 2015.

Committee member, 2013 Church History Symposium, June 2012—September 2015.

Committee Member, Department Rank Advancement Committee, August 2006–August 2009.

Committee Chair, 2008 Sperry Symposium, September 2007–October 2008.

Editor-in-chief, Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture, June 2007–summer 2009.

Committee Member, FARMS Research Advisory Board, August 2005–August 2007.

Committee Member, Joseph Fielding Smith Institute of Latter-day Saint History Advisory Committee, August 2002–August 2005.

Book Review Editor, Mormon Historical Studies (formerly Nauvoo Journal), 1998– 2005.

Committee Member, 2005 Sperry Symposium, June 2003–October 2005.

Committee Member, 2004 Sperry Symposium, April 2003–October 2004.

Committee Member, Religious Education Awards Committee, 2000–2003.

Committee Member, Regional Studies in Church History–New York, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1998–2002.

Committee Member, Regional Studies in Church History–Western Canada, Department of Church History and Doctrine, Brigham Young University, 1997–2000 .

Member of Department Committee assigned to coordinate efforts of Church History and Doctrine faculty with resources and personnel available at LDS Church Archives in Salt Lake City, 1998–1999.

Religious Education Research Coordinator for the Office of Research and Creative Activities, 1996–1999.

Committee Member, Regional Studies in Church History–California, Department of Church History and Doctrine, 1996–1998.

Departmental Representative to Seminar on Joseph Smith, conducted by Richard Bushman, Brigham Young University, June–July, 1997.

Coordinator, Church History tour along the last one hundred miles of the Mormon Trail, June 27–28, 1997.

Co-chair, Pioneers of the Restoration Symposium, co-sponsored by FARMS and Religious Education, Brigham Young University, March 8, 1997.

MENTORING

Faculty mentor for Dr. Andy Reed, September 2014—present.

MA STUDENTS

Thesis chair for Stuart Black, Religious Education, Brigham Young University, September 2015—present.

Thesis chair for Zachary Horton, “‘Wherein Shall We Return?’ A Historical and Analytical Examination of the 1899 Reemphasis of Tithing,” Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2015.

Thesis committee member for Gary S. Ford, “Cornelius P. Lott and his Contribution to the Temporal Salvation of the Latter-day Saint Pioneers through the Care of Livestock,” Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2005.

Thesis committee member for Matthew A. Crawford, “Branches of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1834,” Religious Education, Brigham Young University, 2007.

Thesis committee member for Hyrum Lewis, “Kanosh: The Pavant Chief as farmer, peacemaker, and Latter-day Saint,” The David M. Kennedy Center, Brigham Young University, 2001.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Mormon History Association Utah State Historical Society American Society for Environmental History

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (since June 2013)

New Faculty Field Trip to Historic Sites (9-16 July 2013) Religious Education Teaching Seminar (21 March 2014)

CLASSES TAUGHT

Rel A 121: Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi-Alma 30 Rel C 324: Doctrine and Covenants, Sections 1-76 Rel C 325: Doctrine and Covenants, Sections 77-Official Declaration 2 Rel C 341: Latter-day Saint Church History, 1805-1844 Rel C 342: Latter-day Saint Church History, 1844-1901

AWARDS

Harvey and Susan Easton Black Best Article Award for Andrew H. Hedges, “Thomas Ford and Joseph Smith,” Journal of Mormon History 42/4 (October 2016): 97-124. Granted March 2016.