As announced at this evening?s Awards Banquet in San Antonio, Texas:

Best Undergraduate Paper
?Bradley Kime, ?Exhibiting Theology: James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20? Utah State University

Best Graduate Paper
? Christopher James Blythe, ?Emma?s Willow: Mormon Pilgrimage and Nauvoo?s Mater Dolorsa.? Florida State University

Best Thesis Award
? Blair Hodges, ?Intellectual Disability in Mormon Thought and History, 1830-1900.? Georgetown University

Best Dissertation Award
? Brent Rogers, ?Managing Popular Sovereignty: Federalism and Empire in Utah Territory, 1847-1863.? University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Best Article on Mormon Women?s History
? Lisa Olsen Tait, ?The 1890s Mormon Culture of Letters and the Post-Manifesto Crisis: A New Approach to Home Literature,? BYU Studies 52.1 (2013): 98-124.

Best International Article Award
? Richard L. Jensen, ?Mr. Samuelsen Goes to Copenhagen: The First Mormon Member of National Parliament,? Journal of Mormon History 39:2 (Spring 2013): 1-34.

Article Awards of Excellence (2)
? Matthew L. Harris, ?Mormonism?s Problematic Racial Past and the Evolution of the Divine-Curse Doctrine,? John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 33:1 (Spring/Summer 2013) 90-114.
? Max Perry Mueller, ?Playing Jane: Re-presenting Black Mormon Memory through Reenacting the Black Mormon Past,? Journal of Africana Religions 1:4 (2013): 513-561.

Best Article Award
? Ryan G. Tobler, ??Saviors on Mount Zion?: Mormon Sacramentalisism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead,? Journal of Mormon History 39:4 (Fall 2013), 182-238.

Best Family and Community History Award
? Matthew Kester, Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, and Religion in the American West (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Best International Book Award
? Craig Livingston, From Above and Below: The Mormon Embrace of Revolution, 1840-1940 (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2013).

Best First Book Award
? Elizabeth O. Anderson, Cowboy Apostle: The Diaries of Anthony W. Ivins, 1875-1932 (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2013).

Best Documentary History /Bibliography Award
? Michael Hubbard MacKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, William G. Hartley, Matthew Godfrey, and Mark Ashurst-McGee, eds. The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents Vol. 1, July 1828-June 1831 and Vol. 2 July 1831-January 1833 (Salt Lake City: The Church Historian?s Press, 2013).

Best Biography Award
? Todd M. Compton, A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary (Salt Lake City, UT: Unversity of Utah Press, 2013).

Best Book Award
? J.B. Haws, The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2013).

Leonard J. Arrington Award
? Ronald E. Romig

Special Citation
? Darius A. Gray