Years |
Name |
Prominence at the time of service |
1966–67 |
Leonard J. Arrington |
MHA co-founder; Utah State University historian; author of Great Basin Kingdom |
1967–68 |
Eugene E. Campbell |
Brigham Young University (BYU) history professor |
1968–69 |
T. Edgar Lyon |
Nauvoo Restoration |
1969–70 |
S. George Ellsworth |
Utah State University history professor |
1970–71 |
Richard D. Poll |
Western Illinois University vice-president; former BYU historian |
1971–72 |
Davis Bitton |
MHA co-founder; University of Utah history professor |
1972–73 |
James B. Allen |
MHA co-founder; BYU history professor |
1973–74 |
Reed C. Durham Jr. |
Director of Institute of Religion at the University of Utah |
1974–75 |
Thomas G. Alexander |
BYU history professor |
1975–76 |
Charles S. Peterson |
University of Utah historian; former director of USHS |
1976–77 |
Paul M. Edwards |
|
1977–78 |
Douglas D. Alder |
USU history professor and director of honors program |
1978–79 |
Milton V. Backman |
BYU Religious Education professor |
1979–80 |
Jan Shipps |
Indiana University professor of history and religious studies |
1980–81 |
Dean C. Jessee |
Joseph Smith researcher and archivist with the LDS Church. |
1981–82 |
Melvin T. Smith |
|
1982–83 |
William D. Russell |
Professor of history at Graceland University |
1983–84 |
Kenneth W. Godfrey |
LDS Institute of Religion Director |
1984–85 |
Maureen U. Beecher |
BYU English professor with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute. |
1985–86 |
Richard L. Bushman |
Columbia University historian; author of Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism |
1986–87 |
Richard W. Sadler |
|
1987–88 |
Valeen Tippetts Avery |
Northern Arizona University historian, Co-author of Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith |
1988–89 |
Stanley B. Kimball |
SIU Edwardsville historian; biographer of Heber C. Kimball |
1989–90 |
Carol Cornwall Madsen |
BYU historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute. |
1990–91 |
Richard P. Howard |
World Church Historian of the RLDS Church |
1991–92 |
Ronald W. Walker |
BYU history professor |
1992–93 |
Marvin S. Hill |
BYU historian; author of Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism |
1993–94 |
Roger D. Launius |
JWHA president; chief historian for NASA |
1994–95 |
Mario De Pillis |
|
1995–96 |
David J. Whittaker |
Brigham Young University archivist |
1996–97 |
Linda King Newell |
historian; author of Mormon Enigma; editor of Dialogue; JWHA president |
1997–98 |
Armand L. Mauss |
WSU professor of sociology and religious studies |
1998–99 |
Jill Mulvay Derr |
BYU historian; authored women's histories |
1999–2000 |
Newell G. Bringhurst |
|
2000–01 |
William G. Hartley |
Director of the Family History and Genealogy Research Center at BYU |
2001–02 |
Dean L. May |
University of Utah historian specializing in social history of the American West |
2002–03 |
Lawrence Foster |
Georgia Institute of Technology professor of history, technology, and society |
2003–04 |
Martha Sonntag Bradley |
|
2004–05 |
Donald Q. Cannon |
Brigham Young University professor |
2005–06 |
Philip L. Barlow |
Professor of theology and American religious history at Hanover College |
2006–07 |
Ronald K. Esplin |
Joseph Smith Papers Project director; BYU historian; Joseph Fielding Smith Institute director |
2007–08 |
Paul L. Anderson |
BYU Museum of Art curator |
2008–09 |
Kathryn M. Daynes |
BYU historian; author of More Wives Than One |
2009–10 |
Ronald E. Romig |
Community of Christ archivist |
2010–11 |
William P. MacKinnon[2] |
Independent historian; author of At Sword's Point |
2011–12 |
Richard L. Jensen[3] |
Research historian with LDS Church History Department |
2012–13 |
Glen M. Leonard |
Independent historian; author of Nauvoo |
2013–14 |
Richard E. Bennett |
BYU professor of Church History and Doctrine |
2014–15 |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
Harvard University historian of early America and women; Pulitzer and Bancroft winner |
2015–16 |
Laurie Maffly-Kipp |
Professor at Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis |
2016–17 |
Brian Q. Cannon |
BYU historian and director of the Charles Redd Center |
2017–18 |
Patrick Q. Mason |
Utah State University Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, professor of history. Former Howard W. Hunter Chair at Claremont University. |
2018–19 |
W. Paul Reeve |
University of Utah professor of history and the director of graduate studies in the history department |
2019–20 |
Ignacio M. Garcia |
BYU Lemuel H. Redd Jr. professor of Western American History at Brigham Young University. |
2020–21 |
Jenny Lund |
Director of the Historic Sites Division of the Church History Department |