Mark L. Staker
“Thou Art the Man: Newell K. Whitney in Ohio”
BYU Studies
Vol. 42, No. 2, 2003

Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper - $400 ea.
David Howlett
University of Missouri – Kansas City
“The RLDS Church and Late Twentieth-Century American Spiritual Transformations”

David Howlett (L) receiving the Best Graduate Paper Award from Alex Baugh, (R) presenter

Patrick Q. Mason
University of Notre Dame
“God and the People: Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism.”

Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper - $300
Julina Magnusson
Brigham Young University
“The Effect of the Utah War on Mormon Emigration”

Certificate of Merit - $100
Douglas Geilman
Previously awarded at the Brigham Young University Annual Religious Student Symposium
“Le Reflecteur: Early Voices in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Switzerland”

Thomas L. Kane Award
Jere Krakow, Superintendent and
Kay Threlkeld, Data Base Administrator
National Trails System, National Parks Service
For their important contribution to the mapping , marking, preserving, and protecting the Mormon Pioneer National History Trail from Iowa to Utah.

Jere Krakow (L) and Kay Threlkeld (C) receiving the Thomas L. Kane Award from Bill Hartley, (R) presenter.

MHA Best Book Award - $1,500
Armand Mauss
All Abraham’s Children, Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage.
University of Illinois Press
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Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award - $1,000
Alan K. Parrish
John A. Widtsoe, a Biography
Deseret Book
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Christensen Best Documentary Award - $700
Charles M. Hatch & Todd M. Compton, eds.
A Widow’s Tale, The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Utah State University Press
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Thomas Rice King Best Family or Community History Award - $500
William G. Hartley
Stand by my Servant Joseph, the Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration.
Deseret Book and the Smith Institute, Brigham Young University
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T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of Year Award - $300
Paul H. Peterson and Ronald W. Walker
“Brigham Young’s Word of Wisdom Legacy”
BYU Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 & 4, 2003