Publications
You can find my essay “Polygamy and Revelation in Magical Mormonism: Four Peepstone Bride Narratives” in DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn. Edited by Benjamin E. Park (Signature Books, 2022)
“… by listening closely to these storytellers in their historical contexts, this story begins to reflect Mormon culture’s shifting attitudes about the more magical roots of Mormonism from 1940 to 1972 and the enduring interest and effects of polygamy on the progeny who descended through it.”
— “Polygamy and Revelation in Magical Mormonism: Four Peepstone Bride Narratives”
Awards
2024
The second chapter of my folklore thesis, “The Peepstone Woman in Logan,” won the Utah Historical Society’s Helen Papanikolas Award. The Helen Papanikolas Award is awarded to the best student paper on “Women’s History in Utah.”
“Millie’s paper recovers the story of Elvine Petersen, tracing how she came to be known as the peepstone woman and highlighting what her story shows about cultural memory.”
— Utah Historical Society
2023
The third chapter of my folklore thesis, “Comfort, Counsel, Money, and Livestock: Mormon Women’s Divination Communities,” won the Don Yoder Prize from the Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society.
“[The paper was] clear and thorough in its documentation of how magic played a role in the everyday lives of Mormons… [displaying an] exceptionally good use of both archival materials and collected texts.”
— Don Yoder Prize Committee
Master’s Student Researcher of the Year (English Department, Utah State University)
2022
Elaine J. Lawless Student Travel Award (Folk Belief and Religious Folklife Section of the American Folklore Society)
Second Place, Polly Stewart Student Travel Stipend (Women’s Section of the American Folklore Society)
Alta Fife Graduate Student Paper Award (Folklore Society of Utah)
Best Unpublished Graduate Student Paper (Mormon History Association)
2021
Margaret R. Yocom Graduate Student Paper Prize in Folklore (English Department, George Mason University)
Book Reviews
“Review of Reciprocal Ethnography and the Power of Women’s Narratives by Elaine J. Lawless.” Western Folklore. Vol 82. No. 1.
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