Grant Hardy

Grant Hardy is a professor of history and religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Asheville and a scholar who has written on the history of pre-modern China as well as examinations of the Book of Mormon as literature.
Hardy was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in California. Hardy served a mission for the LDS Church in Taiwan. Shortly after returning from his mission and beginning his sophomore year at Brigham Young University (BYU) he married Heather Nielson. Hardy has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in classical Greek and got a Ph.D. from Yale University in Chinese literature in 1988.
Hardy held teaching positions at Elmira College and BYU prior to joining the faculty of UNC Asheville in 1994. At UNC Asheville Hardy has served as chair of the history department.
Among works written or edited by Hardy are Worlds of Bronze and Bamboo: Sima Qian's Conquest of History (New York: Columbia University Press); The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005) written with Anne Kinney; he was the editor of The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition (Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005); he wrote Understanding the Book of Mormon: A Reader's Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) and is co-editor with Andrew Feldherr of the forthcoming Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 1: Beginnings to AD 600.
Hardy is a Latter-day Saint. He currently serves as the co-editor of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute's Journal of the Book of Mormon and Restoration Scripture. Hardy and his wife Heather are the parents of two children.

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