Jedediah Smart Rogers is a doctoral student at Arizona State University. At Brigham Young University, where his master's thesis was "Rebels, Toadstool Worshipers, and the Great Western 'Land Grab': The Sagebrush Rebellion in Utah," he received the William J. Snow Award in Western U.S. History. He has published in the Utah Historical Quarterly and Utah Preservation. He has delivered papers at gatherings of the Mormon History Association and at BYU's Religious Education Student Symposium. He served an LDS mission to Costa Rica.