Mark Roscoe Ashurst-McGee[1] (born 1968)[2] is an American historian of the Latter Day Saint movement and editor for the Joseph Smith Papers project.
[2] During his graduate studies he also did a summer seminar course in Latter-day Saint history at BYU that was led by Richard L.
"[9] A BYU professor of religious education and colleague in the Joseph Smith Papers Project, Steven C. Harper, stated Ashurst-McGee "probably knows the field of documentary editing better than anybody that I know.
[11] After his time at ASU, he joined the staff of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University.
Along with Richard L. Jensen and Dean C. Jessee, he co-edited the first volume to be published from the series, which was on the early journals of Joseph Smith.