# Benjamin Park

Benjamin E. Park is an American historian concentrating on early American political, religious, and intellectual history, history of gender, religious studies, slavery, anti-slavery, and Atlantic history. Park is an assistant professor at Sam Houston State University. == Career == Park is co-editor of Mormon Studies Review (2019– ), a member of the executive committee of the Mormon History Association (2017– ), editor the Mormon Studies [book] Series for Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2016– ), member of the editorial board of the Journal of Mormon History (2012–2015), a founder and editor of The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History (2012– ), a founder and co-editor of the Patheos.com column Peculiar People (2012–2015), member of the editorial board of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (2011–2012), a founder and contributing editor at Juvenile Instructor: A Mormon History Blog (2007– ).A review of Park's American Nationalisms in Journal of the Early Republic said, "Park’s ambition is the source of this book’s strengths and of most of its shortcomings"; and, a review in Journal of American History said that Park "argues that the Revolution severed the one thing Americans had in common, that they were subjects of the British Crown.