J. Spencer Fluhman is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.
As a graduate student, Fluhman was part of a summer seminar on Mormon History at BYU run by Richard Bushman.
[1] Fluhman has held a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI.
[2] On May 4, 2016, BYU announced that Fluhman had been appointed executive director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship.
As of late 2016 Fluhman was the co-chair of the Mormon Studies Group in the American Academy of Religion.