The JWHA Book Awards Committee is pleased to announce the following nominees in four categories. 2021 was another spectacular year in Restoration Studies with top scholarship published in the world of Restoration Studies.
Books published in the calendar year prior to the award will be considered. The committee will select the best books (privileging works that are most relevant to Community of Christ history and values, regardless of the time period they encompass).
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Blythe, Christopher James. Terrible Revolution: Latter-Day Saints and the American Apocalypse. New York, NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press, 2020. |  |
Brown, Samuel Morris. Joseph Smith’s Translation: The Words and Worlds of Early Mormonism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. | |
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Davis, William L. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith the the Making of the Book of Mormon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. |  |
Park, Benjamin E. Kingdom of Nauvoo: the Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier. New York, N.Y.: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. | |
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Petrey, Taylor G. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. |
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Best Anthology |
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Edison, Carol A., Eric A. Eliason, and Lynne S. McNeill. This is the Plate: Utah Food Traditions. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. |  |
Hoyt, Amy and Taylor G. Petrey, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020.
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MacKay, Michael Hubbard, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian M. Hauglid, eds. Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2020. |  |
Shepherd, R. Gordon, A. Gary Shepherd, Ryan T. Cragun, eds. The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2020. | |
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Geisner, Joseph, ed. Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2020. | |||
Best Biography |
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Barney, Ronald O. Joseph Smith: History, Methods, and Memory. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. |  |
Harris, Matthew L. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2020. | |
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Holley, Val. Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020. |  |
Pulido, Elisa Eastwood. The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. | |
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Best Documentary |
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Kuehn, Elizabeth A., and Matthew C. Godfrey, Jordant T. Watkins, and Mason K. Allred, eds. The Joseph Smith Papers Documents, Volume 10: May-August 1842. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2020. |  |
McBride, Spencer W., Jeffrey D. Mahas, Brett D. Dowdle, and Tyson Reeder, eds. The Joseph Smith Papers Documents, Volume 11: September 1842-February 1843. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2020. | |
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Moore, Richard G. ed. The Writings of Oliver Olney: April 1842 to February 1843—Nauvoo, Illinois. Salt Lake City: Kofford Books, 2020. |  |
Vogel, Dan, ed. The Wilford Woodruff Journals, 6 Volumes + Index. Salt Lake City: Benchmarks Books, 2020. | |
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