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Awards Received by University of Utah Press Publications

2012

Utah Book Award in Nonfiction to Don D. Fowler for The Glen Canyon Country: A Personal Memoir

Mormon History Association Geraldine McBride Woodward Internation Book Award to Hugh J. Cannon (deceased) and Reid L. Neilson, editor for To the Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O. McKay, 1920-1921

Society for American Archaeology Book Award to Matthew R. Des Lauriers for Island of Fogs: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations of Isla Cedros, Baja California

Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction-Contemporary toFrederick H. Swanson for The Bitterroot and Mr. Brandborg: Clearcutting and the Struggle for Sustainable Forestry in the Northern Rockies

2011

Utah Book Award in Nonfiction to Steven Simms for Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah

The New Mexico Book Association  Southwest Book Design & Production Awards for Excellence in the category Trade Books: Non-illustrated to Wildbranch: An Anthology of Nature, Environment, and Place-based Writing , edited by Florence Caplow and Susan Cohen

Society for American Archaeology Book Award for Public Audience to Steven Simms for Traces of Fremont: Society and Rock Art in Ancient Utah

Mormon History Association Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History to Raymond Kuehne, Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State:  A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990

2010

Association for Mormon Letters Award for Memoir to George Handley for Home Waters

Mormon History Association Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award to Richard E. Turley and Ronald W. Walker, eds., for Mountain Meadows Massacre: The Andrew Jenson and David H. Morris Collection (copublished with BYU Studies)

Mormon History Association Steven F. Christensen Best Documentary Award to Jill Mulvay Derr and Karen Lyn Davidson for Eliza R. Snow: The Complete Poetry (copublished with BYU Studies)

Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book Award to Shannon Novak for House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows Massacre

Utah State History Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Utah History Book Award to Edward Leo Lyman for Amasa Mason Lyman: Mormon Apostle and Apostate, A Study in Dedication

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