Leonard J. Arrington Award
Claudia Lauper Bushman
Richard Lyman Bushman


President Ronald Romig presenting the Leonard J. Arrington Award to Richard L. Bushman

President Ronald Romig presenting the Leonard J. Arrington Award to Claudia L. Bushman

MHA Best Book Award
Matthew J. Grow
“Liberty to the Downtrodden:” Thomas L. Kane Romantic Reformer (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award
Megan Sanborn Jones
Performing American Identity in Anti-Mormon Melodrama (New York: Routledge, 2009).

Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award
Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lyn Davidson, comp. and eds.
Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry(Provo: Brigham Young University and Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2009).

Richard E. Turley and Ronald W. Walker
Mountain Meadows Massacre: the Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collection (Provo: Brigham Young University Press and Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2009.

Juanita Brooks Award For Best Graduate Paper
Matthew Bowman
“Matthew Philip Gill and Joseph Smith:  the Dynamics of Mormon Schism,” Ph.D. candidate, history, Georgetown University

Juanita Brooks Award For Best Undergraduate Paper
Joseph T. Antley
“Early America’s Treasure Quest:  The Effort to Recapture the Supernatural in the American Northeast.”  history major, Brigham Young University.

Lester E. Bush Best Thesis Awards
Debra Marsh
“Respectable Assassins: A Collective Biography and Socio-Economic Study of the Carthage Mob,” M.A. thesis, University of Utah

Caye Wycoff
“Markets and the Mormon Conflict in Nauvoo, Illinois, 1839-1846,” M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University

Gerald E. Jones Dissertation Award
Jonathan Moyer
“Dancing with the Devil: The Making of the Mormon Republican Pact,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Utah

J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence
Matthew J. Grow
“The Suffering Saints: Thomas L. Kane, ‘Democratic Reform & the Mormon Question in Antebellum American,” Journal of the Early Republic 29 ((Winter 2009), 681-710.

Edward Leo Lyman
“Chief Kanosh: Champion of Peace and Forbearance,” Journal of Mormon History 35 (Winter 2009), 157-207.

Morris A. Thurston
“The Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition, Joseph Smith’s Most Famous Case,” BYU Studies 48 (2009), 4-56.

President Ronald Romig presenting Jones Award of Excellence to Morris A. Thurston

T. Edgar Lyon Award For Best Article of Year
Samuel Brown
“Joseph Smith in Egypt: Babel, Hieroglyphics and the Pure Language of Eden,” Church History 78 (March 2009), 26-65.

Thomas R. King Community History Award
Richard C. Roberts
A History of the B.H. Roberts Family (the author, distributed by Eborn Books, 2009).

Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History
Roger P. Minert
In Harm’s Way: East German Latter-day Saints in WWII   (Provo, UT:  Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 2009).

Ella Turner-Ella Bergera Best Biography Award
Polly Aird
Mormon Convert, Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West, 1848-1861 (Norman: Arthur H. Clark/University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.)

President Ronald Romig presenting the Turner-Bergera Award for Best Biography to Polly Aird

Thomas L. Kane Award
U. S. Senator Christopher S. “Kit” Bond

Special Citations
Missouri State Archives