{"id":53875,"date":"2026-06-23T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=53875"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:35:44","slug":"mormon-history-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/mormon-history-awards-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Writing and History Awards: 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several Latter-day Saint and Mormonism-related awards have been given out in recent weeks, and I thought it would be useful to gather them all in one place. I&#8217;ll work on updating this as information becomes available about other awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mormon History Association, 2026 Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Graduate Student Awards<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martha Bradley Evans<\/span><b> Best Unpublished Graduate Student Paper<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elizabeth Mawlam, \u201cThe State of the Field of Global Mormon Studies\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D. Michael Quinn <\/span><b>Best Thesis Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garrett R. Elkins, \u201cMaking Peace Among the People: The Development of Brigham Young\u2019s Political Thought and Activity, 1836\u20131846\u201d (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.usu.edu\/etd2023\/428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah State University<\/span><\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Articles Awards<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lavina Fielding Anderson Award for the <\/span><b>Best Article Published in the <\/b><b><i>Journal of Mormon History<\/i><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elwin C. Robinson, \u201cObediah Taylor\u2019s Salt Lake Assembly Hall\u201d (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/jmh\/article-abstract\/51\/2\/65\/397140\/Obediah-Taylor-and-the-Salt-Lake-City-Assembly?redirectedFrom=PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Best Article on Mormon Women\u2019s History<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brooke LeFevre, \u201c\u2018A Childless Woman Like Myself\u2019: Polygamy, Patriarchy, and Reproductive Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Women\u2019s Infertility,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/uhq\/article-abstract\/93\/1\/6\/398960\/A-Childless-Woman-Like-Myself-Polygamy-Patriarchy?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Best Article on International Mormonism<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frode Ulvund, \u201cResistance and Intervention in the Contact Zone: Mormon Missionaries as Organizational Migrants in Norway circa 1900,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Mormon History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/jmh\/article-abstract\/51\/1\/86\/393237\/Resistance-and-Intervention-in-the-Contact-Zone?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan Shipps <\/span><b>Best Article Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cathy Gilmore, \u201cHealth and Healing on the Latter-day Saint Peripheries,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/uhq\/article-abstract\/93\/1\/23\/398963\/Health-and-Healing-on-the-Latter-day-Saint?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ardis E. Parshall Best Public History Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berkeley Ward Centennial Celebration, 1925\u20132025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Best Indigenous Studies Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elise Boxer, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oupress.com\/9780806196046\/mormon-settler-colonialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Oklahoma Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Book Awards<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b>Best Book Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lisa Olsen Tait, Amber Taylor, Kate Holbrook, and James Goldberg, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carry On: The Latter-day Saint Young Women\u2019s Organization, 1870\u20132024<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchhistorianspress.org\/young-women\/purchase?lang=eng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Church Historian\u2019s Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ella L. Turner <\/span><b>Best Biography Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Cannon, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signaturebooks.com\/books\/p\/building-a-global-zion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signature Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b>Best First Book<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brooke Kathleen Brassard, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Thirsty-Land-into-Springs-Water\/dp\/1487506333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Toronto Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><b>Best Documentary Editing<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gary Bergera, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Educating Zion: The Diaries of BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson, 1952\u20131971<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signaturebooks.com\/books\/p\/educating-zion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signature Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Thomas G. Alexander<b> Special Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Mormon History<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charles Redd Center for Western Studies<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ardis E. Parshall<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Leonard J. Arrington Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">George D. Smith<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Association for Mormon Letters Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the full awards list <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.associationmormonletters.org\/2026\/06\/2025-aml-award-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Comics<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camilla Stark. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Desert Prophet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camillastark.com\/art\/work\/desert-prophet-graphic-novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camilla Stark Art<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Creative Nonfiction<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amy Lee Scott. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the World Explodes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatepress.org\/books\/titles\/9780814259177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ohio State University Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Criticism<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julie Swallow, Christopher James Blythe, Eric A. Eliason, and Jill Terry Rudy. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Three Nephites: Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=c046834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Illinois Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Drama<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Abbott. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Backward<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hollins Playwrights Lab New Works Festival, Roanoke, Virginia, July 2025. MFA Thesis, Hollins University, May 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Feature Film<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truth &amp; Treason<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Written and directed by Matt Whitaker, co-written by Ethan Vincent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Short Film<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Java Jive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Written and directed by Barrett Burgin. Burginde Films.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Novel<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Bennion. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dead Fathers: Grief and Poker in the West Desert<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Fathers-Grief-Poker-Desert\/dp\/196147123X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BCC Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Picture Book<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McArthur Krishna &amp; Anne Pimentel, illustrated by Jessica Sarah Beach. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changemakers: Women Who Boldly Built Zion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Changemakers-Women-Boldly-Built-Zion\/dp\/1560855185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signature Books<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Podcasts<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Storming Journey<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hosted by Adam McLain, El Call, and Liz Busby. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stormingjourney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Poetry<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dave Nielsen. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meant to Be<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press53.com\/poetry-collections\/meant-to-be-poems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press 53<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Religious Nonfiction<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chad Ford. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seventy Times Seven: Jesus\u2019s Path to Conflict Transformation<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mi.byu.edu\/publications-section\/seventy-times-seven-jesuss-path-to-conflict-transformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maxwell Institute\/Deseret Book<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Short Fiction<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jenny Rebecca Rytting, \u201cSister Wives.\u201d Eternities of Cats (bonus issue of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irreantum <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">22), Summer 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Short Fiction Collection<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Tuttle. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Should Be Somewhere by Now<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/We-Should-Be-Somewhere-Now\/dp\/1968148132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornerstone Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Young Adult Fiction<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julie Berry. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If Looks Could Kill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonandschuster.com\/books\/If-Looks-Could-Kill\/Julie-Berry\/9781534470811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simon &amp; Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Society 2026 Annual Awards<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See the full awards list <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/history.utah.gov\/blog\/utah-historical-society-2026-annual-awards-ceremony-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, Utah history isn\u2019t always Mormon history and vice versa, but there\u2019s enough overlap to share it here.)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Best Student Paper in Utah Women\u2019s History Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emma Webb, \u201cWomen in the Oquirrh Mountains,\u201d available on ArcGIS StoryMaps.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Best Scholarly Article Award\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emily Marie Crumpton-Deason, \u201cMammy Chloe: Removing Fiction from Nonfictional Family Stories,\u201d published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/uhq\/article-abstract\/92\/3\/196\/391048\/Mammy-Chloe-Removing-Fiction-From-Nonfictional?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">summer 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthew C. Godfrey, \u201cA West Side (Sugar) Story: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Amalgamated Sugar Company, and the West Cache Sugar Company,\u201d published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/uhq\/article-abstract\/92\/4\/285\/391983\/A-West-Side-Sugar-Story-The-Church-of-Jesus-Christ?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fall 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Editors\u2019 Choice Award\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael L. Shamo, \u201cThe Majestic Virgin Forgot Her Promise\u201d: \u201cAn Environmental History of Irrigating Southern Utah, 1849\u20131910,\u201d published in the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Utah Historical Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/uhq\/article-abstract\/92\/2\/100\/388245\/The-Majestic-Virgin-Forgot-Her-Promise-An?redirectedFrom=fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spring 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>General Utah History Article Award\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye and Joseph Soderborg, \u201c\u2018We Had a Symbiotic Relationship\u2019: The Structure and Texture of Chinese-White Relationships in Depression-Era Utah,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Journal of Mormon History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlypublishingcollective.org\/uip\/jmh\/issue\/50\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Finalist for the Best Book in Utah History<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benjamin E. Park, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Zion: A New History of Mormonism<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Zion-New-History-Mormonism\/dp\/1631498657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Liveright Publishing Corporation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Best Book in Utah History Award\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W. Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, LaJean Purcell Carruth, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Abominable-Slavery-Religion-Antebellum\/dp\/0197765025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oxford University Press, 2024<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Goldberg has been presented with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.associationmormonletters.org\/2026\/06\/james-goldberg-2026-smith-pettit-foundation-award-for-outstanding-contribution-to-mormon-letters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2026 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let me know if I\u2019ve missed anything. Also, check out our relevant posts for more information on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/06\/mormon-studies-books-in-2025\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mormon Studies Books in 2025<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/mormon-studies-books-in-2026\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mormon Studies Books in 2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. See also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/chad-nielsens-favorite-reads-2025-edition\/\">Chad Nielsen\u2019s Favorite Reads, 2025 edition<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Latter-day Saint and Mormonism-related awards have been given out in recent weeks, and I thought it would be useful to gather them all in one place. I&#8217;ll work on updating this as information becomes available about other awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10397,"featured_media":53876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mormon-books-articles-awards-2026.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53883,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53875\/revisions\/53883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}