Congratulations to all of the winners!

Leonard J. Arrington Lifetime Contribution Award: Newell Bringhurst

Special Citation: LaJean Purcell Caruth

Best Book: Benjamin E. Park, Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier (Norton/Liveright)

Best Book: Taylor G. Petrey, Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism (University of North Carolina Press)

Best Biography: Elisa Eastwood Pulido, The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961 (Oxford University Press)

Best Book on International Mormon History: Corry Cropper and Christopher M. Flood, editors and translators, Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage, 1874-1892 (Bucknell University Press)

Best Personal History/Memoir: Ann Chamberlain, Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion (University of Utah Press)

Ardis E. Parshall Public History Award: Special Inaugural Award, Ardis E. Parshall (Keepapitchinin)

Regular Recipient: Better Days 2020

Best Article: Don Bradley and Mark Ashurst-McGee, “‘President Joseph Has Translated a Portion’: Joseph Smith and the Mistranslation of the Kinderhook Plates, in Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst- McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah Press, 2020), 452–523.

Journal of Mormon History Best Article: Miranda Wilcox, “Sacralizing the Secular in Latter-day Saint Salvation Histories (1890–1930),” Journal of Mormon History 46 no. 3 (2020): 23-59. 

Best Article on Mormon Women’s History: 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 Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity, edited by Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst- McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid (Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah Press, 2020), 105-134.

Best Article on International Mormonism: David J. Howlett, “Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964–2000,” Church History 89 no. 3 (2020): 633–58.

Best Dissertation: Sasha Coles, “Homespun Respectability: Silk Worlds, Women’s Work, and the Making of a Mormon Identity” (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Honorable Mention: Nathan Jones, “In the Nation of Promise: Mormon Political Thought in Modern America| (University of Utah)

Best Unpublished Student Paper: Hannah Jung, “Mind Your Own Business: Nosy Neighbors and the Community Witnessing of Polygamy” (Brandeis University)