Publications

Articles/Chapters in Journals and Books 

2024        Smith Hansen, Konden R., Melody Buckner, Angela Gunder, and Wen Wen. “Designing Instructional Digital Media in Higher Education: A Guide for Instructional Designers.” Co-authors, in The SAGE Handbook of Higher Education Instructional Design, Baiyun Chen, ed. (Peer reviewed: SAGE Publications)

2024        “Frontier Violence: Making Americans and the Myth of the West (1860-1890),” in Religion and the American West. Edited by Jessica Criales (By Invitation: University of New Mexico Press)

2024        “Writing Frontier Religion: A Personal and Professional Journey,” in Writing Mormon History: Historians and their Books. Edited by Joseph W. Geisner (By Invitation: Signature Books) (forthcoming)

2023        “Mormonism in North America,” in Christianity in North America: An Introduction (Peer-reviewed: Bloomsbury Publishing)

2015         “Early Mormonism: A Promised Land: Early Mormon Success in America and England 1830 to 1850,” in World Religions: Belief, Culture, and Controversy (Peer-reviewed: ABC-CLIO)

2012         “The Dawning of a New Era: Mormonism and the World’s Colombian Exposition of 1893,” in Mormons and American Popular Culture, vols. 2 (Peer-reviewed: ABC-CLIO)

2009         “The Reed Smoot Hearings and the Theology of Politics: Perceiving an ‘American’ Mormon Identity.” Journal of Mormon History 35/3: 118-162. (Peer-reviewed)

2008         *“Appropriating the Secular: Mormonism and the World Columbian Exposition of 1893.” Journal of Mormon History 34/4: 153-180. (Peer-reviewed)

Encyclopedia Entries

2010        “Muslim Girl Scouts,” in Edward E. Curtis, Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History (New York: Facts On File, 2010)

2010         “Muslim Boy Scouts,” in Edward E. Curtis, Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History (New York: Facts On File, 2010)

Book Reviews 

2016         Todd M. Kerstetter, Inspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West. Reading Religion, A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 2016. Online

2012         Reid L. Neilson, Exhibiting Mormonism: The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Religion in the American West. Blog (September)

2010         Edward L. Lyman, Susan W. Payne, and S. George Ellsworth, eds. No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. Journal of Mormon History vol. 36:4