Alex D. Smith

Alex D. Smith is a historian with the Joseph Smith Papers in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He holds BA and MA degrees in U.S. History. His research specialization is Nauvoo-era Mormon and mid-19th-century western Illinois history. He has been employed as document editor for the Joseph Smith Papers since 2003, served as an instructor for Brigham Young University's Continuing Education intermittently for ten years, and previously worked as a research historian for the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History.