Underwood, Grant: - Grant Underwood is professor of history and Richard L. Evans Chair of Religious Understanding at Brigham Young University. He was founding co-director of the American Academy of Religion's Mormon Studies Group and has co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for university professors and college teachers on Joseph Smith and Mormonism. Additionally, he has published a number of articles and books, such as The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism, that seek to explicate and contextualize the doctrine and history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His most recent book is Latter-day Saint Theology among Christian Theologies.