W. Paul Reeve (born July 27, 1968) is an American historian and Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies and History in the History Department at the University of Utah.
[6] Reeve oversees the digital project Century of Black Mormons, which identifies Black Mormons across the United States and internationally who were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ between 1830 and 1930.
[7][8] Alongside Reeve, "independent historian"[9] Ardis E. Parshall contributes to the Century of Black Mormons project.
[10] Reeve has been the recipient of the University of Utah's Early Career Teaching Award,[11] and the College of Humanities' Ramona W. Cannon Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities.
[6] In 2016, the Utah Council for Social Studies named him University Teacher of the Year.