Please note that awards are given the year after publication of books or articles, or after the year when dissertations, theses, or student papers are written and submitted.


For Service

Leonard J. Arrington Award

YearName
2023Gregory Prince
2022Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
2021Newell Bringhurst
2020Richard E. Turley Jr.
2019Kathleen Flake
2018Gary James Bergera
2017Jill Mulvay Derr
2016D. Michael Quinn
2015Nestor Esteban Curbelo Armando
2014Ron Romig
2013Martha Bradley Evans
2012William G. Hartley
2011Carol Cornwall Madsen
2010“Richard Lyman Bushman
Claudia Lauper Bushman”
2009Edward Leo Lyman
2008James B. Allen
2007Davis Bitton
2006Steven R. Sorensen
2005Donald L. Enders
2004Jessie L. Embry
2003Milton V. Backman Jr.
2002William A. “Bert” Wilson
2001LaMar C. Berrett
2000Larry C. Porter
Change in name of the award: Grace Fort Arrington Award for Historical Excellence
1998Elizabeth “Liz” Dulany
1997William A. “Bert” Wilson
1996[No award given]
1995Armand L. Mauss
1994Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
1993Glen M. Leonard
1992Stanley B. Kimball
1991Lavina Fielding Anderson
1990“Thomas G. Alexander
William Grover
Winifred Foster Reese”
1989Richard P. Howard
1988George Ellsworth
1987David Whittaker
1986Jan Shipps
1985Gordon Irving
1984Peggy Fletcher and Sunstone
1983Ronald Walker
1982Dean Jessee

Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award

YearName
2023Norbert Kalogo Ounleu: Church History Fairs in West Africa
Newbury, England Ward: Newbury, England Ward 180th Anniversary History Project
2022Century of Black Mormons

Best Indigenous Studies Award

YearName
2023Thomas Murphy, Simon Southerton and Angelo Baca

B.H. Roberts Grant

YearName
2023Jennifer Roach
Venice Jardine
Randy Astle

For Books

Best Book Award

YearName
2023K. Mohrman, Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
2022Adam Jortner, No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
2021Benjamin Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
2020David Walker, Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
2019Jonathan A. Stapley, The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
2018Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
2017Thomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism
2016W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
2015Russell W. Stevenson, For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism
2014J.B.Haws, The Mormon Image in the American Mind
2013Brandon Plewe, S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
2012Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
2011Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations
2010Matthew J. Grow, “Liberty to the Downtrodden”: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
2009Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy
2008Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture
2007Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History
2006Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
2005Kathleen Flake, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
2004Armand Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
2003Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-century America
2002Kathryn M. Daynes, More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
2001Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons
2000Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography
1999Ronald W. Walker, Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young
1998Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
1997Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
1996Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
1995Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West
1994Grant Underwood, The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
1993B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
1992Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
1991Roger Launius, Father Figure: Joseph Smith III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church
1990Marvin S. Hill, Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
1989Levi S. Peterson, Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian
1988D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
1987Thomas G. Alexander, Mormonism in Transition: A History of Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
1986Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses
1985Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
1984D. Michael Quinn, J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years
1983Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier
1982Lawrence Foster, Religion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Stanley B. Kimball, Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
1981[No award given]
1980Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints
1979Richard H. Jackson, The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West
1978[No award given]
1977Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May, Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation Among Mormons
1976Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
1975Dean C. Jessee, Letters of Brigham Young to his Sons
1974Charles S. Peterson, Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
1973S. George Ellsworth, Utah’s Heritage
1972[No award given]
1971Gustive O. Larson, The “Americanization” of Utah for Statehood
1970Richard P. Howard, Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development
1969[No award given]
1968Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
1967[No award given]
1966Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
James L. Haseltine, 100 Years of Utah Painting

Best Biography Award

YearName
2023Ronald V. Huggins
2022Virginia Kerns
2021Elisa Eastwood Pulido
2020Quincy Newell
2019Daniel P. Stone
2018Carol Cornwall Madsen
2017Stephen L Prince
2016Ronald Romig
2015Julie Debra Neuffer
2014Todd Compton
2013John G. Turner
2012Veda Tebbs Hale
2011No award given
2010Polly Aird
2009William B. Smart
2009Gary Topping
2008Frederick H. Swanson
2007Levi S. Peterson
2006Gregory A. Prince and William Robert Wright
2005Dan Vogel
2004Alan K. Parrish
2003Boyd Jay Peterson
2002Ronald O. Barney
2001Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage Woodward
2000Newell G. Bringhurst
1999Valeen Tippetts Avery
1998Andrew F. Smith
1997No award given
1996Mary L. Bradford
1995Richard Van Wagoner
1994No award given
1993Maria S. Ellsworth
1992Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
1991Milton R. Merrill

Best Documentary Editing / Bibliography Award

YearName
2022Elizabeth A. Kuehn, Matthew C. Godfrey, Jordan T. Watkins, and Mason K. Allred
2020Gary Bergera
2019[No award given]
2018Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow
2017[No award given]
2016Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen
2015Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson
2014Michael Hubbard MacKay, Garrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J, Woodford, William G. Hartley, Matthew Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee
2013Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark R. Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen
2012John S. Dinger
2011Edward Leo Lyman
2010Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson
2010Richard E. Turley and Ronald W. Walker
2009Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen
2008Jedediah S. Rogers
2007Donald D. Godfrey and Kenneth W. Godfrey
2007Michael W. Homer
2006Devery S. Anderson and Gary S. Anderson
2005John R. Sillito
2004Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton
2003Roger Robin Ekins
2002Lavina Fielding Anderson
2001David L. Bigler and Will Bagley
2000William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart
1999S. George Ellsworth
1998Will Bagley
1997Dan Vogel
1996John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius
1995Jan Shipps and John W. Welch
1994Stan Larson
1993Steven Epperson
1992Dean C. Jessee
1991Jean Bickmore White
1991S. George Ellsworth
1990Dean C. Jessee
1989Frederick Stewart Buchannan
[Change in name and funding of award]
1987John Phillip Walker
1985Dean C. Jessee
1984Scott Kenny
1982Andrew Ehat and Lyndon Cook
1981Andrew Karl Larson and Katharine Miles Larson
[Change in name of award]
1979Chad J. Flake (bibliography)
1978Davis Bitton (bibliography)
1968Thomas G. Alexander and James B. Allen (bibliography)

Best First Book

YearName
2022Christopher James Blythe
2020Konden Smith Hansen
2019[No award given]
2018Brent Rogers
Honorable Mention: Mary Campbell
2017[No award given]
2016Dave Hall
2015David J.Howlett
2014Elizabeth O. Anderson
2013J. Spencer Fluhman
2012Samuel Morris Brown
2011Benjamin C. Pykles
2010Megan Sanborn Jones
2009William P. MacKinnon
2008Matthew C. Godfrey
2007Vickie Cleverly Speek
2006Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister
2005Val D. Rust
2004Ethan Yorgason
2003Jeffrey Nichols
2002Award not given
2001Jorge Iber
[Change of name and funding of award]
2000Scott R. Christensen
1999John Alton Peterson
1998Terryl L. Givens
1997Maurine Carr Ward
1996C. Mark Hamilton
1995Armand L. Mauss
1994Lester E. Bush
1993Steven Epperson
1992Philip L. Barlow
1991Rodger I. Anderson
1990Michael Hicks
1989Larry M. Logue
1988Richard E. Bennett

Best International Book Award

YearName
2023Caroline Kline
2021Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood eds./trans.
2020[No award given]
2019James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler, and Michael W. Homer
2018[No award given]
2017Shinji Takagi
2015Marjorie Newton
2014Craig Livingston
2013Marjorie Newton
2012Hugh J. Cannon (deceased) and Reid L. Neilson
2011Raymond M. Kuehne
2010Roger P. Minert
2009Mark L. Grover
2008William G. Hartley and Lorna Call Alder
2007Reid L. Neilson and Van C. Gessell

Best Personal History / Memoir Award

YearName
2023Michael Hicks: Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s

For Articles

Best Article Award

YearName
2023Johnathan A. Stapley and David W. Grua, “Rebaptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
2022Brooke R. LeFevre, “‘I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man’: Eliza R. Snow’s Challenge to Salvific Coverture”
2021Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee, “‘President Smith has Translated a Portion’: Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates,” in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translations Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid
2020Max Perry Mueller, “The ‘Negro Problem,’ the ‘Mormon Problem,’ and the Pursuit of ‘Usefulness’ in the White American Republic”
2019Matthew McBride
2018Amy Harris
2017Amanda Hendrix-Komoto
2016Matthew Bowman
2015Andrea G. Radke-Moss
2014Ryan G. Tobler
2013Christopher C. Jones
2012Jonathan A. Stapley
2011David R. Hall
2010Samuel M. Brown
2009J. Spencer Fluhman
2008George S. Tate
2007Polly Aird
2006Stephen C. LeSuer
2005Ronald W. Walker
2004Paul H. Peterson and Ronald W. Walker
2003Ronald W. Walker
2002Richard H. Cracroft
2001Eugene England
2000Brian Q. Cannon
1999Steven C. Harper
1998Will Bagley
1997William G. Hartley
1996Roger D. Launius
1995Lance S. Owens
1994Mark R. Grandstaff
1993William G. Hartley
1992Lowell “Ben” Bennion
James B. Allen
1991Newell G. Bringhurst
Roger D. Launius
Dean R. Louder
Susan L. Fales
Mark L. Grover
1990Grant Underwood
Stan Albrecht
Edward Leo Lyman
Henry Warner Bowden
1989Ronald W. Walker
E. Gary Smith
Frederick S. Buchanan
Kahlile Mehr
1988Richard S. Van Wagoner, Steven C. Walker, and Allen D. Roberts
1987Grant Underwood
1986D. Michael Quinn
1985D. Michael Quinn
1984David John Buerger
1983Dean C. Jessee
1982Linda King Newell
1981Thomas G. Alexander (senior scholar)
Gary James Bergera (junior scholar)
1980Newell G. Bringhurst (senior)
Allen D. Roberts (junior)
1979Lester E. Bush (senior)
Eugene E. Campbell and Bruce L. Campbell (senior)
Daniel W. Bachman (junior)
1978Marvin S. Hill, C. Keith Rooker, and Larry T. Wimmer (senior)
Paul M. Edwards (senior)
Jeffrey L. Swanson (junior)
1977Thomas G. Alexander (senior)
Jill C. Mulvay (junior)
1976Davis Bitton (senior)
J. Christopher Conkling (junior)
1975D. Michael Quinn (senior)
Gordon I. Irving (junior)
[Change in name and funding of award]
1974Lester E. Bush
Eugene E. Campbell
1973Henry J. Wolfinger
1972[No award given]
1971Dean C. Jessee
1970Richard L. Anderson
1969Leonard J. Arrington and John Haupt
1968Leonard J. Arrington
1967[No award given]
1966Donald W. Meinig

Article Award of Excellence

YearName
2020William P. Connors, “Missionaries to the Mormons: NOW’s ERA Missionary Project”
2019Joseph R. Stuart
2018Jeffrey David Mahas
2017Richard E. Turley
Jeffery G Cannon
2016Garrit Dirkmaat
LaJean Purcell Carruth
2015David Walker
Christopher James Blythe
2014Matthew L Harris
Max Perry Mueller
2013Adam Jortner
Benjamin E. Park
2012Amy Hoyt and Sara M. Patterson
Patrick Q. Mason
2011Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Benjamin E. Park
2010Matthew J. Grow
Edward Leo Lyman
Morris A. Thurston
2009Matthew B. Bowman
Samuel M. Brown
2008Jacob W. Olmstead
W. Paul Reeve
2007Brian Q. Cannon
David Clark Knowlton
2006Craig Livingston
Gregory A. Prince and Gary Topping
2005Polly Aird
Roger D. Launius
2004William P. MacKinnon
Mark L. Staker
2003Stephen C. LeSueur
Jeremy Bonner
2002D. Robert Carter
Newell G. Bringhurst
[Change in name and funding of award]
2001Eugene England
Barbara J. Bernaur
Scott H. Faulring
2000Alexander L. Baugh
Kahlile Mehr
1999Richard L. Bushman
Roger C. Launius
1998Craig Lowell Foster
Roger C. Launius
1997Todd Compton
Mark R. Grandstaff
1996Glen M. Leonard
Marie Cornwall and Laga Van Beek
1995Michael W. Homer
Jan Shipps, Dean L. May, and Cheryll May
James B. Allen
1994D. Michael Quinn
Ronald K. Esplin
1993Kahlile Mehr
Marjorie A. Newton

Best International Article Award

YearName
2023Catherine S. Freeman, “Drum Rythms and Golden Scriptures: Reasons for Mormon Conversion with- in Haiti’s Culture of Vodou”
2022Ryan A. Davis, “The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938-1943”
2021David J. Howlett, “Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964-2000”
2020D. Dmitri Hurlbut, “Gobert Edet and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria, 1962–1966″
2019Erik J. Freeman
2018Lamond Tullis
2017Taunalyn Rutherford
2016Barbara Jones Brown
2015Dylan Beatty
Scott C.Esplin, E.Vance Randall, Casey P.Griffiths, and Barbara E.Morgan
2014Richard L. Jensen
2013Ronald E. Bartholomew
2012[No award given]
2011Mark L. Grover

Best Article on Mormon Women’s History Award

YearName
2023Emily Larsen and Heather Belnap, “‘Sure a Strong Devil’: Mabel Frazer, A. B. Wright, and the University of Utah Art Department’s 1937 Sexual Misconduct Case”
2022Sasha Coles, “A Common Struggle for Refinement: Mormon Women, Railroad Reconstruction, and the Politics of Respectability in Salt Lake City, 1869-1877”
2021Amy Easton-Flake and Rachel Cope, “Reconfiguring the Archive: Women and the Social Production of the Book of Mormon,” in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translations Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, ed. Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid
2020Amy Easton-Flake, “Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America”
2019Kathryn H. Shirts
2018Andrea G. Radke-Moss
2017Quincy D. Newell
2016Brent Rogers
2015Rachel Cope
2014Lisa Olsen-Tait
2013Lisa Olsen-Tait
2012Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright
2011David R. Hall

Journal of Mormon History Best Article Award

YearName
2023Mark L. Staker and Donald L. Enders, “Joseph Smith Sr.’s China Adventure”
2022W. Paul Reeve, “‘I Dug the Graves’: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions”
2021Miranda Wilcox, “Sacralizing the Secular in Latter-day Saint Salvation Histories (1830-1930)”
2020Cristina Rosetti, “Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage: The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality”
2019William G. Hartley
2018Tonya Reiter

For Dissertation, Thesis, and Student Papers

Best Dissertation Award

YearName
2023Erik Freeman, “The Mormon International: Communitarian Socialist Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1890”
2021Sasha Coles, “Homespun Respectability: Silk Worlds, Women’s Work, and the Making of Mormon Identity”
2020[No award given]
2019Megan Ann Stanton
2018Taunalyn Ford Rutherford
2017Christopher C. Smith
2016Nathan Hamilton Wiewora
2015Max Mueller
2014Brent Rogers
2013Richard D. Ouellette
2012Kenneth Robert Mulliken
2011Matthew L. Rasmussen
2010Jonathan Moyer
2009Mark Ashurst-McGee
2008Christine Talbot
2007Matthew J. Grow

Best Thesis Award

YearName
2022Brian Passantino, “Orson Pratt and the Expansion of the Doctrine and Covenants”
2020Colby Townsend, “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America”
2019[No award given]
2018Jessica Nelson
2017John Howard Brumbaugh Jr.
2016Scott Marianno
2015Joseph Stuart
2014Blair Hodges
2013Matthew Lund
2012Christopher James Blythe
2011Jill N. Crandell
Scott K. Thomas
2010Debra Marsh
Caye Wycoff
2009Zachary Ray Jones
Samuel A. Smith
2008Jeremy S. Parkin
Nathaniel S. Ricks
2007V. Gale Lewis
John Charles Duffy

Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award

YearName
2023Jaclyn Foster, “When ‘Serious Charges’ Become ‘Pathological Fantasies’: Historical Approaches to an Allegation of Sexual Assault Against J. Reuben Clark”
2022Millie Tullis, “The Logan Peep Stone Woman: Negotiating Women’s Revelation in Early Utah Mormonism”
2021Hannah Jung, “Mind Your Own Business: Nosy Neighbors and the Community Witnessing of Polygamy”
2020Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Restoration of Womankind”
2019David Dmitri Hurlbut
2018Matt Lund
2017Katherine Kitterman
2016Joseph Stuart
2015Charlotte Hansen Terry
2014Christopher James Blythe
2013Benjamin E. Park
2012Max Perry Mueller
2011Jared Tamez
2010Matthew B. Bowman
2009Matthew B. Bowman
2008Matthew B. Bowman
Stanley J. Thayne
2007Matthew Bowman
2006Matthew J. Grow
2005Jacob Olmstead
2004David Howlett
Patrick Q. Mason
2003Matthew J. Grow
2002Richard Kitchen
2001W. Paul Reeve
2000David C. Nelson
1999Steven C. Harper
1998Matthew Godfrey
1997Jana K. Riess

Best Undergraduate Paper Award

YearName
2014Bradley Kime
2013Joseph R. Stuart
2012Justin R. Bray
2011Justin R. Bray
2010Joseph T. Antley
2009Benjamin E. Park
2008John Brumbaugh
2007Christopher C. Jones
2006Stanley J. Thayne
2005Stephen Biggs
2004Julina Magnusson
2003Timothy G. Merrill
2002Daniel Stoddard McConkie Jr.
2001Matthew J. Grow
2000David P. Charles
1999Andrea Radke
1998Amy Harris
1997James Delos Gardner

For Special Contributions

Special Citations

YearName
2022Darren Parry
Newell and Jean Daines Family
2021LaJean Carruth
2020George Smith
Anna Rolapp
2019Gail Miller
Larry H. Miller (posthumously)
Kim R. Wilson
2018Cherry Bushman Silver
2017History of the Saints Production Team, incl:
Glenn Rawson
Dennis Lyman
Bryant Bush
Also received Citation for 2017: Gary Bergera
2016Aileen Clyde
2015Steven Coffey
2014Darius Gray
2013Jan Shipps
Christopher Talmage Jones
2012Marlin K. Jensen
2011David W. & Beatrice C. Evans Family
Steven F. Pratt
Ben Pratt
Juanita Brooks Family
Robert F. Parrot
Carma deJong Anderson
2010Missouri State Archives
2009Warren Archer
Brent Corcoran
G. Kevin Jones
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Newell G. Bringhurst
2008Larry and Alene King
Steve Mayfield
2007James L. Kimball
Ronald G. Watt
2006Robert A. Clark
2005James Crooks
2004[Citation not given]
2003Donald L. Enders
Ronald K. Esplin
Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black
2002Jay M. Todd
William K & DeAnn J. Sadleir
Fernando & Raymundo Gomez
2001Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen
2000G. Kevin Jones
Utah State Historical Society
1999Leonard J. Arrington
Brigham D. Madsen
1998Lee B. Groberg
Elwin C. Robison
1997L. Jackson Newell
1996David J. Whittaker
[1991-1995 Citations not given]
1990Susan L. Fales
1989David Hewett
Elwin C. Robinson
1988Richard L. Jensen
F. Henry Edwards
1987Dean L. May
Paul L. Anderson
John Horner
Jessie L. Embry
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
J. LeRoy Kimball
1986Melvin T. Smith
Florence Smith
Edith J. Romney
Eugene E. Campbell
1985LDS Museum of Church History & Art
Jeffery O. Johnson
1984Obert C. Tanner
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Richard P. Howard
1983Chesterfield Foundation
1982[Citation not given]
1981Glen M. Leonard
Maurice L. Draper and Clare D. Vlahos
1980Ensign
LDS Church Historical Department
1979Gustive O. Larsen
T. Edgar Lyon
BYU Press
Graceland College
1978Edward L. Kimball and Andrew E. Kimball
1977Robert L. Flanders
Mormon Studies
First Presidency, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Duane Bunnel
1976First Presidency, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
First Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Juanita Brooks
1975Kenneth W. Godfrey
Kenneth E. Stobaugh
Ralph Tate Jr.
T. Edgar Lyon
George S. Tanner
1974William D. Russell
Andrew Karl Larson
Alma R. Blair
1973[Citation not given]
1972John James Jr.
[1970-1971 Citations not given]
1969Editors of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and BYU Studies
Earl E. Olsen

Discontinued Awards

For Service

Thomas L. Kane Award

YearName
2011[No award given]
2010Senator Christopher S. “Kit” Bond
2009Anne M. Burke and Daniel J. Burke
2008William P. MacKinnon
2007Robert A. Goldberg
2006Elizabeth G. Dulany
2005Howard R. Lamar
2004Jere Krakow and Kay Threlkeld
2003Mario Marcopoli
2002William Ryder Ridgeway
Ronald E. Loving
Bradford R. Cole
2001Anatoly M. Kolodny
2000Janusz Wolinski
1999Theodore J. Kindred

Certificate of Merit

YearName
2006Benjamin P. Allred
2005[Certificate not given]
2004Douglas Geilman
2003Shawn Callahn
2002Jedediah S. Rogers
For Books

Best Family / Community History Award

YearName
2015Donna Toland Smart
2014Matthew Kester
2013Stephen G. Schwendiman
2012William G. Hartley
2011Leslie Albrecht Huber
[Change in name and funding of award:]
2010Richard C. Roberts
2009Wendall Walton with Hilary Hendricks
2008Clifford Stott
2007R. Carl Harris
2006No award given
2005Stephen L. Prince
2004William G. Hartley

Special Merit Citation Book Award

YearName
2003Glen M. Leonard

Francis M. Chipman Award to Outstanding Young Scholar

YearName
1986Breck England
1985Clifford L. Stott
1984Kenneth L. Cannon
For Articles

BYU Women’s Research Institute Best Article Award

YearName
1997Jill Mulvay Derr
1996Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
1995Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage
1994[No award given]
1993Linda Thatcher
1992Lola Van Wagenen
1991Carol Cornwall Madsen
1990Sherilyn Cox Bennion

Editor’s Award for Best Manuscript Submitted to the Journal of Mormon History

YearName
1993Ronald W. Walker
1992Douglas F. Tobler
1991Carol Cornwall Madsen
1990Glen M. Leonard
1989Paul H. Peterson

Best Article Award

YearName
1973Paul M. Edwards
For Dissertation, Thesis, and Student Papers

Best Dissertation or Thesis

YearName
2000Richard Ian Kimball
1999Marjorie A. Newton
1998Janet Ellingson
1997Alexander L. Baugh
1996[No award given]
1995Lola Van Wagenen
1994Isleta L. Pement
1994William P. Connors
1993Carma de Jong Anderson
1992Steven Epperson
1991Irene M. Bates
1990Grant Underwood
1989Philip L. Barlow
1988Marjorie Newton
1987Bruce A. Van Orden
1986Carol Cornwall Madsen
1986Rex Cooper
1985Richard E. Bennett
1984Valeen Tippetts Avery
1983Edward Leo Lyman

Outstanding Graduate Student Award

YearName
1981Michael Guy Bishop
1980[No award given]
1979Steven L. Olsen
1978David J. Whittaker