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Each year at the JWHA Annual Meeting in September, we give awards for the Best Book, Best Article and Best Student Paper
in the field of Latter Day Saint history.
The Best Book Award is generously underwritten by the Smith-Pettit Foundation of Salt Lake City .
Please send your nominations for awards to Bill Shepard, Chair of the JWHA Awards Committee.
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Mark L. Staker | Hearken, O Ye People: The Historical Setting of Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations |
| Best Article Award | Christopher James Blythe | "'The Church in the Days of Alpheus Cutler': New Insights into Nineteenth-century Cutlerite Ecclesiology" |
| Best Book Award | George D. Smith | Mormon Polygamy: "...but we called it celestial marriage" |
| Best Article Award | Bryan R. Monte | "Harvest Hills at Thirty-five: Graying Not Growing" |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | W.B. "Pat" Spillman | |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster | The Mormon Quest for the Presidency |
| Best Article Award | Erin B. Jennings | "Whitmer Family Beliefs and Their Church of Christ" |
| Best Article Award | Robin Scott Jensen | "Mormons Seeking Mormonism: Strangite Success and the Conceptualization of Mormon Ideology, 1844-50" |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Brian C. Hales | Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations after the Manifesto |
| Best Article Award | David J. Howlett | “‘The Making of a Steward’: Zion, Ecclesiastical Power, and RLDS Bodies, 1923-31” |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Jan Shipps | |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Melvin C. Johnson | Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858 |
| Best Article Award | Richard Clothier | “Different Drummers: The Diverse Hymnody of the Reorganization” |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Paul M. Edwards | |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Robert S. Wicks and Fred R. Foister | Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet |
| Best Article Award | Kim L. Loving | “Ownership of the Kirtland Temple: Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings” |
| Special Book Award | Newell G. Bringhurst and Lavina Fielding Anderson (eds.) | Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century |
| Special Book Award | Devery S. Anderson and Gary James Bergera (eds.) | Joseph Smith's Quorum of the Anointed, 1842-1845: A Documentary History and The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Dan Vogel | Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet |
| Best Article Award | Robert Flanders | “Nauvoo On My Mind” |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Alma Blair | |
| Best Student Paper Award | David J. Howlett | “Memory, Prophets, and Polygamy: The RLDS Church and American Religious Transformations in the Late Twentieth Century” |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Will Bagley | Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows |
| Best Article Award | D. Michael Quinn | "National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture or Violence" |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Richard P. Howard | |
| Special Award | Dan Vogel | Early Mormon Documents |
| Smith-Pettit Best Book Award | Glen Leonard | Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, A Place of Promise |
| Best Article Award | Eric Rogers | "Mark Hill Forscutt: Mormon Missionary, Morrisite Apostle, RLDS Minister" |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Leonard J. Arrington | |
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