[1] He directed BYU's American Studies Program (1989–1994), directed the Center for the Study of Christian Values in Literature and edited the seminal A Believing People anthology, a landmark in Mormon letters.
Along with Neal Lambert, Cracroft was the editor of an anthology of Latter-day Saint literature entitled A Believing People.
Besides writing a large number of literary essays, reviews, Cracroft wrote a short story entitled That My Soul Might See.
He also wrote and edited 13 books, three of them collections of 20th-century literary biographies of Western American authors, and sponsored several conferences about literature and belief, among them, Spiritual Frontiers: Beliefs and Values in the Literary West as well as a work on Washington Irving's Western-themed writing.
Cracroft has also written articles on European literary views of the American west in the 19th century.