Recent Redd Center-funded Awards

Clarence Dixon Taylor Awards

This was announced in our 2023 annual report but mistakenly omitted from newsletters. The Redd Center offered four Clarence Dixon Taylor Awards in 2023:

• Newell Boyd Knight was awarded $5,000 for Uncle Jesse: The Vision to See–The Courage to Do. The Story of Jesse Knight, Utah Mining Magnate 1845–1921 (West Jordan, UT: Pick & Pen Publishing, 2021).
• Ben Abbott was awarded $1,500 for the Utah Lake Symposium: The Ecology, Management, and Future of Our Lake.
• Jared Tamez was awarded $1,000 for Utah Lake: Above and Below (Provo Library art exhibit, 2023).
• Amelia England and Karin Anderson were awarded $750 for Utah Lake Stories: Reflections on a Living Landmark (Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, 2023).
  

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.

• Mary Lou Fulton Conference Awards (Award for best student posters dealing with the Intermountain West)
  • Winter 2024
    
    • 1st place
      • Kirsten Sanders (Geography), “Investigating the Potential Toxic Dust Pool Generated by the Shrinking of the Great Salt Lake.”
    • 2nd place
      • Neal Anderson (Anthropology), “Ceramic Circulation Circa AD 1000-1200.”
    • 3rd place
      • Maya Watkins (Anthropology), “Fremont Anthropomorphic Head Adornment in Clear Creek Canyon Rock Art.”

BYU English Symposium

• Best Paper in Western American Studies
  • 1st place
    • Emma Fox, “‘The History of Every Country Begins in the Heart of a…Woman’: Willa Cather’s Reclamation of the Female Immigrant through Edenic Western Narratives.”
  • 2nd place (tied)
    • Talia McKinne, “‘Here is All of Life’: Transplantation, Roots, and Japanese Gardening in Toyo Suyemoto’sI Call to Remembrance.”
    • Abigail Overson, “Shock Appeal: How the Coen Brothers Make Penetrating Political Statements to an Opposing Audience.”

BYU History Department Student Awards

• Bertis L. and Anna E. C. Embry Award in Global Latter-day Saint History
  • Alana Tutasi, “A Better Tomorrow: The Immigration Story of Tevita Fonuakihevaha Latu”
• Eugene E. Campbell Award in Utah History
  • Beverley Vermuelen, “The Community Structure of the Smoot Household: Utah Territory, 1856–1859”
• Fred R. Gowans Award in 19^th American West History
  • Emma Barlow, “‘It Is Good, We Will Sign’: Kanosh and the Mystery of the 1865 Spanish Fork Treaty,”
• American Indian Studies Indigenous History Award
  • George Smith, “Geronimo: Object of Conquest and Symbol of Freedom.”

• Best Indigenous Studies Awards (given annually in honor of Northwestern Shoshone historian Mae Timbimboo Parry to recognize scholarly excellence in Indigenous studies presented or published in the preceding year)
  • Erika Marie Bsumek, The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau (University of Texas Press, 2023)

Native American Literature Symposium

• Beatrice Medicine Awards in American Indian Studies
  • Best Published Monograph
    
    • Chadwick Allen, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
  • Best Published Essay
    • Kirby Brown, "Disturbing the Peace: Genre, Gender, Jurisdiction, and Justice in the Short Fiction of Ruth Muskrat Bronson," in Susan Bernardin, ed., The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West (Routledge, 2022)

• Charles Redd Award for Best Paper on the Politics of the American West
  • Muhammad Usman Amin Siddiqi and Erika Allen Wolters (Oregon State University) “Group Identities and Divide in Public Preferences for Energy and Water Resource Management Policy Approaches in the American West.”

Publications from Past Redd Center Awards

 2025 Awards Cycle