Grant Hardy
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Grant Hardy is a professor of history and religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and a scholar who has written on the history of pre-modern China as well as examinations of the Book of Mormon
as literature.
Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in California. Hardy served a mission for the LDS Church in Taiwan. Shortly after returning from his mission and beginning his sophomore year at Brigham Young University
(BYU) he married Heather Nielson. Hardy has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in classical Greek and got a Ph.D. from Yale University
in Chinese literature in 1988.
Hardy held teaching positions at Elmira College
and BYU prior to joining the faculty of UNC Asheville in 1994. At UNC Asheville Hardy has served as chair of the history department.
Among works written or edited by Hardy are Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History (New York: Columbia University Press); The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005) written with Anne Kinney; he was the editor of The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005); he wrote Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) and is co-editor with Andrew Feldherr of the forthcoming Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 1: Beginnings to AD 600.
Hardy is a Latter-day Saint. He currently serves as the co-editor of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute's Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. Hardy and his wife Heather are the parents of two children.
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2600 BC to AD 421. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr...
as literature.
Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in California. Hardy served a mission for the LDS Church in Taiwan. Shortly after returning from his mission and beginning his sophomore year at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
(BYU) he married Heather Nielson. Hardy has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in classical Greek and got a Ph.D. from Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
in Chinese literature in 1988.
Hardy held teaching positions at Elmira College
Elmira College
Elmira College is a coeducational private liberal arts college located in Elmira, in New York State's Southern Tier region.The college is noted as the oldest college still in existence which granted degrees to women that were the equivalent of those given to men...
and BYU prior to joining the faculty of UNC Asheville in 1994. At UNC Asheville Hardy has served as chair of the history department.
Among works written or edited by Hardy are Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History (New York: Columbia University Press); The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005) written with Anne Kinney; he was the editor of The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005); he wrote Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) and is co-editor with Andrew Feldherr of the forthcoming Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 1: Beginnings to AD 600.
Hardy is a Latter-day Saint. He currently serves as the co-editor of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute's Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. Hardy and his wife Heather are the parents of two children.