Dr. Craig K. Manscill, an associate professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University, Provo, received graduate degrees from Brigham Young University and his undergraduate degree from Weber State College. Prior to joining the religion department at BYU in 1999, Brother Manscill was employed as a religious educator for twenty years with seminaries and institutes of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Brother Manscill was reared in the town of Farr West, Utah. He belongs to the Lindon Fourth Ward in Lindon, Utah, where he resides with his wife, Jana Lee Hancey. They are the parents of eight children.