2025 Redd Center Award and Funding Recipients

Annaley Naegle Redd Assistantship

 

Julie Allen, Comparative Arts and Letters/Scandinavian Studies Program, Scandinavian LDS Women’s Histories Database

Phil Allen, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Optimizing the performance of 15 Intermountain wildflowers: Does seed collection elevation matter?

Michael Cope, Sociology, 2025 Rural Utah Community Study

George Handley, Comparative Arts and Letters, Bonneville: A Novel

Bryan Hopkins, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, “The Desert Shall Rejoice, and Blossom as the Rose”: Conserving Precious Water in Western Landscapes

C. Riley Nelson, Biology, Systematic history of the winter stonefly species Capnia californica and related forms endemic to western North America

Steven Petersen, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Map the Distribution and Quantify Human Impacts on St. Anthony Evening Primrose in northeastern Idaho

Rob Sowby, Civil and Construction Engineering, Urban Water Planning

Joseph Stuart, History, Women of BYU: A 150-Year History

Rachel Wood, Biology, Microbial Community Responses to Environmental Stressors in Utah’s Wetlands: A Comparison Between Native and Invasive Plant Associations

 

Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women’s History

 

Jones Aiden, American Studies and English, Brigham Young University, Western Native Poets and the Divine Feminine

 

Charles Redd Fellowship Award in Western American History

 

Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, History and Philosophy, Montana State University, "Drowned Memories": Women and Water in the American West

Brigitte McFarland, History, The University of Chicago, Sands in a Whirlwind: Paiutes, Settlers, and Contestations over Mobility in the Great Basin

Jedediah Rogers, White Mesa Community, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, and University of Utah Press, An Indigenous History of the Aniknuche Incarceration (the Posey War)

Richard Saunders, Library / History, Southern Utah University, Bibliography of Utah Territorial Imprints, 1849-1895

Sarah Sears, History, University of California, Berkeley, Negotiating Nature: Diplomacy, Community, and Environment in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

 

Independent Research and Creative Works Award

 

Melissa Bailey, Carson National Forest: A 'Land Ethic' For Our Times

Antonie Dvorakova, Underlying Principles of Economic Development Recommendations and Accomplishments regarding the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Nation in Montana

Martin Nekola, Czech Communities in the Southwest and the Mountain States

Robin Patten, Alice Eastwood's Botanical Expeditions 1892 and 1895

Chris Verdone, Integrated Taxonomy of the C. Californica Species Group

 

Interdisciplinary Studies Grant

 

Richard Watt (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Andrew Fry (Chemical Engineering), and Brad Geary and Matt Madsen (Plant and Wildlife Sciences), Production of Renewable Biofuels to Enhance Economic Productivity of Western Lands

 

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler BYU Faculty Award

 

Kenneth Alford, Church History and Doctrine, The Age of Innocence in Utah: Young Ellen Kinney’s Adventures on the Overland Trail and in Salt Lake City, 1854–1856

Christopher Karpowitz, Political Science, Western States Survey 2024

C. Riley Nelson, Department of Biology, Stoneflies in Winter, Genomic Differentiation of Cryptic Species

Jeffrey Nokes, History, Lesson Resources for Teaching about the Fremont Culture and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah

Ryan Stewart, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Enhancing sustainable Pinus edulis pine nut harvesting in the Interior West through predictive cone-yield modeling

Fred Woods, Church History and Doctrine, Saints by State BYU Website Project (New Mexico)

 

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Award 

Matthew Babcock, History & Political Science, University of North Texas at Dallas, Frontiers of War and Peace: Antonio Cordero and Hispanic-Indigenous Relations in the Southwest

William Holly, History, University of Idaho, The Mountain is Part of Us: Tourism, Community, and American Indian Sacred Land in Northern Arizona since 1969

Katie Richards, Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Ceramics, Food, and Social Identity among the Fremont People of the Southwest/Great Basin

George Rozsa, American Indian Studies, California State University, Fresno, The Las Vegas Water War

Jennifer Watt, Environment, Society, and Sustainability, University of Utah, A High Resolution Record of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks from Whitebark Pine Forests of the Northern Rocky Mountains

Michael Weeks, History/Geography, University of Central Oklahoma, Mountain Biking in the Modern American West: Environment, Community, and Culture

Tom Zoellner, English, Chapman University, Once There Was a River

 

Public Programming Award 

 

Better Days, Utah Women Making History Day

Boise Art Museum, Inc., James Castle: Silent Perspective

BYU Global Women’s Studies, BYU Women at 150

BYU Museum of Peoples and Cultures, Connecting with Iosepa Exhibition

BYU Plant & Wildlife Sciences, BYU Rangeland Garden: Enhancing Education and Stewardship

BYU Scandinavian Studies, Crossings and Crossroads: Norwegian Immigrants, The Intermountain West, and Beyond

Camp Floyd State Park, Camp Floyd State Park's History Day Camps

DEEEP-Colorado, Dominguez-Escalante Expedition Education Project (DEEEP)

Montana Historical Society, Montana History Conference

Mormon History Association, The Mormon History Association 60th Annual Welcome Reception: Ogden, A Living History

Mountains and Mesas Region of America 250-Colorado 150, "Southwest Colorado in 40(ish) Stories"

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

Nevada Museum of Art, Public Programs to Accompany the Art of Judith Lowry

Salazar Rio Grande del Norte Center, Adams State University, 2026 Rio Grande State of the Basin Symposium

 

Research Award for BYU Upper Division and Graduate Students

 

Madison Brown, Biology, Responses of Microbial Communities Associated with Native and Invasive Plants to Stressors Facing Utah’s Wetlands

Curtis Garlick, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Improving Rangeland Seeding Success with a Novel Seed Drill

Kyle Garrett, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, An Evaluation of Novel Hazing and Deterrent Methods for Bears

Emma Green, Anthropology, Archaeology and the Public

Zeb Mendenhall, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Interspecific Dynamics of Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis) and Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) in the Ruby Mountains of Nevada

Andrew Sevy, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Determining Densities of Wild Mustangs: Using Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems to Estimate Population Numbers of Wild Horse Herds

Benjamin Williams, Design and Photography, College of Fine Arts and Communications, "NO VACANCY: Hotels of the American West"

 

Research Award for Off-Campus Upper Division and Graduate Students

Ri Corwin, Biology, Gehring and Johnson Labs, Northern Arizona University, Carbon Dynamics of Fungally-Colonized Root Litter

Analiesa Delgado, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Beyond Boarding School Walls: Education, Kinship, and Empire in the Northern Paiute Homeland

Oscar Godinez-Avila, History, Colorado State University, Spiritual Borderlands: Community, Healing, and Faith in Hispanic Northern Colorado

Kaycie Haller, History, The State University of New York at Albany, Environmental Imaginaries of Water and Wasteland: The Navajo Nation’s Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933 to 1941

Makoto Hunter, History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Subversive Sex Makes for Strange Bedfellows: Plural Wives and Prostitutes in Monogamous America, 1852–1946

Jacob Matney, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Sex and Stress Hormone Analysis in Narrow-headed Gartersnakes (Thamnophis rufipunctatus)

Maggie McNulty, History, University of Colorado Boulder, Legacy of Polluting: A History of Environmental Injustice in Denver’s Most Polluted Zip Code

Alex Miller, History & Philosophy, Montana State University, Tools for Grassroots Recreationists: How the Outdoor Industry Entered the Environmental Movement, 1980-2016

Bethany Miller, Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Fremont Standardization and Specialization: A Case Study of Ivie Creek Black-on-White Painted Bowls

Sean Nelson, History, Colorado State University, Lodges and Legacies: The Influence of Freemasonry on Colorado’s Growth and Identity from Territory to State, 1859-1900

James Paules, History, University of Arizona, Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Forest Service Policy and the Southwest Uplands, 1900-1930

Samuel Reitenour, History, University of Texas at El Paso, Courtesy Is Cash: A History of the Tourist Economy in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Isaac Richards, Communication Arts and Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, Cabin Culture: Stephen L Richards and the Consecration of Latter-day Saint Vacation Properties

Margaret Sutton, History, University of Notre Dame, Reborn on Skis: Dolores LaChapelle and the Spiritual World-Making of Euro-Americans in the Rocky Mountain West, 1945-2007

Morgan Thompson, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Expanding the Use of External-accelerometry to Understand Space Use and Hunting Behaviors of a Threatened Highly-aquatic Colubrid: Narrow-headed Gartersnakes (Thamnophis rufipunctatus)

Benjamin Wiebe, Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Predicting tree water deficit with satellite thermal data in southwestern Colorado

 

Visiting Fellows

 

Daniel Herman, History, Central Washington University, Legacy of Reform: The Inner West and American Politics, 1890-1988

Christy Spackman, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Tightening the Jell-O Belt: Food, Faith, and Dietary Friction in the Intermountain West

 

Butler Young Scholar Award

 

John Sproul, Biology, New Species Discovery and Evolutionary Genomics of Alpine Insects