2023 Awards

Individual Awards

Leonard J. Arrington Award: Gregory Prince

Special Citation: The Joseph Smith Papers AND Jessie Embry

Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award: Norbert Kalogo Ounleu
Church History Fairs in West Africa

Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award: Newbury, England Ward
Newbury, England Ward 180th Anniversary History Project

Best Indigenous Studies Award: Thomas Murphy, Simon Southerton and Angelo Baca, “Science and Fiction: Kennewick Man/ Ancient One in Latter-day Saint Discourse“

Book Awards

Best Book: K. Mohrman, Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press)

Best Biography: Ronald V. Huggins, Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism (Signature Books)

Best Personal History / Memoir: Michael Hicks, Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s (Signature Books)

Best Book on International Mormon History: Caroline Kline, Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness (University of Illinois Press)

Article Awards

Best Article: Johnathan A. Stapley and David W. Grua, “Rebaptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (BYU Studies Quarterly)

Best Article on Women’s History: Emily 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” (Utah Historical Quarterly)

Best Article on International Mormonism: Catherine S. Freeman, “Drum Rythms and Golden Scriptures: Reasons for Mormon Conversion with- in Haiti’s Culture of Vodou” (Dialogue)

Best Article in the Journal of Mormon History: Mark L. Staker and Donald L. Enders, “Joseph Smith Sr.’s China Adventure” (Journal of Mormon History)

Student Awards

Best Dissertation: Erik Freeman, “The Mormon International: Communitarian Socialist Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1890”

Best Unpublished Graduate Student Paper: Jaclyn Foster, “When ‘Serious Charges’ Become ‘Pathological Fantasies’: Historical Approaches to an Allegation of Sexual Assault Against J. Reuben Clark” (University of Montana)

B.H. Roberts Grant

Jennifer Roach: “Placing the church’s response to sexual abuse in a broader historical context.”

Venice Jardine: “I’ll Stay Where You Want Me to Stay”: How Latter-day Saints Navigate Doubt and Divergent Beliefs While Remaining Committed to Their Faith”

Randy Astle: “Mormon Cinema: 1953 to 2023”