Awards
Past Awards
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
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Marlin K. Jensen |
| 2024 | Ronald K. Esplin |
| 2023 | Gregory Prince |
| 2022 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| 2021 | Newell Bringhurst |
| 2020 | Richard E. Turley Jr. |
| 2019 | Kathleen Flake |
| 2018 | Gary James Bergera |
| 2017 | Jill Mulvay Derr |
| 2016 | D. Michael Quinn |
| 2015 | Nestor Esteban Curbelo Armando |
| 2014 | Ron Romig |
| 2013 | Martha Bradley Evans |
| 2012 | William G. Hartley |
| 2011 | Carol Cornwall Madsen |
| 2010 | “Richard Lyman Bushman |
| Claudia Lauper Bushman” | |
| 2009 | Edward Leo Lyman |
| 2008 | James B. Allen |
| 2007 | Davis Bitton |
| 2006 | Steven R. Sorensen |
| 2005 | Donald L. Enders |
| 2004 | Jessie L. Embry |
| 2003 | Milton V. Backman Jr. |
| 2002 | William A. “Bert” Wilson |
| 2001 | LaMar C. Berrett |
| 2000 | Larry C. Porter |
| Change in name of the award: Grace Fort Arrington Award for Historical Excellence | |
| 1998 | Elizabeth “Liz” Dulany |
| 1997 | William A. “Bert” Wilson |
| 1996 | [No award given] |
| 1995 | Armand L. Mauss |
| 1994 | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher |
| 1993 | Glen M. Leonard |
| 1992 | Stanley B. Kimball |
| 1991 | Lavina Fielding Anderson |
| 1990 | “Thomas G. Alexander |
| William Grover | |
| Winifred Foster Reese” | |
| 1989 | Richard P. Howard |
| 1988 | George Ellsworth |
| 1987 | David Whittaker |
| 1986 | Jan Shipps |
| 1985 | Gordon Irving |
| 1984 | Peggy Fletcher and Sunstone |
| 1983 | Ronald Walker |
| 1982 | Dean Jessee |
Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Global Histories Project, The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| 2024 | Rachel Helps: Mormon History Wikipedia Project |
| 2023 | Norbert Kalogo Ounleu: Church History Fairs in West Africa |
| Newbury, England Ward: Newbury, England Ward 180th Anniversary History Project | |
| 2022 | Century of Black Mormons |
Best Indigenous Studies Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Hemopereki Simon |
| 2024 | Erika M. Bsumek |
| 2023 | Thomas Murphy, Simon Southerton and Angelo Baca |
B.H. Roberts Grant
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Ben Spackman |
| Ryan A. Davis | |
| Emily Peterson | |
| 2024 | Spencer Wells and Isaac Barnes May |
| El Call | |
| Makoto Hunter | |
| 2023 | Jennifer Roach |
| Venice Jardine | |
| Randy Astle |
For Books
Best Book Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich Jr., and LaJean Purcell Carruth, This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah (Oxford University Press) |
| 2024 | Stephen C. Taysom, Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith |
| 2023 | K. Mohrman, Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism |
| 2022 | Adam Jortner, No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America |
| 2021 | Benjamin 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 | |
| 2020 | David Walker, Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West |
| 2019 | Jonathan A. Stapley, The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology |
| 2018 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 |
| 2017 | Thomas W. Simpson, American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism |
| 2016 | W. Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness |
| 2015 | Russell W. Stevenson, For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism |
| 2014 | J.B.Haws, The Mormon Image in the American Mind |
| 2013 | Brandon Plewe, S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History |
| 2012 | Terryl L. Givens and Matthew J. Grow, Parley P. Pratt: The Apostle Paul of Mormonism |
| 2011 | Mark Lyman Staker, Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith’s Ohio Revelations |
| 2010 | Matthew J. Grow, “Liberty to the Downtrodden”: Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer |
| 2009 | Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Glen M. Leonard, Massacre at Mountain Meadows: An American Tragedy |
| 2008 | Terryl L. Givens, People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture |
| 2007 | Carol Cornwall Madsen, Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History |
| 2006 | Richard L. Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling |
| 2005 | Kathleen Flake, The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle |
| 2004 | Armand Mauss, All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage |
| 2003 | Sarah Barringer Gordon, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-century America |
| 2002 | Kathryn M. Daynes, More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 |
| 2001 | Jan Shipps, Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons |
| 2000 | Davis Bitton, George Q. Cannon: A Biography |
| 1999 | Ronald W. Walker, Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young |
| 1998 | Todd Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith |
| 1997 | Irene M. Bates and E. Gary Smith, Lost Legacy: The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch |
| 1996 | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow |
| 1995 | Dean L. May, Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West |
| 1994 | Grant Underwood, The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism |
| 1993 | B. Carmon Hardy, Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage |
| 1992 | Thomas G. Alexander, Things in Heaven and Earth: The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet |
| 1991 | Roger Launius, Father Figure: Joseph Smith III and the Creation of the Reorganized Church |
| 1990 | Marvin S. Hill, Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism |
| 1989 | Levi S. Peterson, Juanita Brooks: Mormon Woman Historian |
| 1988 | D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View |
| 1987 | Thomas G. Alexander, Mormonism in Transition: A History of Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930 |
| 1986 | Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses |
| 1985 | Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith |
| 1984 | D. Michael Quinn, J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years |
| 1983 | Juanita Brooks, Quicksand and Cactus: A Memoir of the Southern Mormon Frontier |
| 1982 | Lawrence 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] |
| 1980 | Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton, The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-day Saints |
| 1979 | Richard H. Jackson, The Mormon Role in the Settlement of the West |
| 1978 | [No award given] |
| 1977 | Leonard J. Arrington, Feramorz Y. Fox, and Dean L. May, Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation Among Mormons |
| 1976 | Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill, Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith |
| 1975 | Dean C. Jessee, Letters of Brigham Young to his Sons |
| 1974 | Charles S. Peterson, Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900 |
| 1973 | S. George Ellsworth, Utah’s Heritage |
| 1972 | [No award given] |
| 1971 | Gustive O. Larson, The “Americanization” of Utah for Statehood |
| 1970 | Richard P. Howard, Restoration Scriptures: A Study of Their Textual Development |
| 1969 | [No award given] |
| 1968 | Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History |
| 1967 | [No award given] |
| 1966 | Robert Bruce Flanders, Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi |
| James L. Haseltine, 100 Years of Utah Painting |
Best Biography Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Cristina Rosetti |
| 2024 | McKay Coppins |
| 2023 | Ronald V. Huggins |
| 2022 | Virginia Kerns |
| 2021 | Elisa Eastwood Pulido |
| 2020 | Quincy Newell |
| 2019 | Daniel P. Stone |
| 2018 | Carol Cornwall Madsen |
| 2017 | Stephen L Prince |
| 2016 | Ronald Romig |
| 2015 | Julie Debra Neuffer |
| 2014 | Todd Compton |
| 2013 | John G. Turner |
| 2012 | Veda Tebbs Hale |
| 2011 | No award given |
| 2010 | Polly Aird |
| 2009 | William B. Smart |
| 2009 | Gary Topping |
| 2008 | Frederick H. Swanson |
| 2007 | Levi S. Peterson |
| 2006 | Gregory A. Prince and William Robert Wright |
| 2005 | Dan Vogel |
| 2004 | Alan K. Parrish |
| 2003 | Boyd Jay Peterson |
| 2002 | Ronald O. Barney |
| 2001 | Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage Woodward |
| 2000 | Newell G. Bringhurst |
| 1999 | Valeen Tippetts Avery |
| 1998 | Andrew F. Smith |
| 1997 | No award given |
| 1996 | Mary L. Bradford |
| 1995 | Richard Van Wagoner |
| 1994 | No award given |
| 1993 | Maria S. Ellsworth |
| 1992 | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher |
| 1991 | Milton R. Merrill |
Best Documentary Editing / Bibliography Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Todd M. Compton |
| 2022 | Elizabeth A. Kuehn, Matthew C. Godfrey, Jordan T. Watkins, and Mason K. Allred |
| 2020 | Gary Bergera |
| 2019 | [No award given] |
| 2018 | Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow |
| 2017 | [No award given] |
| 2016 | Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen |
| 2015 | Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson |
| 2014 | Michael Hubbard MacKay, Garrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J, Woodford, William G. Hartley, Matthew Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee |
| 2013 | Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark R. Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen |
| 2012 | John S. Dinger |
| 2011 | Edward Leo Lyman |
| 2010 | Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lynn Davidson |
| 2010 | Richard E. Turley and Ronald W. Walker |
| 2009 | Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen |
| 2008 | Jedediah S. Rogers |
| 2007 | Donald D. Godfrey and Kenneth W. Godfrey |
| 2007 | Michael W. Homer |
| 2006 | Devery S. Anderson and Gary S. Anderson |
| 2005 | John R. Sillito |
| 2004 | Charles M. Hatch and Todd M. Compton |
| 2003 | Roger Robin Ekins |
| 2002 | Lavina Fielding Anderson |
| 2001 | David L. Bigler and Will Bagley |
| 2000 | William B. Smart and Donna T. Smart |
| 1999 | S. George Ellsworth |
| 1998 | Will Bagley |
| 1997 | Dan Vogel |
| 1996 | John E. Hallwas and Roger D. Launius |
| 1995 | Jan Shipps and John W. Welch |
| 1994 | Stan Larson |
| 1993 | Steven Epperson |
| 1992 | Dean C. Jessee |
| 1991 | Jean Bickmore White |
| 1991 | S. George Ellsworth |
| 1990 | Dean C. Jessee |
| 1989 | Frederick Stewart Buchannan |
| [Change in name and funding of award] | |
| 1987 | John Phillip Walker |
| 1985 | Dean C. Jessee |
| 1984 | Scott Kenny |
| 1982 | Andrew Ehat and Lyndon Cook |
| 1981 | Andrew Karl Larson and Katharine Miles Larson |
| [Change in name of award] | |
| 1979 | Chad J. Flake (bibliography) |
| 1978 | Davis Bitton (bibliography) |
| 1968 | Thomas G. Alexander and James B. Allen (bibliography) |
Best First Book
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Janiece Johnson |
| 2022 | Christopher James Blythe |
| 2020 | Konden Smith Hansen |
| 2019 | [No award given] |
| 2018 | Brent Rogers |
| Honorable Mention: Mary Campbell | |
| 2017 | [No award given] |
| 2016 | Dave Hall |
| 2015 | David J.Howlett |
| 2014 | Elizabeth O. Anderson |
| 2013 | J. Spencer Fluhman |
| 2012 | Samuel Morris Brown |
| 2011 | Benjamin C. Pykles |
| 2010 | Megan Sanborn Jones |
| 2009 | William P. MacKinnon |
| 2008 | Matthew C. Godfrey |
| 2007 | Vickie Cleverly Speek |
| 2006 | Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister |
| 2005 | Val D. Rust |
| 2004 | Ethan Yorgason |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Nichols |
| 2002 | Award not given |
| 2001 | Jorge Iber |
| [Change of name and funding of award] | |
| 2000 | Scott R. Christensen |
| 1999 | John Alton Peterson |
| 1998 | Terryl L. Givens |
| 1997 | Maurine Carr Ward |
| 1996 | C. Mark Hamilton |
| 1995 | Armand L. Mauss |
| 1994 | Lester E. Bush |
| 1993 | Steven Epperson |
| 1992 | Philip L. Barlow |
| 1991 | Rodger I. Anderson |
| 1990 | Michael Hicks |
| 1989 | Larry M. Logue |
| 1988 | Richard E. Bennett |
Best International Book Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Jason Palmer |
| 2023 | Caroline Kline |
| 2021 | Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood eds./trans. |
| 2020 | [No award given] |
| 2019 | James A. Toronto, Eric R. Dursteler, and Michael W. Homer |
| 2018 | [No award given] |
| 2017 | Shinji Takagi |
| 2015 | Marjorie Newton |
| 2014 | Craig Livingston |
| 2013 | Marjorie Newton |
| 2012 | Hugh J. Cannon (deceased) and Reid L. Neilson |
| 2011 | Raymond M. Kuehne |
| 2010 | Roger P. Minert |
| 2009 | Mark L. Grover |
| 2008 | William G. Hartley and Lorna Call Alder |
| 2007 | Reid L. Neilson and Van C. Gessell |
Best Personal History / Memoir Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Claudia Bushman I, Claudia: The Life of Claudia Lauper Bushman in Her Own Words |
| 2023 | Michael Hicks: Wineskin: Freakin’ Jesus in the ‘60s and ‘70s |
For Articles
Best Article Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Nicholas B. Shrum, “The Unseen Power of the NCCS Pocket Constitution in American Religion,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought |
| 2024 | Janiece Johnson and Quincy D. Newell, “Not Only the Gentiles, but Also to the African’: Samuel Chambers and Scripture” |
| 2023 | Johnathan A. Stapley and David W. Grua, “Rebaptism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” |
| 2022 | Brooke R. LeFevre, “‘I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man’: Eliza R. Snow’s Challenge to Salvific Coverture” |
| 2021 | Don 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 |
| 2020 | Max Perry Mueller, “The ‘Negro Problem,’ the ‘Mormon Problem,’ and the Pursuit of ‘Usefulness’ in the White American Republic” |
| 2019 | Matthew McBride |
| 2018 | Amy Harris |
| 2017 | Amanda Hendrix-Komoto |
| 2016 | Matthew Bowman |
| 2015 | Andrea G. Radke-Moss |
| 2014 | Ryan G. Tobler |
| 2013 | Christopher C. Jones |
| 2012 | Jonathan A. Stapley |
| 2011 | David R. Hall |
| 2010 | Samuel M. Brown |
| 2009 | J. Spencer Fluhman |
| 2008 | George S. Tate |
| 2007 | Polly Aird |
| 2006 | Stephen C. LeSuer |
| 2005 | Ronald W. Walker |
| 2004 | Paul H. Peterson and Ronald W. Walker |
| 2003 | Ronald W. Walker |
| 2002 | Richard H. Cracroft |
| 2001 | Eugene England |
| 2000 | Brian Q. Cannon |
| 1999 | Steven C. Harper |
| 1998 | Will Bagley |
| 1997 | William G. Hartley |
| 1996 | Roger D. Launius |
| 1995 | Lance S. Owens |
| 1994 | Mark R. Grandstaff |
| 1993 | William G. Hartley |
| 1992 | Lowell “Ben” Bennion |
| James B. Allen | |
| 1991 | Newell G. Bringhurst |
| Roger D. Launius | |
| Dean R. Louder | |
| Susan L. Fales | |
| Mark L. Grover | |
| 1990 | Grant Underwood |
| Stan Albrecht | |
| Edward Leo Lyman | |
| Henry Warner Bowden | |
| 1989 | Ronald W. Walker |
| E. Gary Smith | |
| Frederick S. Buchanan | |
| Kahlile Mehr | |
| 1988 | Richard S. Van Wagoner, Steven C. Walker, and Allen D. Roberts |
| 1987 | Grant Underwood |
| 1986 | D. Michael Quinn |
| 1985 | D. Michael Quinn |
| 1984 | David John Buerger |
| 1983 | Dean C. Jessee |
| 1982 | Linda King Newell |
| 1981 | Thomas G. Alexander (senior scholar) |
| Gary James Bergera (junior scholar) | |
| 1980 | Newell G. Bringhurst (senior) |
| Allen D. Roberts (junior) | |
| 1979 | Lester E. Bush (senior) |
| Eugene E. Campbell and Bruce L. Campbell (senior) | |
| Daniel W. Bachman (junior) | |
| 1978 | Marvin S. Hill, C. Keith Rooker, and Larry T. Wimmer (senior) |
| Paul M. Edwards (senior) | |
| Jeffrey L. Swanson (junior) | |
| 1977 | Thomas G. Alexander (senior) |
| Jill C. Mulvay (junior) | |
| 1976 | Davis Bitton (senior) |
| J. Christopher Conkling (junior) | |
| 1975 | D. Michael Quinn (senior) |
| Gordon I. Irving (junior) | |
| [Change in name and funding of award] | |
| 1974 | Lester E. Bush |
| Eugene E. Campbell | |
| 1973 | Henry J. Wolfinger |
| 1972 | [No award given] |
| 1971 | Dean C. Jessee |
| 1970 | Richard L. Anderson |
| 1969 | Leonard J. Arrington and John Haupt |
| 1968 | Leonard J. Arrington |
| 1967 | [No award given] |
| 1966 | Donald W. Meinig |
Article Award of Excellence
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2020 | William P. Connors, “Missionaries to the Mormons: NOW’s ERA Missionary Project” |
| 2019 | Joseph R. Stuart |
| 2018 | Jeffrey David Mahas |
| 2017 | Richard E. Turley |
| Jeffery G Cannon | |
| 2016 | Garrit Dirkmaat |
| LaJean Purcell Carruth | |
| 2015 | David Walker |
| Christopher James Blythe | |
| 2014 | Matthew L Harris |
| Max Perry Mueller | |
| 2013 | Adam Jortner |
| Benjamin E. Park | |
| 2012 | Amy Hoyt and Sara M. Patterson |
| Patrick Q. Mason | |
| 2011 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| Benjamin E. Park | |
| 2010 | Matthew J. Grow |
| Edward Leo Lyman | |
| Morris A. Thurston | |
| 2009 | Matthew B. Bowman |
| Samuel M. Brown | |
| 2008 | Jacob W. Olmstead |
| W. Paul Reeve | |
| 2007 | Brian Q. Cannon |
| David Clark Knowlton | |
| 2006 | Craig Livingston |
| Gregory A. Prince and Gary Topping | |
| 2005 | Polly Aird |
| Roger D. Launius | |
| 2004 | William P. MacKinnon |
| Mark L. Staker | |
| 2003 | Stephen C. LeSueur |
| Jeremy Bonner | |
| 2002 | D. Robert Carter |
| Newell G. Bringhurst | |
| [Change in name and funding of award] | |
| 2001 | Eugene England |
| Barbara J. Bernaur | |
| Scott H. Faulring | |
| 2000 | Alexander L. Baugh |
| Kahlile Mehr | |
| 1999 | Richard L. Bushman |
| Roger C. Launius | |
| 1998 | Craig Lowell Foster |
| Roger C. Launius | |
| 1997 | Todd Compton |
| Mark R. Grandstaff | |
| 1996 | Glen M. Leonard |
| Marie Cornwall and Laga Van Beek | |
| 1995 | Michael W. Homer |
| Jan Shipps, Dean L. May, and Cheryll May | |
| James B. Allen | |
| 1994 | D. Michael Quinn |
| Ronald K. Esplin | |
| 1993 | Kahlile Mehr |
| Marjorie A. Newton | |
Best International Article Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Michelle Graabek, “‘Regarding the Mormons’: Danish Luteran Pastors’ Reports to the Bishop of Zealand on Latter-day Saints in 1854,” Journal of Mormon History |
| 2024 | Dima Hurlbut, “‘Social Projects’ and the RLDS Church’s Mission in Southeastern Nigeria, 1966-1977” |
| 2023 | Catherine S. Freeman, “Drum Rythms and Golden Scriptures: Reasons for Mormon Conversion with- in Haiti’s Culture of Vodou” |
| 2022 | Ryan A. Davis, “The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938-1943” |
| 2021 | David J. Howlett, “Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964-2000” |
| 2020 | D. Dmitri Hurlbut, “Gobert Edet and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria, 1962–1966″ |
| 2019 | Erik J. Freeman |
| 2018 | Lamond Tullis |
| 2017 | Taunalyn Rutherford |
| 2016 | Barbara Jones Brown |
| 2015 | Dylan Beatty |
| Scott C.Esplin, E.Vance Randall, Casey P.Griffiths, and Barbara E.Morgan | |
| 2014 | Richard L. Jensen |
| 2013 | Ronald E. Bartholomew |
| 2012 | [No award given] |
| 2011 | Mark L. Grover |
Best Article on Mormon Women’s History Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Emily Crumpton-Deason, “Mammy Chloe: Removing Fiction from Nonfictional Family Stories,” Utah Historical Quarterly |
| 2024 | David Howlett and Nancy Ross, “Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women’s Ordination Advocacy in America” |
| 2023 | 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” |
| 2022 | Sasha Coles, “A Common Struggle for Refinement: Mormon Women, Railroad Reconstruction, and the Politics of Respectability in Salt Lake City, 1869-1877” |
| 2021 | Amy 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 |
| 2020 | Amy Easton-Flake, “Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America” |
| 2019 | Kathryn H. Shirts |
| 2018 | Andrea G. Radke-Moss |
| 2017 | Quincy D. Newell |
| 2016 | Brent Rogers |
| 2015 | Rachel Cope |
| 2014 | Lisa Olsen-Tait |
| 2013 | Lisa Olsen-Tait |
| 2012 | Jonathan A. Stapley and Kristine Wright |
| 2011 | David R. Hall |
Journal of Mormon History Best Article Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Katie Ludlow Rich “The Shadow Succession Crisis: Challenging the Claim that Brigham Young Disbanded the Relief Society in 1845,” Journal of Mormon History |
| 2024 | Jordan T. Watkins, “Slavery, Early Latter-day Saint Constitutionalism, and the Limits of the Right to Petition” |
| 2023 | Mark L. Staker and Donald L. Enders, “Joseph Smith Sr.’s China Adventure” |
| 2022 | W. Paul Reeve, “‘I Dug the Graves’: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions” |
| 2021 | Miranda Wilcox, “Sacralizing the Secular in Latter-day Saint Salvation Histories (1830-1930)” |
| 2020 | Cristina Rosetti, “Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage: The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality” |
| 2019 | William G. Hartley |
| 2018 | Tonya Reiter |
For Dissertation, Thesis, and Student Papers
Best Dissertation Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Sherilyn Farnes, “‘A Series of Doors Pretending to be Walls’: Boundaries of Race, Identity, and Geography in the Western Missouri Borderlands, 1803-1833.” |
| 2023 | Erik Freeman, “The Mormon International: Communitarian Socialist Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1890” |
| 2021 | Sasha Coles, “Homespun Respectability: Silk Worlds, Women’s Work, and the Making of Mormon Identity” |
| 2020 | [No award given] |
| 2019 | Megan Ann Stanton |
| 2018 | Taunalyn Ford Rutherford |
| 2017 | Christopher C. Smith |
| 2016 | Nathan Hamilton Wiewora |
| 2015 | Max Mueller |
| 2014 | Brent Rogers |
| 2013 | Richard D. Ouellette |
| 2012 | Kenneth Robert Mulliken |
| 2011 | Matthew L. Rasmussen |
| 2010 | Jonathan Moyer |
| 2009 | Mark Ashurst-McGee |
| 2008 | Christine Talbot |
| 2007 | Matthew J. Grow |
Best Thesis Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Hovan T. Lawton, “Central American Saints: The Formation and Preservation of Latter-day Saint Community and Identity in El Salvador and Guatemala, 1960-1992” |
| 2022 | Brian Passantino, “Orson Pratt and the Expansion of the Doctrine and Covenants” |
| 2020 | Colby Townsend, “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America” |
| 2019 | [No award given] |
| 2018 | Jessica Nelson |
| 2017 | John Howard Brumbaugh Jr. |
| 2016 | Scott Marianno |
| 2015 | Joseph Stuart |
| 2014 | Blair Hodges |
| 2013 | Matthew Lund |
| 2012 | Christopher James Blythe |
| 2011 | Jill N. Crandell |
| Scott K. Thomas | |
| 2010 | Debra Marsh |
| Caye Wycoff | |
| 2009 | Zachary Ray Jones |
| Samuel A. Smith | |
| 2008 | Jeremy S. Parkin |
| Nathaniel S. Ricks | |
| 2007 | V. Gale Lewis |
| John Charles Duffy |
Best Unpublished Graduate Paper Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Elizabeth Mawlam, “‘I am not restricted in any way—I have a latch key of my own and go in and out at pleasure’: One British Woman’s Conversion at the Intersection of Edwardian Evangelicalism and Post-Polygamous Mormonism” |
| 2024 | Nicholas Shrum, “‘The Lord Had it Fixed Up for Me to Become a Mormon’: Carey C. Bowles’ Religious Citizenship within 1960s Mormonism” |
| 2023 | Jaclyn Foster, “When ‘Serious Charges’ Become ‘Pathological Fantasies’: Historical Approaches to an Allegation of Sexual Assault Against J. Reuben Clark” |
| 2022 | Millie Tullis, “The Logan Peep Stone Woman: Negotiating Women’s Revelation in Early Utah Mormonism” |
| 2021 | Hannah Jung, “Mind Your Own Business: Nosy Neighbors and the Community Witnessing of Polygamy” |
| 2020 | Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Restoration of Womankind” |
| 2019 | David Dmitri Hurlbut |
| 2018 | Matt Lund |
| 2017 | Katherine Kitterman |
| 2016 | Joseph Stuart |
| 2015 | Charlotte Hansen Terry |
| 2014 | Christopher James Blythe |
| 2013 | Benjamin E. Park |
| 2012 | Max Perry Mueller |
| 2011 | Jared Tamez |
| 2010 | Matthew B. Bowman |
| 2009 | Matthew B. Bowman |
| 2008 | Matthew B. Bowman |
| Stanley J. Thayne | |
| 2007 | Matthew Bowman |
| 2006 | Matthew J. Grow |
| 2005 | Jacob Olmstead |
| 2004 | David Howlett |
| Patrick Q. Mason | |
| 2003 | Matthew J. Grow |
| 2002 | Richard Kitchen |
| 2001 | W. Paul Reeve |
| 2000 | David C. Nelson |
| 1999 | Steven C. Harper |
| 1998 | Matthew Godfrey |
| 1997 | Jana K. Riess |
Best Undergraduate Paper Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2014 | Bradley Kime |
| 2013 | Joseph R. Stuart |
| 2012 | Justin R. Bray |
| 2011 | Justin R. Bray |
| 2010 | Joseph T. Antley |
| 2009 | Benjamin E. Park |
| 2008 | John Brumbaugh |
| 2007 | Christopher C. Jones |
| 2006 | Stanley J. Thayne |
| 2005 | Stephen Biggs |
| 2004 | Julina Magnusson |
| 2003 | Timothy G. Merrill |
| 2002 | Daniel Stoddard McConkie Jr. |
| 2001 | Matthew J. Grow |
| 2000 | David P. Charles |
| 1999 | Andrea Radke |
| 1998 | Amy Harris |
| 1997 | James Delos Gardner |
For Special Contributions
Special Citations
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Community of Christ |
| City of Kirtland, Ohio | |
| 2021 | LaJean Carruth |
| 2022 | Darren Parry |
| Newell and Jean Daines Family | |
| 2021 | LaJean Carruth |
| 2020 | George Smith |
| Anna Rolapp | |
| 2019 | Gail Miller |
| Larry H. Miller (posthumously) | |
| Kim R. Wilson | |
| 2018 | Cherry Bushman Silver |
| 2017 | History of the Saints Production Team, incl: |
| Glenn Rawson | |
| Dennis Lyman | |
| Bryant Bush | |
| Also received Citation for 2017: Gary Bergera | |
| 2016 | Aileen Clyde |
| 2015 | Steven Coffey |
| 2014 | Darius Gray |
| 2013 | Jan Shipps |
| Christopher Talmage Jones | |
| 2012 | Marlin K. Jensen |
| 2011 | David W. & Beatrice C. Evans Family |
| Steven F. Pratt | |
| Ben Pratt | |
| Juanita Brooks Family | |
| Robert F. Parrot | |
| Carma deJong Anderson | |
| 2010 | Missouri State Archives |
| 2009 | Warren Archer |
| Brent Corcoran | |
| G. Kevin Jones | |
| Lavina Fielding Anderson | |
| Newell G. Bringhurst | |
| 2008 | Larry and Alene King |
| Steve Mayfield | |
| 2007 | James L. Kimball |
| Ronald G. Watt | |
| 2006 | Robert A. Clark |
| 2005 | James Crooks |
| 2004 | [Citation not given] |
| 2003 | Donald L. Enders |
| Ronald K. Esplin | |
| Harvey B. and Susan Easton Black | |
| 2002 | Jay M. Todd |
| William K & DeAnn J. Sadleir | |
| Fernando & Raymundo Gomez | |
| 2001 | Ronald W. Walker, David J. Whittaker, and James B. Allen |
| 2000 | G. Kevin Jones |
| Utah State Historical Society | |
| 1999 | Leonard J. Arrington |
| Brigham D. Madsen | |
| 1998 | Lee B. Groberg |
| Elwin C. Robison | |
| 1997 | L. Jackson Newell |
| 1996 | David J. Whittaker |
| [1991-1995 Citations not given] | |
| 1990 | Susan L. Fales |
| 1989 | David Hewett |
| Elwin C. Robinson | |
| 1988 | Richard L. Jensen |
| F. Henry Edwards | |
| 1987 | Dean L. May |
| Paul L. Anderson | |
| John Horner | |
| Jessie L. Embry | |
| Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought | |
| J. LeRoy Kimball | |
| 1986 | Melvin T. Smith |
| Florence Smith | |
| Edith J. Romney | |
| Eugene E. Campbell | |
| 1985 | LDS Museum of Church History & Art |
| Jeffery O. Johnson | |
| 1984 | Obert C. Tanner |
| Lavina Fielding Anderson | |
| Richard P. Howard | |
| 1983 | Chesterfield Foundation |
| 1982 | [Citation not given] |
| 1981 | Glen M. Leonard |
| Maurice L. Draper and Clare D. Vlahos | |
| 1980 | Ensign |
| LDS Church Historical Department | |
| 1979 | Gustive O. Larsen |
| T. Edgar Lyon | |
| BYU Press | |
| Graceland College | |
| 1978 | Edward L. Kimball and Andrew E. Kimball |
| 1977 | Robert L. Flanders |
| Mormon Studies | |
| First Presidency, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints | |
| Duane Bunnel | |
| 1976 | First Presidency, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints |
| First Presidency, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | |
| Juanita Brooks | |
| 1975 | Kenneth W. Godfrey |
| Kenneth E. Stobaugh | |
| Ralph Tate Jr. | |
| T. Edgar Lyon | |
| George S. Tanner | |
| 1974 | William D. Russell |
| Andrew Karl Larson | |
| Alma R. Blair | |
| 1973 | [Citation not given] |
| 1972 | John James Jr. |
| [1970-1971 Citations not given] | |
| 1969 | Editors of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and BYU Studies |
| Earl E. Olsen | |
Discontinued Awards
For Service
Thomas L. Kane Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2011 | [No award given] |
| 2010 | Senator Christopher S. “Kit” Bond |
| 2009 | Anne M. Burke and Daniel J. Burke |
| 2008 | William P. MacKinnon |
| 2007 | Robert A. Goldberg |
| 2006 | Elizabeth G. Dulany |
| 2005 | Howard R. Lamar |
| 2004 | Jere Krakow and Kay Threlkeld |
| 2003 | Mario Marcopoli |
| 2002 | William Ryder Ridgeway |
| Ronald E. Loving | |
| Bradford R. Cole | |
| 2001 | Anatoly M. Kolodny |
| 2000 | Janusz Wolinski |
| 1999 | Theodore J. Kindred |
Certificate of Merit
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2006 | Benjamin P. Allred |
| 2005 | [Certificate not given] |
| 2004 | Douglas Geilman |
| 2003 | Shawn Callahn |
| 2002 | Jedediah S. Rogers |
For Books
Best Family / Community History Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Donna Toland Smart |
| 2014 | Matthew Kester |
| 2013 | Stephen G. Schwendiman |
| 2012 | William G. Hartley |
| 2011 | Leslie Albrecht Huber |
| [Change in name and funding of award:] | |
| 2010 | Richard C. Roberts |
| 2009 | Wendall Walton with Hilary Hendricks |
| 2008 | Clifford Stott |
| 2007 | R. Carl Harris |
| 2006 | No award given |
| 2005 | Stephen L. Prince |
| 2004 | William G. Hartley |
Special Merit Citation Book Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2003 | Glen M. Leonard |
Francis M. Chipman Award to Outstanding Young Scholar
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1986 | Breck England |
| 1985 | Clifford L. Stott |
| 1984 | Kenneth L. Cannon |
For Articles
BYU Women’s Research Institute Best Article Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1997 | Jill Mulvay Derr |
| 1996 | Maureen Ursenbach Beecher |
| 1995 | Martha Sonntag Bradley and Mary Brown Firmage |
| 1994 | [No award given] |
| 1993 | Linda Thatcher |
| 1992 | Lola Van Wagenen |
| 1991 | Carol Cornwall Madsen |
| 1990 | Sherilyn Cox Bennion |
Editor’s Award for Best Manuscript Submitted to the Journal of Mormon History
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Ronald W. Walker |
| 1992 | Douglas F. Tobler |
| 1991 | Carol Cornwall Madsen |
| 1990 | Glen M. Leonard |
| 1989 | Paul H. Peterson |
Best Article Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1973 | Paul M. Edwards |
For Dissertation, Thesis, and Student Papers
Best Dissertation or Thesis
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Richard Ian Kimball |
| 1999 | Marjorie A. Newton |
| 1998 | Janet Ellingson |
| 1997 | Alexander L. Baugh |
| 1996 | [No award given] |
| 1995 | Lola Van Wagenen |
| 1994 | Isleta L. Pement |
| 1994 | William P. Connors |
| 1993 | Carma de Jong Anderson |
| 1992 | Steven Epperson |
| 1991 | Irene M. Bates |
| 1990 | Grant Underwood |
| 1989 | Philip L. Barlow |
| 1988 | Marjorie Newton |
| 1987 | Bruce A. Van Orden |
| 1986 | Carol Cornwall Madsen |
| 1986 | Rex Cooper |
| 1985 | Richard E. Bennett |
| 1984 | Valeen Tippetts Avery |
| 1983 | Edward Leo Lyman |
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1981 | Michael Guy Bishop |
| 1980 | [No award given] |
| 1979 | Steven L. Olsen |
| 1978 | David J. Whittaker |