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Whittaker also received his Doctor of Philosophy from Brigham Young University.
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He has authored or co-authored seven books and about fifty scholarly articles He was also a professor of history at Brigham Young University (Brigham Young University). Currently he is working with the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
Whittaker received his bachelor"s degree from Brigham Young University in 1967.
Whittaker has also been a Beinecke fellow at Yale University and a Fulbright Fellow in the David and Mary Eccles Center for American Studies at the British Library in London. He was also a co-author of Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles (written with James B Allen and Ron Esplin) Whittaker co-edited Supporting Saints with Donald Q. Cannon.
Whittaker is married to the former Linda Struhs. They are the parents of four children.
Whittaker and Dean Jessee"s 1988 piece in Brigham Young University Studies which examines the Danites using Albert P. Rockwood"s journal is considered one of the best studies on this matter.
Whittaker also wrote the foreword to The Essential Orson Pratt. Whittaker is coeditor of volumes one and two of the Histories series of the Joseph Smith Papers Project (volume 1 was published in the spring of 2012).
