Congrats to all this year’s winners! If you’re going to buy, support university presses and independent bookstores! Personally, I’m a big fan of Benchmark Books.

BEST BOOK AWARD

Stephen C. Taysom, Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2023).

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BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD

Janiece Johnson, Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

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BEST DOCUMENTARY EDITING

Todd M. Compton, In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2023).

MAE TIMBIMBOO PARRY BEST INDIGENOUS STUDIES AWARD

Erika Bsumek, The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023).

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BEST BIOGRAPHY

McKay Coppins, Romney: A Reckoning (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2023).

BEST ARTICLE AWARD

Janiece Johnson and Quincy D. Newell, “Not Only to the Gentiles, but Also to the African”: Samuel Chambers and Scripture,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 92 no. 2 (June 2023): 357-381.

BEST WOMEN’S HISTORY ARTICLE

David C. Howlett and Nancy Ross, “Creating a Feminist Religious Counterpublic: RLDS Feminists and Women’s Ordination Advocacy in America, 1970–1985,” Religion & American Culture 33 no. 2 (2023): 220-247.

BEST INTERNATIONAL HISTORY ARTICLE

David Dmitri Hurlbut, “Social Projects” and the RLDS Church’s Mission in Southeastern Nigeria, 1966-1977,” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 43, no. 2 (2023): 87-110.

JOURNAL OF MORMON HISTORY AWARD

Jordan T. Watkins, “Slavery, Early Latter-day Saint Constitutionalism, and the Limits of the Right to Petition,” Journal of Mormon History 49 no. 3 (2023): 47-102.