Arrington-Prucha Prize

The Arrington-Prucha Prize is a $500 award recognizing the best essay of the year on religious history in the American West. In recognition of the role played by Leonard Arrington and Father Francis Paul Prucha in Western American religious history, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University funds this annual prize. The award is open to essays published in journals, magazines, or edited volumes with no time period, geographic restrictions, or questions of religious persuasion applying to the content. Any WHA member, publisher, or author may nominate qualifying work. Winners are selected through a committee review process and notifications are sent to recipients at the end of August each year.