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Brian M. Hauglid (Born 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University (BYU). From 2014-2017 he was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and currently serves as director of the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies a part of BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute.
Hauglid was raised in the suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was raised as a Catholic. He was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1976. He served a mission for the LDS Church in the California Sacramento Mission.
Hauglid has a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern Studies from BYU. He received a PhD from the University of Utah in Arabic and Islamic studies in 1998.
In 1999 he joined the BYU faculty. In additional to his work with the Journal of Book of Mormon Studies and the Willes Center he has been on the editorial advisory board for the Easter Christian Text Series of BYU's Middle Eastern Texts Initiative. He was also a co-editor of the Maxwell Institutes Studies of the Bible and Antiquity. He co-edited the Studies in the Book of Abraham Series with John Gee.
Hauglid is a member of the academic advisory board of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies.
He and his wife, the former Tessa McNamara, have three daughters.
Hauglid has served in multiple positions in the LDS Church. Among other positions in the LDS Church he has served as a bishop.
Hauglid has published extensively studies on the Book of Abraham. He is currently working on a project entitled Mummies, Manuscripts, and Making Scriptures: The History and Controversies of the Pearl of Great Price with Terryl L. Givens. Some of his work was cited in the LDS Church Gospel Topics essay on the Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham.