Congratulations to all the winners!

Leonard J. Arrington Award: Richard E. Turley, Jr.

Special Citation: George D. Smith and Anna Rolapp

BOOK AWARDS

Best Book: David Walker, Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Best Biography: Quincy Newell, Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Best First Book: Konden Smith Hansen, Frontier Religion: Mormons and America, 1857-1907 (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019).

Best Documentary Editing: Gary James Bergera, Confessions of a Mormon Historian: The Diaries of Leonard J. Arrington, 1971-1997 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2019).

ARTICLE AWARDS

Best Article: Max Perry Mueller, “The ‘Negro Problem,’ the ‘Mormon Problem,’ and the Pursuit of ‘Usefulness’ in the White American Republic,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 88:4 (December 2019): 978-1012.

Best Article on Women’s History: Amy Easton-Flake, “Poetic Representations of Mormon Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Frontier America,” in Representing Rural Women, eds. Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019), 125-143.

Best Article on International Mormonism: D. Dmitri Hurlbut, “Gobert Eden and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria, 1962-1966,” Journal of Mormon History 45:4 (2019): 81-104.

Award of Excellence: William P. Connors, “Missionaries to the MOrmons: NOW’s ERA Mormon Project,” Journal of Mormon History 45:4 (2019): 105-132.

Best Journal of Mormon History Article: Cristina Rosetti, “Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage: The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality,” Journal of Mormon History 44:3 (July 2019): 111-132.

STUDENT AWARDS

Best Thesis: Colby Townsend, “Rewriting Eden with the Book of Mormon: Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America,” Utah State University.

Best Graduate Student Paper: Lori Motzkus Wilkinson, “Restoration of Womankind,” University of Utah.