The JWHA article award committee is pleased to announce the following nominations for our best article awards. The authors of the articles and book chapters published fascinating work in Restoration Studies scholarship in 2024.
The committee accepts nominations for articles published during the previous calendar year. The committee selects award winners from these nominated materials, privileging work most relevant to Community of Christ history and values, regardless of the period examined. The following articles have been nominated:
- Addams, R. Jean. “Aftermath of the Martyrdom: Aspirants to the Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Smith.” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 62 (2024): 335-402.
- Chou, Petra, Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, and Jessika Santoso. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Indonesia in the 21st Century.” Latter-day Saints Historical Studies 25, nos. 1-2 (2024): 19-36.
- Chou, Petra M.W.S., Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, and Sophia Gunter. “Chinese Temple Matrons in Hong Kong.” In Voices of Latter-day Saint Women in the Pacific and Asia, edited by Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, Alisi K. Langi, Petra Chou, 255–268. Provo, UT, Laie, HI, and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies, and Deseret Book Company, 2024.
- Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), Petra Chou, and Jessika Santoso. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Indonesia in the 20th Century.” Latter-day Saints Historical Studies 25, nos. 1-2 (2024): 1-18.
- Chou, Po Nien (Felipe) and Petra M.W.S. Chou. “Voices of Latter-day Saint Women in Mongolia.” In Voices of Latter-day Saint Women in the Pacific and Asia, edited by Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, Alisi K. Langi, Petra Chou, 303-324. Provo, UT, Laie, HI, and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies, and Deseret Book Company, 2024.
- Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), Petra M.W.S. Chou, Jesse H. Q. Chou. “Kim Do Pil: First Relief Society President in Korea.” In Voices of Latter-day Saint Women in the Pacific and Asia, edited by Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, Alisi K. Langi, Petra Chou, 211–228. Provo, UT, Laie, HI, and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies, and Deseret Book Company, 2024.
- Chou, Po Nien (Felipe), Petra M.W.S. Chou, and JoYa Hsu. “Chinese Temple Matrons in Taiwan.” In Voices of Latter-day Saint Women in the Pacific and Asia, edited by Po Nien (Felipe) Chou, Alisi K. Langi, Petra Chou, 269-286. Provo, UT, Laie, HI, and Salt Lake City, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Studies, and Deseret Book Company, 2024.
- Davis, Ryan A. “Rockin’ the Regime: Mormon Missionaries, American Popular Music, and the Fading of Spanish Fascism.” Popular Music and Society 47, no. 4 (2024): 422–441.
- Grunder, Rick. “A ‘Prophet to Your Father’: Martin Harris and the Printing of the Book of Mormon.” American Communal Societies Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2024): 65-96.
- Homer, Michael W. “‘There’s no combination, so firm as freemason’: William Wines Phelps — New York Journalist, Mason, and Anti-Mason.” American Communal Societies Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2024): 33-64.
- Johnson, Melvin C. “West of the Missouri: Latter Day Saints Among the Civilized Tribes of the Indian Territory before 1861.” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 44, no. 2 (2024): 42-68.
- Perez, William. “Unholy Waters: The Role of Alcohol in Identity and Boundary Creation Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.” In Holy Waters: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Religion and Alcohol, edited by Ryan Lemasters and Stephen Covell, 198-224. London: Routledge, 2024.
- Van Orden, Bruce A. “The Rise of Anti-Masonry in Western New York and Its Connection to the Rise of Mormonism.” American Communal Societies Quarterly 18, no. 1 (2024): 3-32.
