Hovan Lawton is originally from Provo, Utah, and graduated in 2021 from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in history. He is currently finishing a master’s degree in history at Utah State University, where he holds the Arrington Fellowship. His research interests include nineteenth-century Latter-day Saint history in the American West, as well as the history and development of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Latin America.
Hovan received the Carol Sorensen Smith Award and was selected to present his exemplary research at the Wilford Woodruff Papers Building Latter Day Conference in March 2023.
