Reid Neilson

	Dept:	Church History
	Title:	Assistant Professor
	Office:	270T JSB
	Phone:	422-9174
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Bio: Born and reared in Southern California. Received BA degree in international relations from Brigham Young University in 1996. After graduation worked for Arthur Andersen's Strategy, Finance, and Economics Division in Los Angeles and London, consulted for Walt Disney's Strategic Planning Division in Tokyo, and researched for the University of Michigan Business School's Asia-Pacific Human Resources Partnership in Hong Kong. Took graduate degrees in American history and business administration at Brigham Young University in 2001 and 2002 respectively. In 2006 completed my PhD in religious studies (American religious history emphasis) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Courses Taught: Introduction to American Religious History, Mormonism and the American Experience, Doctrine and Covenants.

Areas of Expertise: American religious history, Mormon and Protestant missiology, Asian religions in America.

Areas of Research: Interested in American religious history, with an emphasis on Mormon and Protestant missionary forays into the Pacific basin frontier during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. I wrote a comparative history of Latter-day Saint and Protestant missiology in Meiji Japan for my doctoral dissertation. I am currently writing a history of the LDS Church participation at the 1893 Chicago World's Faith titled Exhibiting Mormonism.

Languages: Spoken Japanese

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Reid Neilson