Elizabeth Kuehn

Elizabeth A. Kuehn is a historian in the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is lead historian of the Financial Records series and a volume editor of the Documents series of the Joseph Smith Papers project. She is also working on the Discourses of Eliza R. Snow.

She was a co-editor of several documentary editions of The Joseph Smith Papers, including Documents Volume 5: October 1835-January 1838 and Documents Volume 6: February 1838 - August 1839, both of which were published in 2017.

Her research has specialized in the Latter-day Saint community in Kirtland, Ohio, and the financial records of Joseph Smith. She has worked on controversies in Nauvoo in 1842, including John C. Bennett’s accusations, Joseph Smith’s bankruptcy proceedings, and plural marriage. She has worked to bring greater inclusion of women and representation of their experiences to the Joseph Smith Papers Project.

Before joining the project, she was an instructor in the history department and religious studies program at the University of California, Irvine.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in history and a classical language certificate from Arizona State University and her Master of Arts in degree in European and women’s history from Purdue University. She is a PhD candidate in early modern European history at the University of California, Irvine.