Mark Ashurst-McGee

Mark Roscoe Ashurst-McGee (born 1968) is an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and editor for the Joseph Smith Papers project.

From 1988 to 1990, Ashurst-McGee served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in New Jersey. His wife Angela was a fellow of Western American Literature (an academic journal), a teacher of college English, a freelance editor for the Joseph Smith Papers, and currently runs the résumé writing service Red Rocket Résumé. They have five children.

Ashurst-McGee received a B.A. and B.S. from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1994, and an M.A. in History from Utah State University (USU) in 2000. During his graduate studies he also did a summer seminar course in Latter-day Saint history at BYU that was led by Richard L. Bushman.His master's thesis on Joseph Smith's religious development won the Reese History Award from the Mormon History Association. He then pursued his doctorate in history at Arizona State University (ASU), where he also worked on a project for American Indian history and culture. His dissertation was on Joseph Smith's early social and political thought, and won the Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award from the Mormon History Association. Through this training, he became a "specialist in documentary editing conventions and transcription methodology." A BYU professor of religious education and colleague in the Joseph Smith Papers Project, Steven C. Harper, stated Ashurst-McGee "probably knows the field of documentary editing better than anybody that I know."

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