Konden Smith Hansen

Konden Smith Hansen (Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Arizona State University) is Lecturer of Religious Studies at the University of Arizona, specializing in American Religious History, with a particular expertise in Mormon Studies. He is the author of the award winning Frontier Religion: Mormons in America, 1857-1907 (University of Utah Press, 2019) and co-editor of the award winning The Reed Smoot Hearings: The Investigation of a Mormon Senator and the Making of an American Religion (Utah State University Press, 2021). He currently teaches courses on American religious history, film and religion, Mormonism, world religions, and religious violence.