Craig Edward Harline is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) and an author of several books.

Harline was raised in a LDS family with seven siblings in Fresno, California.

He served as a missionary in Belgium in the 1970s, where he developed his interests in European history.

He held teaching positions at Rutgers and the University of Idaho, before he began at BYU in 1992.

[1] In 2017 Harline was appointed to De Lamar Jensen Professorship of Early Modern History, the first endowed named chair to be established in the BYU history department.