MHA Best Book Award
Ronald W. Walker, Richard E Turley, Jr., and Glen M. Leonard
Massacre at Mountain Meadows (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).


Linda Thatcher presenting Best Book Award to Richard E. Turley, Jr., Glen M. Leonard, and Ronald W. Walker

Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award
Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen
The Joseph Papers: Journals, vol. 1, 1832-1839. (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2008).

Juanita Brooks Award For Best Graduate Paper
Matthew Bowman
“Liturgy As History: An Approach to Mormon Worship, 1830-2008,” graduate student, history, Georgetown University

Juanita Brooks Award For Best Undergraduate Paper
Benjamin E. Park
“‘Build, Therefore, Your Own World’: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and American Antebellum Thought” undergraduate, Brigham Young University

Lester E. Bush Best Thesis Awards
Zachary Ray Jones
“Conflict Amid Conversion: Mormon Proselyitizing in Russian Finland, 1860-1914,” College of William Mary, January 2008

Samuel A. Smith
“The Wasp in the Beehive: Non-Mormon Presence in 1880s Utah,” Pennsylvania State University, August 2008.

Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award
Mark Ashurst-McGee
“Zion Rising: Joseph Smith’s Early Social and Political Thought,” Arizona State University, December 2008

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence
Matthew Bowman
“The Crisis of Mormon Christology: History Progress, and Protestantism,” Fides Et Historia, Journal of the Conference on Faith and History 40 (Summer/ Fall 2008).

Samuel Brown
“The Translator and the Ghostwriter: Joseph Smith and W.W. Phelps,” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Winter 2008).

T. Edgar Lyon Award For Best Article of Year
J. Spencer Fluhman
“An “American Mahomet’: Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America,” Journal of Mormon History 34 (Summer 2008).

Thomas R. King Community History Award
Wendel Walton with Hilary Hendricks
The Family of John Birch & Ann Craven in the Nineteenth Century, (the authors, 2008).

Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History
Mark L. Grover
A Land of Promise and Prophecy: Elder A. Theodore Tuttle in South America, 1960-1965 (Millennial Press, 2008).

Ella Turner-Ella Bergera Best Biography Award
William B. Smart
Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: The Life and Times of William H. Smart (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2008).

Gary Topping
Leonard J. Arrington: A Historian’s Life (Norman, Oklahoma: Arthur H. Clark Co., 2008)

Thomas L. Kane Award
Anne M. Burke and Daniel J. Burke

MHA President Kathryn Daynes presenting the Thomas L. Kane Award to Illinois State Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke and Illinois State Assemblyman, Daniel J. Burke

Special Citations
Warren Archer
Brent Corcoran
G. Kevin Jones
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Newell Bringhurst

Pat Scott presenting citation to outgoing Journal Editor, Lavina Fielding Anderson for her 18 years of service