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