Previously, until and including its 2018 issue, the journal was published by Brigham Young University's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.

[1] In November 2018, ownership transferred to the University of Illinois Press, which continues to publish the journal.

"[10] In 2012, Peterson was removed as editor and the journal entered hiatus as it sought to become more mainstream to Mormon studies.

J. Spencer Fluhman, from BYU's department of history, was appointed editor-in-chief with a new broad-based advisory board.

[15][11] After publishing six volumes, the Maxwell Institute transferred ownership of the Review to the University of Illinois Press.