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MHA 2008 Award Winners
(Awards given for work published in 2007)

The Mormon History Association presents the following awards each year to encourage and foster the highest ideals in scholarly research and publication.

The Awards Summary contains all the awards issued to date--download the pdf file now (105kb): Mormon History Association Awards Summary

Leonard J. Arrington Award
James B. Allen
Awarded to James B. Allen, BYU emeritus and former MHA President. Presented by Armand Mauss.

MHA Best Book Award
Terryl L.Givens
"People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture" Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Linda Thatcher presenting Best Book Award to Terryl Givens and publisher, Oxford University Press

Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award
Matthew C. Godfrey
Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921. Logan, Utah: Utah State University, 2007.

W. Paul Reeve
Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes. Urbana and Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Christensen Best Documentary Award

Jedediah S. Rogers, ed
In the President’s Office: The Diaries of L. John Nuttall, 1879-1892. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2007.

Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper (tie)
Stanley Thayne, “Holiness to the Lord: Delineating and Maintaining the Symbolic Boundaries of Zion,” graduate student, history, Brigham Young University

Matthew Bowman, “The Crisis of Mormon Christology: History, Progress, and Protestantism, 1880-1930,” graduate student, history, Georgetown University

Juanita Brooks Best Undergraduate Paper
John Brumbaugh
“Return to Anti-Mormonism: Fred Dubois and The Reed Smoot Hearings,” undergraduate, Brigham Young University

Lester E. Bush Best Thesis Awards Nathaniel R. Rick
A Peculiar Place for the Peculiar Institution: Slavery and Sovereignty in Early Territorial Utah,” Brigham Young University, August 2007

Jeremy S. Parkin
“Police Work on the Mormon Trail, 1846-1847,” California State University, Long Beach, May 2007

Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award
Christine Talbot
“Mormons, Polygamy, and the American Body Politic: Contesting Citizenship, 1852-1890,” University of Michigan, 2006.

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence - $500 ($350 ea.)
Jacob W. Olmstead
“The Mormon Hierarchy and the MX” Journal of Mormon History (Fall 2007)

W. Paul Reeve
“Places That Can Be Easily Defended: A Case Study in the Economics of Abandonment during Utah’s Black Hawk War” Utah Historical Quarterly (Summer 2007)

T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of Year Award
George S. Tate
“Death, The great War, and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic as Context for Doctrine and Covenants 138” BYU Studies (Spring 2007)

Thomas Rice King Best Family or Community History Award
Clifford Stott
Faith and Dissent: The Nicholas Paul Story (N.p., 2007).

Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History
William G. Hartley and Lorna Call Alder
Anson Bowen Call: Bishop of Colonia Dublán
(Provo, Utah: L.C. Alder, 2007).
McBride award
101 year old, Lorna Call Alder and Bill Hartley receiving the Geraldine McBride Woodward Award from Geraldine McBride Woodward

Ella Turner-Ella Bergera Best Biography Award
Swanson, Frederick H.
Dave Rust: A Life in the Canyons. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2007

Thomas L. Kane Award
William P. MacKinnon

Special Citations
Steven Mayfield

Larry and Alene King
Special Citation
MHA President, Paul Anderson, Greg Christofferson and Board Member honor outgoing Executive Directors, Alene and Larry for their eight years of service