2024 Award Recipients

2024 Award and Funding Recipients

Congrats to all whose work received funding!

*Note that amounts funded may be different than the amounts in original proposals.

Emails will be sent out to awardees in early May with specific amounts and instructions on how to process disbursment of funds. If your proposal was not funded, you are encouraged to apply again next year. Feel free to contact Assoc. Director Brenden Rensink to discuss further.

 

Annaley Naegle Redd Assistantship

James Allison, Anthropology, Brigham Young University: Montezuma Canyon Collections Data Improvement Project

Mark Belk, Biology, Brigham Young University: Demography of Western Native Fishes in Response to Climate-induced Changes in Stream Flow

Heather Belnap, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Brigham Young University: The Utah Women Artists Project

Joey Stanley, Linguistics, Brigham Young University: The Kohler Tapes: An in-depth look at early 20th Century Utah English

 

Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women’s History

Olivia Murphy, Art History, University of Oklahoma: “Willin' to be Movin”? Contemporary Artistic Examinations of Female Mobility in the American West

 

Charles Redd Fellowship Award in Western American History

Seth Archer, History, Utah State University: Captivity and Cosmology in the Indigenous Intermountain West

Meagan Evans, School of Visual Arts, University of Oklahoma: Claiming Place and Affirming Faith in American Art: Monuments, Memorials, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

John Flynn, History, University of Utah: Cold War Resistance to Nuclear Wastelanding in the American West

Sarah Knopp, American Studies, University of New Mexico: John Boyden, Peabody Coal, and Hopi-Navajo Land Disputes

William Mari, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University: The OSS, the OWI, and the birth of mass communications research

Katherine Montana, History and Philosophy, University of Montana: Funerals and Memorials throughout the American West as Forms of Everyday Resistance during the Second World War, 1939–1945

Spencer Stewart, Department of History & School of Information Studies, Purdue University: Mormon to Mao: Helen Foster Snow’s Utah Years

 

Independent Research and Creative Works Award

Marianne Ferrari: A Linguistic Analysis of English in Buffalo, Wyoming

Rachel Kline: We Feminine Foresters”: Women, Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service, 1850-2020

Ash Sanders: Mirage

Morgan Sjogren: In Search of Home Waters –– Community on the Colorado River

 

Interdisciplinary Studies Grant

Landon Burgener, Geological Sciences, Brigahm Young University; Felipe Rivera, Electron Microscope Facility, Brigham, Young University; and Raymond Rogers, Geology, Macalester College: Regional paleoclimate reconstructions of the Two Medicine and Judith River Formations, Montana

 

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler BYU Faculty Award

Samuel Otterstrom, Geography, Brigham Young University: Wild West Field Guide

Aaron Skabelund, History, Brigham Young University: Remembering Topaz: Memory Activists and Narratives of Confinement at the Japanese American Central Utah Relocation Center

Clinton Whipple, Biology, Brigham Young University: Convergent Evolution of Pollinator specificity in Penstemon section Saccanthera subsection Heterophylli

Fred Woods, Church History & Doctrine, Brigham Young University: Saints by State Website Project

 

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Award

Judson Finley, Sociology and Anthropology, Utah State University: Caves of the Vernal Area Revisited

Reilly Hatch, History, Davis High School/Weber State University: Remembering Topaz: Memory Activists and Narratives of Confinement at the Japanese American Central Utah Relocation Center

William Holly, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Northland Pioneer College: Save The Peaks: Winter Recreation, Indigenous Religion, and Community in Northern Arizona since 1970

Andrea Johnson, History, CSU Dominguez Hills: Religion in the American West of William Randolph Hearst

Colleen O’Neill, History, Utah State University: Race in a Reservation Bordertown:  WPA Work Programs in Montana, 1934-1938

Tracey Smith, History and Honors, Weber State University: Old West, New West: Urban Historical Identity and Preservation in the Intermountain West

Derek Uhey, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University: Seed Selection Preferences of Red (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) and California (Pogonomyrmex californicus) Harvester Ants and Implications for Broad-cast Seed Restoration

 

Public Programming Award

Better Days: Zitkála-Šá Centennial Celebrations

Juanita Brooks Conference: Juanita Brooks Utah History Conference

Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance: Fostering Mormon Environmental Stewardship in Southern Utah

Mormon History Association: 59th Annual Mormon History Association Conference Welcome Reception in Kirtland, Ohio 

Nevada Humanities: Sagebrush to Sandstone: Creative Workshops and Literary Walks

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University: Intermountain exhibition panel discussion

Northern Arionza University Center for Adaptable Western Landscapes: Biennial Conference of Science and Management for the Colorado Plateau and Southwest

Utah Humanities Council: The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies Author

Western Literature Association: Western Literature Association Annual Conference

Wyoming State Museum Education Department: Education Trunk Shipping Support for the Wyoming State Museum

 

Research Award for BYU Upper Division and Graduate Students

Abigail Borgmeier, Biology, Brigham Young University: Nematode community composition changes following nitrogen fertilization and rainfall pattern treatments

Breanne Herrmann, Anthropology, Brigham Young University: Identifying the Purpose of Oblong Stone Artifacts in the Utah Valley

Jenna Norris, Anthropology, Brigham Young University: Bioarchaeology in Tuscon, Arizona

Janetta Teichert, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University: Seed Enhancements on Three Native Plant Species to Maximize Germination for Utilization in Rangeland Restoration and Urban Landscapes

Benjamin Williams, Photography and Design, Brigham Young University: Interiors of the West

 

Research Award for Off-Campus Upper Division and Graduate Students

Sarah Ciarrachi, Biology, Northern Arizona University: Dietary Preferences of Reproductive Bats in the Grand Canyon: Implications for Bat Conservation Across the West

Analiesa Delgado, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Fortifying Kinship: Northern Paiute Children's Kinship and Community Building in Boarding Schools, 1884-1928

Quinn Eury, Anthropology, Utah State University: The Taphonomy of Wolf Predation in Yellowstone National Park

Cassandra Holcomb, Anthropology, Utah State University: Reagan-Thorne Collection

Lauren Isom, Geography, University of Utah: Environmental History of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) disturbances on Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) in the Northern Rocky Mountains throughout the Holocene

Gregory LeDonne, History, University of Colorado Boulder: Rewilding American-Style: Ideas and Practices from Origins to Contemporary Times

Emily McLean, Religion/Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University: Environmental Ethos among the Redrocks: Understanding the Influences Behind White Southern Utahns' Land Ethics

Jacob Northcutt, History and Philosophy, Montana State University: Vertical Frontiers: Mountaineering in the American West

Gregory Payne, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Trading for Empire: The Role of Fur Traders in American Expansion

Kristen Phipps, History, University of Nevada Las Vegas:  Desert Slavery: How the Old Spanish Trail Sustained Captivity and Coerced Labor in the North American West

Eytan Pol, English, Texas Tech University: Deceptive Solecism: Edward Abbey, Wilderness, Civilization

Addie Price, History, Colorado State University: Recreation in the Rockies: How Lesbians Formed Community in the Mountain West

Sara Saouma, Anthropology, Utah State University: Morphometric Analyses of Fremont Maize: A Comparative Study of Adaptations

 

Visiting Fellows

Jaroslav Kušnír, University of Prešov, Slovakia

Liv Marit Haakenstad, Study Geneaology Organization, Norway

 

Butler Young Scholar Award

Joshua LeMonte, Geological Sciences, Brigham Young University, Rising Risks from Receding Shores: Assessing Human Health Risk Due to Dust from the Great Salt Lake

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