Award Recipients from the 2009 MHA Awards Banquet.
Leonard J. Arrington Award
Edward Leo Lyman
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MHA Best Book Award
Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley, Jr. and Glen M. Leonard
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
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Smith-Petit Best First Book Award
William P. MacKinnon
At Sword’s Point: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
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Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award
Gary Topping
Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life
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William B. Smart
Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart
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Christensen Best Documentary Award
Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen
The Joseph Smith Papers: Journals, v. 1, 1832-1839
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Geraldine McBride Woodward International Mormon History Award
Mark L. Grover
A Land of Promise and Prophecy: Elder A. Theodore Tuttle in South America
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Thomas Rice King Family or Community History Award
Wendel Walton with Hilary Hendricks
The Family of John Birch & Ann Craven in the Nineteenth Century
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T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of the Year Award
J. Spencer Fluhman
“‘An American Mahomet’: Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problems of Prophets in Antebellum America”
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J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence
Samuel Brown
“The Translator and the Ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps”
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Matthew Bowman
“The Crisis of Mormon Christology: History, Progress, and Protestantism”
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Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award
Mark Ashurst-McGee
Arizona State University
“Zion Rising: Joseph Smith’s Early Social and Political Thought”
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Lester E. Bush Award for Two Best Theses
Samuel A. Smith
Pennsylvania State University
“The Wasp in the Beehive: Non-Mormon Presence in the 1880s Utah”
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Zachary Ray Jones
The College of William and Mary
“Mormon Proselytizing in Russian Finland, 1860-1914
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Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper
Matthew Bowman
“Liturgy as History: An Approach to Mormon Worship, 1830-2008”
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Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper
Benjamin E. Park
“Build, Therefore, Your Own World”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and American Antebellum Thought”
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Special Citaions
Warren Archer
Brent Corcoran
Kevin Jones
Lavina Fielding Anderson
(For Contributions to the Journal of Mormon History)
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Newell Bringhurst
MHA Historian 2002-2008
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Thomas L. Kane Award
Anne M. Burke
Daniel J. Burke
(For their work in obtaining an apology from the state of Illinois toward the LDS Church)
Congrats to all the winners, especially JI’s own Matt Bowman for cleaning house.
Congrats Matt and Ben!
Comment by Jared T — May 23, 2009 @ 12:47 am
It’s an honor to know you both! Congratulations.
Comment by Ardis Parshall — May 23, 2009 @ 5:41 am
Congrats on your prize Ben, and your excellent paper on Common Sense.
Comment by smb — May 23, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Yes, congratulations all around. Anyone can blog, but it takes talent to publish.
Comment by Dave — May 23, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Well-deserved congratulations!
Comment by Edje — May 23, 2009 @ 11:21 am
Congrats, indeed.
Comment by Christopher — May 23, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
double congrats Matt – you da man.
Comment by Dallas Robbins — May 23, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
Hi, nice posts there 🙂 thank’s for the interesting information
Comment by Mike — May 23, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
A great crop of deserving researchers this year. We were fortunate to be sitting with Ben during the Awards Banquet & got to congratulate him personally — between his furious text messaging of the results to the online community. Congrats again.
Comment by John Hamer — May 23, 2009 @ 10:42 pm
Congrats to you both! Matt–you are a machine. Way to go. I missed being there this year.
Comment by KateB — May 24, 2009 @ 7:10 pm
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