The JWHA article award committee is pleased to announce the following nominations for our Best Historical Article and Best Theological Article awards. Article and book chapter authors published fascinating work in Restoration Studies scholarship during 2022.
Each year, the committee accepts nominations of articles published during the previous calendar year. The committee selects award winners from these nominated materials, privileging work that is most relevant to Community of Christ history and values, regardless of the time period examined.
Our Best Historical Article nominations are:
- Allred, Mason Kamana. “Developing the Dead: Spirit Photography, Mormonism, and Noise.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 2 (April 2022): 106-130.
- Anderson, Laura K. and Robert Swanson. “‘A Complete Struggle’: Zion Building and Women Connected to the Mormon Battalion.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 1 (January 2022): 1-28.
- Curtis Jr., LeGrand R., Benjamin C. Pykles, and Courtney A. Worthen. “The Hill Cumorah: Restoring a Sacred Site.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 2 (April 2022): 42-74.
- LeFevre, Brooke R. “‘Schisms, Like Revolutions, Never Go Backwards’: The Godbeites, the Cullom Bill, and the Anti-Polygamy Debate.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 42, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 61-76.
- Olmstead, Jacob W., Josh Probert, and Elwin C. Robison. “Myths and Realities of the Salt Lake Temple Foundation.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 4 (October 2022): 32-65.
- Romig, Ronald and Lachlan Mackay. “Hidden Things Shall Come to Light: The Visual Image of Joseph Smith Jr.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 42, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 28-60.
- Staker, Mark L. and Donald L. Enders. “Joseph Smith Sr.’s China Adventure.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 2 (April 2022): 79-105.
And our Best Theological Article nominations are:
- Hilton III, John, Emily K. Hyde, and Megan Cutler. “An Atoning Priority in the Hymns of Calvary and Gethsemane.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 3 (July 2022): 110-133.
- Johnson, Janiece. “Lucy Mack Smith and Her Sacred Text.” In Christine Elyse Blythe, Christopher James Blythe, and Jay Burton, eds., Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022), 149-168.
- Murphy, Thomas W. “An Insufficient Canon: The Popul Wuj, Book of Mormon, and Other Scriptures.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 3 (July 2022): 71-98.
- Reynolds, Noel B. “Covenant Language in Biblical Religions and the Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 61, no. 2 (2022): 139-176.
- Rosetti, Cristina. “‘O My Mother’: Mormon Fundamentalist Mothers in Heaven and Women’s Authority.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 55, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 119-133.
- Shurtz, Charlotte Scholl. “A Queer Heavenly Family: Expanding Godhood beyond a Heterosexual, Cisgender Couple.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 55, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 69–97.
- Smoot, Stephen O. “Apologetics and Antiquity: Book of Mormon Reception, 1830-1844.” Journal of Mormon History 48, no. 4 (Fall 2022): 1-31.
- Spencer, Joseph M. “Books of Mormon: Latter-day Saints, Latter Day Saints, and the Book of Mormon.” In Christine Elyse Blythe, Christopher James Blythe, and Jay Burton, eds., Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2022), 65-96.
- Townsend, Colby. “‘The Robe of Righteousness’: Exilic and Post-Exilic Isaiah in The Book of Mormon.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 55, no. 3 (Fall 2022): 75–106.
- Watkins, Jordan T. “Neither Should They Be Dimmed Any More by Time”: The Book of Mormon, the Bible, and Joseph Smith’s Prophetic Presentism.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 44, no. 5 (2022): 499-510.
