Sessions
Opening Plenary: Dr. Janiece Johnson [Online]
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Fri
Opening Plenary: Dr. Janiece Johnson
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Fri
Janiece Johnson is a transplanted Bay Area, California native who loves history, design, art, good food, and traveling. Dr. Johnson has master's degrees in American Religious History and Theology and a PhD in American History, taught and researched at BYU-Idaho and BYU, and is now acquisitions director at Deseret Book. She is the co-author of Witness of Women (Deseret Book, 2016), general editor of The Mountain Meadows Massacre: Complete Legal Papers (University of Oklahoma, 2017), and the recently published Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). Dr. Johnson's current research centers on the Book of Mormon and the relationship of early Latter-day Saint converts to their new American scripture.