Benjamin E. Park received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in constitutional democracy at the University of Missouri, and is currently an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He is the editor of A Companion to American Religious History (Blackwell, 2021) and DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn (Signature Books, 2022), co-editor of the journal Mormon Studies Review, and author of American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier(Liveright, 2020; winner of the MHA Best Book Award). He has published over fifty popular essays in various national venues, including Time Magazine, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Slate, and Washington Post. His most recent book is American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (Liveright, 2024). After attending his first MHA conference as an undergraduate student in 2008, Dr. Park has participated in every annual conference since then but one. The association is his home; its members are his favorite people. He has been honored to spend time on the board of directors, twice receive the association's "Article of Excellence" award, and is now deeply humbled yet excited to serve in another capacity.