William Perez | Department of Religion

PhD Student

Area

American Religious History

Graduate Student

Office Location

323/329 DIF

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.

“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

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