Ralph Lanier Britsch[1] (born 1938) was a history professor at Brigham Young University who specialized in the history of missionary work by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), particularly in the Pacific Islands and Asia.
Britsch served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Hawaii two times, first as a youth, and later as a senior missionary assigned to help document the history of the Polynesian Cultural Center.
For a time, Britsch was the director of BYU's David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies.
[2] Britsch was also Vice President for Academics at Brigham Young University Hawaii between 1986 and 1990.
Britsch has served in many positions in the LDS Church, including numerous assignments in bishoprics of BYU student wards and in the leadership of BYU student stakes.