2020 Award Winners

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Better Days 2020—Rebekah Clark, Tiffany Greene, Katherine Kitterman, Neylan McBaine, Naomi Watkins—for bringing Utah women’s history into the forefront with research, books, videos, events, educational tools, and K-12 curriculum.

Park City Museum, for efforts to preserve, protect, promote, document, and maintain the historical and physical integrity of the Glenwood Cemetery in Park City, Utah.

Lisa Duskin Goede, Bear River Heritage Area Coordinator, for efforts to understand, document, and support heritage and cultural organizations, traditions, and individuals of northern Utah and southeastern Idaho.

William P. MacKinnon Award

Wendy Rex-Atzet, Utah History Day Coordinator

Sponsored by William P. MacKinnon

Juanita Brooks Best Book in Utah History

Sondra G. Jones, Being and Becoming Ute: The Story of an American Indian People (University of Utah Press, 2019)

Sponsored by the Smith-Pettit Foundation

Finalist for Best Book in Utah History

Kenneth W. Baldridge, The Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah, 1933–1942: Remembering Nine Years of Achievement (University of Utah, 2019)

Sponsored by the Smith-Pettit Foundation

Dale L. Morgan Award

Best scholarly article in UHQ

Richard Saunders, “Placing Juanita Brooks among the Heroes (or Villains) of Mormon and Utah History” UHQ (Summer 2019)

Sponsored by Allan and Thalia Smart and Zeese Papanikolas

Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Award

Best general-interest article in UHQ

Michael McLane, “Taking the Waters: Lost Leisure on Salt Lake City’s Beck Street” UHQ (Winter 2019)

Sponsored by the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

Nick Yengich Memorial Editors’ Choice Award

John Sillito, “Drawing the Sword of War against War: B. H. Roberts, World War I, and the Quest for Peace” UHQ (Spring 2019)

Sponsored by Ron Yengich

LeRoy S. Axland History Article Award

Best Utah history article or chapter in a publication other than UHQ

Jeff Nichols, “Before the Boom: Mormons, Livestock, and Stewardship, 1847–1870,” in The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History (University of Utah Press, 2019)

Sponsored by Michael W. Homer

Helen Papanikolas Student Paper Award

Emily Larson, University of Utah, “The Power of Paint: Working Women in Utah’s Art World, c1935–1955”

Andrea Maxfield, University of Utah, “Latter-day Saint Female Dynasties of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”

Sponsored by Patricia Lyn Scott and Linda Thatcher