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Benjamin E. Park
0755 606 6369 (UK) / 505 573 0509 (US) benjamin.e.park@gmail.com 2014 (exp.) Hughes Hall University of Cambridge

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Education Ph.D., History, University of Cambridge Dissertation: Localized Nationalisms in Post-Revolutionary America Advisor: Michael OBrien M.Phil., Political Thought and Intellectual History, University of Cambridge Thesis: German Philosophy, American Thought, and Defining Democracy in Antebellum Boston (received distinction) Advisors: Douglas Hedley, Michael OBrien M.Sc., Historical Theology, University of Edinburgh, with distinction Thesis: Contesting Reason, Constricting Boundaries: Thomas Paines Age of Reason and the Formation of American Identities in the 1790s Advisors: Stewart Jay Brown, Francis Cogliano B.A., Literature and History, Brigham Young University Fellowships and Awards Santander Bursary Scholarship, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge Masters Thesis Distinction, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence, Mormon History Association New Voices Award, Dialogue Foundation Masters Degree Distinction, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh Best Postgraduate Paper, Scottish Association for the Study of America Research Fellow, Summer Seminar, Neal A. Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University (Under the direction of Terryl Givens, Matthew Grow, and the supervision of Richard Bushman) Juanita Brooks Award for Best Undergraduate Paper, Mormon History Association LeRoy Hafen Award in North American History, BYU History Department Runner-Up, Best Undergraduate Paper, Phi Alpha Theta-Utah Region Office of Research and Creative Activities Grant, Brigham Young University Harold B. Lee Library Research Grant, Brigham Young University Kelley Grant, John Whitmer Historical Association Student Paper Award, BYU Department of Religion

Journal Articles and Book Chapters Under Review I Object to the Names Deism and Infidelity: Theodore Parker and the Boundaries of Christianity in Antebellum America, Fides et Historia. Under Review Transcendental Democracy: Ralph Waldo Emersons Political Thought, the Legacy of Federalism, and the Paradoxes of Americas Democratic Tradition, Journal of American Political Thought. Under Review Theocracy, Patriarchy, and Authority: Early Mormonism and Democratic Angst, Journal of the Early Republic.

Under Review Situating the Early American Republic in the Atlantic World, U.S. Studies Online. In Press Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the Division of Sacred and Secular in the Age of Revolutions, in Benjamin Franklins Intellectual World, ed. Paul Kerry and Matthew Holland (Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012). In Press Reasonings Sufficient: Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the Context(s) of Early Mormonism, Journal of Mormon History 38 (Summer 2012), special issue in honor of Richard Lyman Bushman. 2011 Roundtable Introduction and Parley Pratts Writing as Restoration and Redemption, part of Perspectives on Parley Pratts Autobiography: A Roundtable, Journal of Mormon History 37, no. 1 (Winter): 151153, 158-164. (Roundtable organizer) 2010 The Riches of Materialism: Parley Pratts Materiality and Early Mormon Theology, Mormon Historical Studies 11, no. 2. (Fall): 159-172. (Co-authored with Jordan Watkins) 2010 A Uniformity So Complete: Early Mormon Angelology and Microhistorical Theology, Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies 2: 1-37. 2010 Salvation Through a Tabernacle: Joseph Smith, Parley Pratt, and Early Mormon Theologies of Embodiment, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 43, no. 2 (Summer): 1-44. [Recipient of the J. Talmage Jones Award of Excellence; Dialogue Foundations New Voices Award] 2010 Build, Therefore, Your Own World: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and American Antebellum Thought, Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (Winter): 41-72. [Recipient of the Juanita Brooks Award for Best Undergraduate Paper; LeRoy Hafen Award in North American History.] 2009 By the Glory of Our Fathers: Theodore Parker and the Memory of the American Revolution, Thetean 9: 77-90. [Runner-up for Best Undergraduate Paper Award, Phi Alpha ThetaUtah Region.] 2009 Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down thy Life for Thy Brethren: Zions Blessings in the Early Church, John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 29: 27-37. 2012 2011 Reference Work, Opinion Pieces, Essays, and Other Publications George Bancroft and Philip Tappan, in The Dictionary of Early American Philosophers, ed. John R. Shook (New York: Continuum, 2012). Obviously Christian: The American Tradition of Using Orthodoxy as a Bludgeon, Patheos, http://www.patheos.com/Resources/AdditionalResources/Obviously-Christian-Benjamin-Park-07-21-2011.html (July 2011) Art, Politics, and Religion: McNaughtons Agenda, Patheos, http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/ArtPolitics-and-Religion-McNaughtons-Agenda-Benjamin-Park-05-172011.html (May 2011) Developing a Historical Conscience: Wilford Woodruff and the Preservation of History, Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints: Proceedings from the 4th Annual Church History Symposium, ed. Steven Harper and Rick Turley (Brigham Young Universitys

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Religious Studies Center, 2010): 121-141. Book of Mormon Witnesses, in Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall (ABC-CLIO). We Announce the Martyrdom: The Murder of Joseph Smith as Portrayed in Times and Seasons Poetry, Selections from the 2008 Religious Education Student Symposium 8: 34-47. [Winner of BYU School of Religion Student Award.] Book Reviews David Holland, Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (New York: Oxford University Press). Journal of Mormon History. Christopher Flynn, Americans in British Literature, 1770-1832 (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008). 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies. Polly Aird, Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 (Norman, Okl.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2009). Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Craig S. Campbell, Images of the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Faction Interpretations of Independence, Missouri (Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 2004). Brigham Young University Studies. Articles in Process Contesting Reason, Constricting Boundaries: Thomas Paines Age of Reason and the Battle over National Identities in 1790s America German Theology Comes to America: George Bancroft, Frederic Hedge, and Interpreting Foreign Ideology in Antebellum Boston Conference Papers and Presentations On Mormon Thought and its Context(s): Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the Task of Determining Influence, Mormonism in Cultural Contexts: A Symposium in Honor of Richard Bushman, Springville, UT. Native Muses and Exotic Others: Playwrights, Popular Novelists, and Depicting the Foreign in Early America, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Graduate Student Conference in Early American Studies, University of Connecticut and American Antiquarian Society. Contesting Reason, Constricting Boundaries: Transatlantic Responses to Thomas Paines Age of Reason and the Battle for an American Identity, British Association for American Studies Postgraduate Conference, University of Oxford. Celestial Family Organization: The Developing Nature of Mormon Conceptions of Heaven, circa 1840s, Mormon History Association, Kansas City, MO. German Theology Comes to Boston: George Bancroft, Frederic Hedge, and the Politics of Foreign Ideology in Antebellum Boston, Scottish Association for the Study of America, Edinburgh, Scotland [Winner of Scottish Association for the Study of Americas Postgraduate Award.] Embracing Europe, Rejecting Europe: German Theology and American Thought in AnteAbellum Boston, Old Scottish Universities

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Ecclesiastical History Conference, Perth, Scotland. I Object to the Names Deism and Infidelity: Theodore Parker and the Boundaries of Christianity in Antebellum America, 2nd Annual United States Intellectual History Conference, New York, NY. Here Was Material Salvation: Divine Embodiment, Human Corporality, and Parley Pratt, Parley and Orson Pratt and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Thought, Brigham Young University. Rational Supernaturalism: Early Mormonism and Enlightened-Romantic Rhetoric, Mormon History Association, Springfield, IL. I Preach Abundant Heresies: Theodore Parker and Conversion to Liberal Religion in Antebellum America, Southwestern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO. By the Glory of Our Fathers: Theodore Parker and the American Revolution, Regional Conference for Phi Alpha Theta, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. The First Great American Infidel: Memorializing Theodore Parker, Identity, Boundaries, and Movement, Florida State University. Developing a Historical Conscience: Wilford Woodruff and the Preservation of History, Preserving the History of the Latter-day Saints: 4th Annual BYU Church History Symposium, Provo, UT. Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down thy Life for thy Brethren: Zions Blessings in Early Mormonism, John Whitmer Historical Association, Voree, WI. The Defining Intellectual Influence: Romanticism and Mormonism, Mormon History Association Annual Conference, Sacramento, CA. Losing a Generation: Latter-day Saint Interpretations of Lost Generation Literature, Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Annual Conference, Southern Virginia University. To Make a Character Fit: The Role of History in A Little Lower than the Angels, National Undergraduate Literature Conference, Weber State University, Ogden, UT. Perceptions of Polygamy: The Folklore of Plural Marriage, Folklore Society of Utah Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. Teaching and Research Experience Undergraduate SupervisorKings College, University of Cambridge Supervision Topic: Mormonism and American Culture Adjunct Professor of ReligionBrigham Young University Courses Taught: Doctrine and Covenants (LDS Scripture and History) Student Research AssistantJoseph Smith Papers Project Description: historical research and documentation; transcription of historical letters, diaries, and documents; archival research; interpretation of historical sources Supervisor: Kay Darowski, kay_darowski@byu.edu 801.422.1521 Research InternChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; Historic Sites Committee Description: historical research and documentation; interpretation of historical sources; archival research; preparation for presentation of public history Supervisor: Mark Staker, stakerml@ldschurch.org, 801.422.3533

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Professional Organizations British Association for American Studies Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Society for Historians of the Early Republic American Historical Association American Society of Church History Mormon History Association

References Michael OBrien Professor of American Intellectual History Cambridge University mo10003@hermes.cam.ac.uk Stewart Jay Brown Head of School of Divinity Professor of Ecclesiastical History University of Edinburgh s.j.brown@ed.ac.uk Paul Kerry Associate Professor of History Brigham Young University paul_kerry@byu.edu Douglas Hedley Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics Cambridge University rdh26@cam.ac.uk Terryl L. Givens James A. Bostwick Professor of English Professor of Literature and Religion University of Richmond tgivens@richmond.edu Frank Cogliano Professor of American History University of Edinburgh f.cogliano@ed.ac.uk