Katherine Pollock interviews Kyle Beshears about his doctoral dissertation "Wingfield Watson and His Struggle to Preserve the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite) After the Death of Its Founder". James J. Strang was one of several leaders who claimed succession to Joseph Smith after Smith's death in 1844 and gathered converts in Voree, Wisconsin and on Beaver Island. After Strang was assassinated in 1856, the Stangite community started to fall apart. Beshears's research details the life and work of the Stangite leader Wingfield Watson who preserved James J. Strang's teachings and Strangite documents for the remnant Strangite community.  You can find Kyle's dissertation here: https://digital.library.sbts.edu/bitstream/handle/10392/6603/Beshears_sbts_0207D_10678.pdf