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Brigham Young University. University of Utah; University of Virginia.
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Ron Esplin
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Esplin holds degrees from Brigham Young University, the University of Utah and the University of Virginia. In 1972 Esplin was planning to start a teaching career as an Institute instructor. He was recruited to work for the summer under Church Historian Leonard J. Arrington doing a search and study of Brigham Young"s papers in the church archive.
By 1984 Esplin was director of the Smith Institute and he helped Dean C. Jessee to get The Papers of Joseph Smith: Volume 1 published in 1984.
Esplin was also involved in the decision to entirely revamp the project In 2001 he left Brigham Young University and took over as director of the papers project full-time.
However from 2001-2005 the project was operating at Brigham Young University. In 2005 it relocated to the Church Archives in Salt Lake City. Esplin was also one of fourteen editors working on the project under Daniel H. Ludlow.
Besides directing the Smith Institute, Esplin also taught classes in Church History at Brigham Young University. As managing editor of the Joseph Smith papers project Esplin has been working to make it so that once the papers come out they are available in many libraries around the world.
Esplin has seven children and has served in such positions as a counselor in a bishopric.
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Mormonism