Members of the Mormon History Association recognized several of their number with awards for research and publishing during their annual meeting in Kirtland, Ohio.
Winners are: Milton V. Backman Jr., Leonard J. Arrington Award; Sarah Barringer Gordon, MHA Best Book Award ($1,500) for "The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America"; Jeffrey Nichols, Smith-Petit Best First Book Award ($1,000) for "Prostitution, Polygamy and Power, Salt Lake City, 1847-1918"; Boyd Jay Peterson, Turner-Bergera Best Biography Award ($1,000) for "Hugh Nibley, A Consecrated Life"; Roger Robin Ekins, Christensen Best Documentary Award ($700) for "Defending Zion, George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857."
Glen M. Leonard, Special Merit Citation ($700) for "Nauvoo, A Place of Peace, A People of Promise"; Ronald W. Walker, T. Edgar Lyon Best Article of the Year Award ($300) for "Walkara Meets the Mormons, 1848-52: A Case Study in Native American Accommodation."
Other winners include Stephen C. LeSueur and Jeremy Bonner, J. Talmage Jones Awards of Excellence ($250 each); W. Paul Reeve, the William Grover and Winifred Foster Reese Award; Matthew J. Grow, Juanita Brooks Best Graduate Paper ($300); Shawn Callahan, Certificate of Merit ($100); Thomas L. Kane Award to Mario Marcopoli, former mayor of Kirtland for his encouragement of historic site restoration. Special citations were issued to Donald L. Enders, Ronald K. Esplin, Susan Easton Black and Harvey B. Black.