Matthew J. Grow (born 1977) is an American historian specializing inMormon history. Grow authored a biography ofThomas L. Kane,Liberty to the Downtrodden (2009),^[6] and co-authored a biography ofParley P. Pratt (2011),^[7] withTerryl Givens. He formerly directed the Center for Communal Studies housed at theUniversity of Southern Indiana. As of 2012, Grow was the director of publications for theChurch History Department ofthe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was among scholars preparing for publication of theJoseph Smith Papers.^[8][9][10]

In 2016, theChurch Historian's Press released the bookThe First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History, which was edited by Grow,Jill Mulvay Derr,Carol Cornwall Madsen, and Kate Holbrook.^[11] He also edited the bookThe Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846, for the Church Historian's Press imprint of Deseret Book, 2016.^[12]

Grow also wrote the article "The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations: Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity".^[13]

In 2018, the LDS Church published Volume 1 of a new history of the church, entitledSaints with the first volume namedThe Standard of Truth. Grow was listed first among four general editors for the volume. In 2020, with the release ofSaints Vol 2,No Unhallowed Hand Grow was again list first among the four general editors.

Grow has abachelor's degree fromBrigham Young University and aPh.D. from theUniversity of Notre Dame. During his graduate training, Grow did a summer seminar course in Latter-day Saint history that was directed byRichard L. Bushman.^[14]

Grow also serves as the historian for theJared Pratt Family Association.

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