Thanks to Katherine Pollock for this list!

The 2025 John Whitmer Historical Association awards were presented to the following scholars at this year’s conference:

Pollock Best Historical Article: Davis, Ryan A. “Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism.” Popular Music and Society 47, no. 4 (2024): 422–441.

Greg Kofford Best Historical Article: Perez, William. “Unholy Waters: The Role of Alcohol in Identity and Boundary Creation Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” In Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol, edited by Ryan Lemasters and Stephen Covell, 198-224. London: Routledge, 2024.

Smith-Pettit Best Book: Matthew L. Harris, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Suzanne Geisner & Jerry Mogg Best Anthology: David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024).

Alma Blair Best Biography: Cristina M. Gagliano, Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024).

Whittemore Best Documentary History: Katie Ludlow Rich and Heather Sundahl. Fifty Years of Exponent II (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024)