2026 Awards

Leonard J. Arrington Award

George D. Smith

Best Book Award

Lisa Olson Tait, Amber Taylor, Kate Holbrook, and James Goldberg

Carry On: The Latter-day Saint Young Women’s Organization, 1870–2024. The Church Historians Press.

Ella L. Turner Award for Best Biography

Brian Cannon

Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay. Signature Books.

Best First Book Award

Brooke Kathleen Brassard

Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints. University of Toronto Press.

Best Documentary Editing/Bibliography Award

Gary Bergera

Educating Zion: The Diaries of Ernest L. Wilkinson. Signature Books.

Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award

Berkeley Ward Centennial Celebration, 1925–2025

Best Indigenous Studies Award

Elise Boxer

Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite. University of Oklahoma Press.

Jan Shipps Best Article Award

Cathy Gilmore

“Health and Healing on the Latter-Saint Peripheries”. Utah Historical Quarterly.

Lavina Fielding Anderson Award for Best Article in the Journal of Mormon History

Elwin C. Robison

“Obediah Taylor’s Salt Lake Assembly Hall”

Best Article on Mormon Women’s History

Brooke LeFevre

“A Childless Woman Like Myself’: Polygamy, Patriarchy, and Reproductive Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women’s Infertility”. Utah Historical Quarterly.

Best International Article Award

Frode Ulvund

“Resistance and Intervention in the Contact Zone: Mormon Missionaries as Organizational Migrants in Norway circa 1900”. Journal of Mormon History.

D. Michael Quinn Best Thesis Award

Garrett R. Elkins

“Making Peace Among the People: The Development of Brigham Young’s Political Thought and Activity, 1836–1846”. Utah State University.

Martha Bradley Evans Best Unpublished Graduate Student Paper Award

Elizabeth Mawlam

“The State of the Field of Global Mormon Studies”. Claremont Graduate University.wbury, England Ward
Newbury, England Ward 180th Anniversary History Project