Recent Redd Center-funded Awards

Publication Grants

The Redd Center regularly awards publication grants to support presses publishing books on the American West. Presses use these subventions for a variety of purposes such as including additional images or maps, improving production quality, or lowering list price. Below are new books that have been supported by recent Redd Center publication grants.

 

Yolonda Youngs, Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023

 

Senior Seminar/Capstone Project Grant 

The Redd Center offers senior seminar/capstone project grants to support students who are writing papers on some aspect of the American West.

In 2023, Zoe Eldredge was awarded a Senior Seminar/Capstone Project Grant for her research on unique aspects of the English language in Park City, Utah.

 

2023 Clarence Dixon Taylor Award 

The Clarence Dixon Taylor Award recognizes outstanding scholarship about central Utah, specifically Utah, Carbon, and Wasatch counties.

Christian Wright, Carbon County USA: Miners for Democracy in Utah and the West. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020.

 

External Association Awards

Every year the Redd Center provides funding to sponsor awards administered by a number of organizations. This is a powerful way to extend the benefits of Redd Center resources beyond the scope of what our limited staffing allows us to administer.

BYU College of Family, Home and Social Sciences

• Mary Lou Fulton Conference Awards (Award for best student posters dealing with the Intermountain West)
  • Winter 2023
    • 1st place: Kirsten Sanders, Abigail Henrie, and Autumn Welling, Geography
      
      • “The Disappearing Lake: Investigating the Shrinking of the Great Salt Lake and Links with PM2.5 and PM10 Air Pollution”
    • 2nd place: Kyle Bird, Geography
      
      • “Dendroarchaeology: Building a Millennium-Length Climatic Context for the Fremont Culture.”
    • 3rd place: Sierra Cutler, Hannah Johnston, and Adam Chilvers, Geography
      
      • “Murky Water: Investigating Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Turbidity of Strawberry River and Reservoir using Landsat and Drone Imagery”
    • 4th place: Abigail Henrie and Kirsten Sanders, Geography
      
      • “Investigating the Toxic Heavy Metal Content of Soils and Grass in Urban Parks using Hyper-spectral Analysis”

Native American Literature Symposium

• Beatrice Medicine Awards in American Indian Studies
  • Best Published Monograph
    • Lisa Tatonetti, Written by the Body: Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
  • Best Published Essay
    • Laura Furlan, “The Archives of Deborah Miranda's Bad Indians.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 33 (Spring-Summer 2021): 27-54.

Western Political Science Association

• Charles Redd Award for Best Paper on the Politics of the American West
  • Paige Pellaton, University of California, Davis
    • “Are You Qualified for This Position? The Influence of Career Congruence on Legislative Committee Assignments.”

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Publications from Past Redd Center Awards

 

 

Alex Howe, now a PhD fellow at Utah State University, was awarded a Research Award for Off-Campus Upper division and Graduate Students in 2019. Recently, a publication that came from his funded research was published: “Comparing Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for Burn Severity Mapping in Western North America. Remote Sensing 14 (October 2022).

 

 

Read the publication here: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14205249

 

Award cycle

Applications are due March 15, 2024.

Each year these funding opportunities support Western-focused research, programming and events, publications, and other activities across the world.

 There are specific categories for students and faculty (at BYU and Off-Campus anywhere), independent scholars, public institutions and programming initiatives, etc. Priority is given to research on the Intermountain regions Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming. All disciplines (history, literature, sociology, geology, botany, range science, etc., literally any discipline or approach) are eligible as long as the proposed work will increase understanding about the region.

 Follow the link for further information and application instructions: reddcentergrants.byu.edu

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Religion in the West Seminar

In June 2023, the Redd Center hosted a seminar on religion in the American West. Participants brought papers to workshop for a forthcoming anthology edited by Todd Kerstetter (Texas Christian University) and Fred Woods (BYU) as our eighth Redd Center anthology.

Participants included:

• Lisa Barnett, Asst. Professor of American Religious History, Phillips Theological Seminary
  • “Varieties of Peyote Religious Experience in the American West: Permutations of Indigeneity and Christianity among Otoe-Missouria Peyotists”
• Rebekah Crowe, Associare Professor of History, Wayland Baptist University
  • “Branch Davidians, ca 1983-1993” 
• Brandi Dennison, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Florida
  • “Spirituality, Secularism, and Nature:  Landscape Architecture’s Legacy in Boulder, Colorado, 1910-1968”
• Kristine Gunnell, Research Affiliate, UNCLA Center for the Study of Women
  • “Financing Social Change: The Daughters of Charity Foundation and Catholic Efforts to Disrupt Poverty through Education” 
• Reilly Hatch, Instructor (PhD), Weber State University/Davis High School
  • “A Relic of Gadianton:  Mormon Settler Colonialism and the Posey War of 1923” 
• Andrea Johnson, Associate Professor of History, California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • “Pentecostalism in the American West” 
• Leroy Myers, Jr., Independent Scholar (PhD)
  • “Religion and the First Black Migration Movement to the American West, 1875-1900”                 
• Jennifer Koshatka Seman, Lecturer in Histoyr, Metropolitan State University of Denver
  • “Border Crossing Religion in the Turn-of-the-Century West:  Spiritism, Spiritualism, and Curandismo” 
• Paulee Shakespear, Independent Scholar
  • “Rocking the Cradle, Ruling the World:  The Oneida Stake Academy’s Legacy of Educating Religious Women” 
• Joseph Stuart, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University
  • “Both a refuge and a strength”:  Salt Lake City’s African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1891-1976” 
• Nathaniel Wiewora, Associate Professor of History, Harding University
  • “That wonderful land which Mormonism…claims as its own:  The Antebellum Evangelical Response to Mormon Westward Migration”

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