J. Spencer Fluhman is a professor of history at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. Fluhman received a bachelor's degree from BYU and a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Fluhman also has a Ph.D. in American religious history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctoral dissertation was on 19th-century anti-Mormon literature. As a graduate student, Fluhman was part of a summer seminar on Mormon History at BYU run by Richard Bushman. Fluhman has held a fellowship at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at IUPUI.