William Perez

Recent Publications

• Forthcoming: “Unholy Waters: The Role of Alcohol in Shaping Boundaries and Identities within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” in Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol (Routledge Press).

• “Happiness in Havana? Día de Reyes as an Emotional Refuge in Colonial Cuba” in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, vol. 45, no.1 (2024), 45-62.

• “Reclaiming the Primary Question: A New Beginning for Joseph Smith’s First Vision” in BYU Studies, vol. 62, no. 3 (2023), 149-166.

• Book Review, “Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition,” in Reading Religion, October 2023.

• “Ascended into Heaven: The Book of Mormon’s Witness of Jesus Christ’s Ascension” in I Glory in My Jesus: Understanding Christ in the Book of Mormon, BYU Religious Studies Center, October 2023.

• Book Review, “Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration” in Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies.

• Book Review, “No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America” in Reading Religion, September 2022.

• “Raised Unto Eternal Life: The Principle of Ascension in the Revelations of the Restoration,” Religious Educator Journal, Vol. 22 No.1, 2021. 

Institutes and Fellowship Support

• “Domestic Young Scholar,” The Church History Library and Museum of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2023-2024
• Joseph Smith Historic Site, Nauvoo, Illinois – Summer 2022
• National Endowment for the Humanities Institute – The Revolution in Books, Boca Raton, Florida – June 2022

Conference Presentations

• Mormon History Association, New York – June 2023

• Faith and Knowledge, Claremont, California – May 2023

• Slavery and the Emotions in the Atlantic World, University of Reading, England – November 2022 

• Teaching with Books, Florida Atlantic University – August 2022

• Conference – An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol, University of Western Michigan – March 2022