Cristina Rosetti
Cristina is a public scholar of minority religions in the U.S. She received a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside. Following completion of her dissertation, Cristina worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University and as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Utah Tech University.
Cristina’s research focuses on the history and lived experience of Mormon fundamentalists in the Intermountain West. During her academic career, she published widely on Mormon fundamentalist theology, including the history of post-Manifesto polygamy. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Mormon History, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and American Religion.
In 2024, she published her first book, Joseph White Muster: A Mormon Fundamentalist (University of Illinois Press). She was awarded the Best Biography Award in 2025 by the Mormon History Association and John Whitener Historical Association.
With Joseph Stuart, she is currently the co-editor of Mormon Studies Review.
Books
Jospeh White Muster:
A Mormon Fundamentalist
University of Illinois Press, 2024“Cristina Rosetti places Joseph Musser in his rightful place as a consequential figure within the Mormon diaspora. And in so doing, she demonstrates the ideological dimensions of Mormon fundamentalism--a diverse, layered, and even modern expression of religious innovation.”--Benjamin E. Park, author of American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
"These beliefs compiled by Rosetti in the book underscore why Mormon fundamentalism will likely never go away. It has its history. It has its revelations .It has its modern-day prophets." --Mormon History and Culture
"Cristina Rosetti’s Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist provides a comprehensive and analytically rich examination of Musser’s life and theology . . . . This volume is a must-read for those seeking a deeper understanding of the complexities of early twentieth-century Mormonism."--Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Saint: The Journals of Saint Joseph White Musser, 1897–1954
Up to this point, public writings were the only way to know Joseph W. Musser's history. His private diaries and correspondences are vital primary documents to understand twentieth-century Mormonism, the period of ambiguity over the long end to plural marriage, and the development of Mormon fundamentalism. This documentary history of Musser's diaries and correspondences makes his private writings available in full for the first time.
Beginning in 2018, the authors of this documentary history transcribed the entire collection of diaries and correspondence, currently restricted in the Church History Library and unavailable to scholars and faithful Mormons who regard Musser as the spiritual father of their faith.
Forthcoming with Signature BooksFind other projects here.
